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Three focused tools that give teachers their hours back:

draft a full curriculum with an AI-resistant assessment plan, grade a stack of in-class handwritten work against your own rubric with your final say on every score, and turn your real anecdotes into a recommendation letter only you could sign.

3 AI tools
1 Connected workflow
$0 Every tool
Trusted in classrooms12 schools

Hundreds of teachers and professors at schools like these plan, grade, and recommend with EduFinder's three teacher tools:

School names and marks belong to their respective institutions and do not imply endorsement or affiliation.

Your teaching week begins

Three tools, one workflow: plan the course, grade the work, and write the letters.

Plan

The Syllabus! Planner
Step 1 · Plan

Start from a complete draft, not a blank page.

A whole course is a brutal blank page. A short intake hands you a real starting point that stays yours to shape.

The Syllabus! Planner

A full sample curriculum, drafted from a short intake.

Answer a short multiple-choice intake and get a complete draft: a unit and lesson sequence, a week-by-week pacing calendar, and an assessment plan built around AI-resistant assessment design, anchored to AP, IB, Common Core, NGSS, or your own standards.

It is a customizable starting point, not a mandate. Revise it in plain language, then take the whole thing with you as a PDF.

Free for every signed-in account, with no limit on how many curricula you draft.

Explore the Planner

Open the tool See a sample curriculum

Grade

The Rubric! Studio
Step 2 · Grade

Grade the stack without losing the weekend.

In-class, handwritten work: essays, math, and diagrams, scored against your own rubric, consistently, all the way down the stack.

The Rubric! Studio

AI-assisted grading for in-class handwritten work.

Upload a stack of scans and your own rubric. The studio matches each paper to the right student, reads handwriting, math, and diagrams, and drafts a score with a rationale for every criterion.

It accelerates your scoring; it does not replace your judgment. You review every paper, adjust anything you disagree with, and the recorded grade is always yours.

Free for every signed-in account, with no page limits.

Explore the Studio

Open the tool See a sample grading job

Recommend

The Letter! Desk
Step 3 · Recommend

Write the letter only you could have written.

Recommendation season stacks twenty letters on one free period. A guided interview keeps every word grounded in what you actually saw.

The Letter! Desk

Grounded recommendation letters, drafted from your anecdotes.

A guided interview turns your real anecdotes into a full draft (a teacher's Common App evaluation, a counselor report, or a professor's grad-school letter) plus a candid coaching read of that draft.

Every paragraph cites which answers it came from, stock phrases get flagged, and thin spots become follow-up questions. You review and own every word; the desk never invents facts.

Free for every signed-in account, with no limit on how many letters you draft.

Explore the Desk

Open the tool See a sample letter

Every stack graded, every letter signed

The mechanical weight comes off; the teaching stays human.

Plan, Grade, and Recommend, on one class.

Keep a class once and the three tools share it.

Any written assessment in The Syllabus! Planner can be built into a ready-to-review grading job in The Rubric! Studio with one click, and the curriculum then tracks each job's grading status.

Keep a class (a name and a roster) and the connection goes further: a new grading job copies that roster instead of pasting names, and when you finish reviewing a student's grade, the row offers to draft their recommendation letter in The Letter! Desk, with that graded work and your dated notes carried along as evidence, described in words, never as a raw score.

Every tool still works on its own. A class just enters the course, the roster, and the student once, so nothing falls into the gap between planning, grading, and recommending.

Student work stays in your workspace.

Privacy & FERPA, in plain terms.

Scans, interview answers, and drafts stay private in your account. They are never used to train models, ours or an AI provider's, and they are deleted when you delete your account.

Every teacher tool is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction. You remain the decision-maker on every grade and every word that goes out under your name.

Free for every signed-in account.

Pricing that fits a classroom budget.

All three teacher tools are free: unlimited curricula, no page limits on grading, and as many letters as you draft.

No waitlist, no application, no institutional account. Any EduFinder account works.

Teacher reviews 5.0 average

Teachers at top schools, in their own words.

Five educators, three high school teachers and two college instructors, on the journey from the first unit plan to the final signed letter.

"I gave The Syllabus! Planner my course goals and a rough topic list, and it came back with a complete draft: the unit sequence, a week-by-week pacing calendar, and an assessment plan designed to hold up in the age of AI. Planning used to eat my whole August. Now I spend that time refining a draft instead of staring at a blank page."
Daniel R. History Teacher, Milton Academy · United States
"I photographed a stack of forty handwritten lab reports and uploaded the rubric I have used for years. The Rubric! Studio scored every page against my criteria, not some generic scale, and lined up the suggested marks for me to review. I accepted most, overrode a few, and kept the final say on every score."
Alicia G. AP Biology Teacher, Harvard-Westlake School · United States
"The Letter! Desk starts by asking for the real anecdotes, the moments I actually remember about a student. It shapes them into a reference that still sounds like me, then gives a coaching read on what the letter signals to an admissions reader. My references have never been this specific, and they take half the time."
Oliver H. Head of Sixth Form, Brighton College · United Kingdom
"The link between the two tools is the quiet superpower. I draft a written assessment in The Syllabus! Planner, and one click turns it into a grading job waiting in The Rubric! Studio, with the status tracked on both sides. Nothing falls into the gap between planning and grading anymore."
Priya N. Lecturer in Economics, Williams College · United States
"Every fall I write a wave of graduate school recommendations, and by the tenth letter they all risk sounding the same. The Letter! Desk pulls a distinct story out of my notes for each student and keeps the voice recognizably mine. The coaching read flagged two letters as warm but vague, and I fixed them before signing."
James T. Adjunct Instructor of Psychology, New York University · United States

Shared by EduFinder educators. Last names abbreviated for privacy.

Fair questions, straight answers.

What we would want to know before trusting classroom tools.

How much do the teacher tools cost?

All three are free for every signed-in account: unlimited curricula in The Syllabus! Planner, no page limits in The Rubric! Studio, and unlimited letters in The Letter! Desk. There is no paid tier.

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 drafts 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 teacher tool is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction.

Do the three 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. 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 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.

Do I need my school's approval or an institutional account?

No. There is no institutional account, no waitlist, and no application. Any EduFinder account works, and the tools operate under your institution's direction with you as the decision-maker.