What we would want to know before trusting a tool with a classroom or a caseload.
How Much Do the Educator Tools Cost?
Nothing to start: creating an account is free, your classes, rosters, notes and the letter season board cost nothing to keep, and the first run of every tool is on us, once each for the life of your account: a curriculum in The Syllabus! Planner, a grading job of up to ten students and its comment pass in The Rubric! Studio, a letter in The Letter! Desk, and a School Profile, a transcript audit and a sign-off draft on the counselor side, plus five messages a week with Leonardo, EduFinder's AI, on both hubs. One Pro Membership at $39 per month (USD) runs every tool as often as your classes need: as many curricula as you plan, no per-page charge in The Rubric! Studio, as many letters as you draft, both Counsel! Desk documents again, whole-class grading from a single class stack, the Class Insight Brief and the week re-plan it feeds, Score by Hand, Draft All Ready across a letter season, and Leonardo every day. It is one price, the same for a teacher, a counselor, a student, or a parent. The caseload board is part of Your Team, so invitations, consent answers, private messages, every student who confirms, the Needs Attention queue, the Student Packet, Your Calendar, and Your Weekly Brief need no membership. Gradebook downloads are free too, everything you already made stays yours to read, export, and print, and a student answering your assignment or brag-sheet link never pays.
Do I Need My School's Approval or an Institutional Account?
No. There is no institutional account, no waitlist, no application, and no procurement cycle: any EduFinder account works, and one teacher or one counselor can start alone, tonight, with no IT ticket and no district pilot. There is also no roster upload and no directory sync. You type or paste your own class roster, a caseload grows only as students answer your invitations with a yes, and the tools operate under your institution's direction with you as the decision-maker, so your school's student-data policies apply exactly as they always have.
Can I Publish and Share What I Make?
Yes. What EduFinder makes for your account is yours, for any lawful purpose: publish your school profile and give every counselor the same copy, share a curriculum or rubric with your department, and send letters under your own name. Our Terms of Service say so in plain words, with examples, under What You Make Is Yours.
Does the AI Replace My Judgment?
No. The Rubric! Studio drafts a score and a rationale for each criterion, and you decide the final grade. The Syllabus! Planner hands you a draft to customize, not a mandate. The Letter! Desk and The Counsel! Desk draft only from your own interview answers, and you review and own every word that goes out under your name. The four controls that reach many things at once each stop one step short of acting: Accept All High-Confidence finalizes only the rows you took and leaves every one of them open to change afterwards, Draft All Ready writes drafts and emails nobody and marks nothing sent, Draft My Sign-Off fills only the courses you left blank and records nothing until you press Record Decision, and Leonardo, EduFinder's AI, turns every suggestion into a card that does nothing until you approve it.
Is My Students' Work Safe? What about FERPA?
Student work and anything you write about a student stay private in your account, are never used to train models, ours or an AI provider's, and are deleted when you delete your account. Every educator tool is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction. On the counselor side there is a second gate: nothing about a student reaches your caseload board until that student answers your invitation with a yes.
Do the Three Classroom Tools Work Together?
Yes. Keep a class in your account (a name and a roster) and all three share it: The Syllabus! Planner links its curriculum to the class, The Rubric! Studio copies its roster onto a new grading job instead of pasting names, and The Letter! Desk starts a letter from one of its students pre-filled, with the work you graded and your dated notes offered as evidence. Every assessment in a curriculum also builds into a grading job with one click, scan-gradable written work as questions plus a rubric scored from scans and live-graded work as a task brief plus a rubric scored by hand, and when that curriculum is linked to one of your classes the handoff carries the roster with it, so the job opens with a row per student already there. Once half of that class is finalized, the grading job loops back the other way: under a finished Class Insight Brief, Add to Next Week's Plan drops the reteach mini lesson into the curriculum and Re-Plan Week N rebuilds that week around it. Every job links back. Each tool still works on its own; the class just enters the course, roster, and student once.
Can the Syllabus! Planner Plan Individual Class Days?
Yes. Every week in the pacing calendar has a Draft Daily Plans button that expands that week into one plan per class meeting, each with a timed agenda, an objective, the materials to have on hand, and any homework. Draft only the weeks you are about to teach, and redraft any week whenever the plan changes. A week can also be re-planned from the other end: under a finished Class Insight Brief in The Rubric! Studio, Re-Plan Week N rebuilds that week around what the class actually missed. A re-plan replaces the daily plans that week already shows, and nothing is re-planned unless you press the button.
