Apps for managing your Classroom

With a wealth of apps available to help you with the day-to-day management of your classroom, here are just a few of my favourites to get you started:

• Idoceo - idoceo allows you to keep track of multiple classes, students, their grades, contact information, notes, annotations and seating plans. It allows you to add icons, text, comments and colour to any cell, add unlimited columns, unlimited rows and pages as well as record audio and video and attach them to each student. The app also has a Random Name Selector built in.
• Too Noisy - Anyone who has attempted to keep the noise levels under control of a group of youngsters will appreciate this simple, fun and engaging app. This fun app allows the teacher to monitor the noise levels in the classroom.
• Classroom Timer Pro - A Simple Fun Timer, designed for teachers or anyone else who needs to set timed tasks for groups of children in a classroom or similar environment. 
• Hat - Hat by Cool Classroom Software is an application that allows teachers to randomly choose a name from a list of names, or an item from a list of items. HAT stored up to 10 different lists, and can be set to remember the names or items that have already been drawn.
  
• Random Name Selector Pro - A Fun classroom management tool for Teachers, that will engage and entertain students. The Random Name Selector is a Fun (and fair) way to select students for that special task or to answer that all important question.
• ClassDojo - ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Teachers can use this app to give students realtime feedback while in class and Parents can now view their child's progress via the ClassDojo app via a special invitation code.
• Stick Pick for iPhone - Pick a student at random just by giving your device a shake or tapping the screen. Stick Pick suggests question starters for learners at different levels and also records how well students respond during classroom discussions. If a student is consistently scoring near the top or bottom, simply change the level so students aren't bored or frustrated. Depending on students' levels of English proficiency, they might be asked simple yes-or-no questions or to elaborate in longer sentences.
• TeacherKit - TeacherKit is an iPad application that helps teachers organize their classes and manage students' attendance, seating plans, grades, and behaviours. TeacherKit allows you to organise all your classes, Track student attendance, Track student behaviour, Record student grades,  Create seating plans, and add notes to lessons.

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