What we would want to know before trusting a tool with a classroom or a caseload.
How Much Do the Educator Tools Cost?
Every one of them is free for every signed-in account: unlimited curricula in The Syllabus! Planner, no page limits in The Rubric! Studio, unlimited letters in The Letter! Desk, a caseload board with no cap on the students who confirm, and both Counsel! Desk documents. There is no paid tier.
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.
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.
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. Scan-gradable written assessments in a curriculum also build into grading jobs with one click, and 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.
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 two services at once. From The Shortlist! Builder: the school names on the list they generated, when they generated it, 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. Answered questions always arrive as a count, never as an answer. A link confirmed before course plans joined keeps sharing the shortlist alone until that student approves the addition from their own dashboard, and a decline of that addition is final for the link. Nothing from their essays, their SAT practice, their Pursuit roadmap, or their Aid playbook ever reaches you, and they can stop sharing at any time.
What Does The Counsel! Desk Write?
Two documents only the counseling office writes. 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 is not the three classroom tools. A counselor who also teaches opens those from the same account.
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.