Can It Grade a Whole Class at Once?
Yes. Drop the whole set in as one class stack, a single PDF or a pile of photos, and the studio groups the pages by student. Nothing is graded until you press Confirm Groups. It then drafts a score and a rationale for every criterion, lets you tick Sort by Confidence so the least certain papers come first, rescores whatever you have not reviewed yet against your own first three finalized answers whenever you ask and never changes a score you already recorded, and lets you accept the confident ones sixty rows at a time. You can refresh the comments whose scores moved, release grades to the students who submitted online with an account, download a Google Classroom Sheet or a Generic Gradebook CSV, and read a Class Insight Brief once half the class is finalized. Work no scanner can read is scored by hand in the same table, one blank row per student, with no student work stored. Every recorded grade is still the one you decided.
Can I See an Example Before I Sign In?
Yes. The Syllabus! Planner has a full sample curriculum, The Rubric! Studio has a full sample grading job, and The Letter! Desk has a full sample letter, all viewable with no signup.
I Am a Counselor, Not a Classroom Teacher. Does This Fit Me?
Yes. Counselors get their own hub: a caseload board for the students who invite you in, plus The Counsel! Desk for counselor recommendations and the School Profile that travels with every transcript. It is the home screen for an account that declares Counselor, and every hub stays reachable by URL from any account, so a counselor who also teaches works from one login.
What Do I See about a Student on My Caseload?
Only what that student confirms, and only after they confirm it. A new invitation covers three things at once. From Find Schools on The Roster! Board: the school names on the matches they generated, when they generated them, the short description saved beside each school, and the published cost and outcome figures saved with it. From The Resolve! Planner: their AP or IB course plan itself, the same page they read. From the college list on that same Roster board: the schools on it, and beside each one the application platform, the rounds and deadlines they entered and the round they mean to use, the status they set, their own application checklist, and the decision and deposit dates. Answered questions always arrive as a count, never as an answer. Each addition was its own separate yes, so a link keeps sharing exactly what its student agreed to: one confirmed before course plans joined shares the matches alone, one confirmed before application tracking joined shares the matches and the plan, and a decline of either addition is final for the link. Their essays, chance reports, buckets, notes, and AI suggestions on that board stay private, and so does everything in their SAT practice, their Pursuit roadmap, and their Aid playbook. They can stop sharing at any time.
What Does The Counsel! Desk Write?
Two documents only the counseling office writes, plus the board that works the season around them. The counselor recommendation is drafted from a guided interview, in your voice and from your answers, and you cut, rewrite, and sign it. The School Profile is a school level document that never names a student: your curriculum model, your grading scale, whether you rank, the courses actually on your schedule, and the context that keeps a transcript from being misread. The Desk now hosts your letter season itself, the same board a teacher works from: every request in one place, Draft All Ready across the ones whose materials are in, and Remind Everyone Missing Materials, which drafts the whole pass and sends only the reminders you approve. The student intake on a counselor-authored request is called the Senior Questionnaire, because the questions a counseling office asks are not the ones a subject teacher asks; a teacher's own request still says brag sheet. The Desk is not the three classroom tools. A counselor who also teaches opens those from the same account. Nothing here emails anyone, releases a grade, or records a decision without your own click, and nothing is shared that a student did not agree to.
Can a Student's Parent See What I Record?
Only the decision you record on a course plan, and only when that student has both widened your link to their plan and confirmed a family link with that parent. In that one case the parent sees your email address, your Approve or Reject call on each recommended course, your comments and overall note, and the date you recorded it. That is the only place the two links touch. You never see anything through a family link, a parent never sees your caseload board, and nothing else crosses between them.
What Is Leonardo, and What Does It Do without Asking Me?
Leonardo is EduFinder's AI. It opens in a side drawer on both hubs. It also writes the first drafts inside the tools (a letter, a curriculum, a School Profile, a score for each answer), and each draft is yours to change. When you ask it something, it reads only what your account already shows and proposes actions you approve. It never sees what a student says to Leonardo on their own account. It answers by citing what it read and turns any suggestion into a card that does nothing until you press approve. A reminder suggestion lists exactly who would be emailed before a second click sends it; a suggestion to ask students to share their application tracking emails them as soon as you approve it. Beside it, Your Calendar gives each hub one link to paste into the calendar you already keep, and Your Weekly Brief arrives on Monday saying what needs you that week and stays quiet when nothing does. Nothing in any of the three emails anyone, releases a grade, or records a decision without your own click.