Teacher Aide Pro

I have never written a review on the AppStore, but this one deserves all the praise I can muster. It is an indispensable app and accomplishes what only others claim to do; I know. I’ve tried them all. I am a college professor with over 25 years of experience and this is the best assessment tool I have ever owned. When Easy Grade Pro was bought out years ago, I gave up hope of finding anything so powerful as TeacherAide Pro. Its attendance features, ability to import photos, the seamless integrating with the developers other apps—plus the developer has nearly weekly updates. I pay the subscription from my own money—it’s that good. If the developer quits, I’m retiring!

It’s like the developers of this app covertly observed my classroom for the last 10 years and created a tool to solve all my problems. Want to assign a grade to a group then have that grade populate out to each individual student (and have the grades copy over to Google Classroom)? Done! Want to be able to customize attendance for hybrid learning? Done! Need a place to record comments for random stuff that happens with students on a given day? Done! Need to have two different seating charts? Done! It’s all in here. $2 a month? Take. My. Money.

This was a wonderful app. It’s been very useful for keeping track of scores and assignments on my iPad-especially as a combo teacher during the ‘remote Learning’ age. I love the display, and the ability to tailor each assignment and class. However, after I upgraded to the premium account, (paying $2 a month) it began glitching. I specifically wanted the Google Classroom sync function so that I could transfer grades between the two. It worked great for two days. Since then it crashes and quits when I try to import or export scores with google classroom. I’ve reloaded, restarted, and upgraded my iPad software. This is the reason I chose to upgrade and pay the monthly fee. So I’m hoping the developers will fix this bug soon as the app is otherwise very very helpful.

This app is very helpful and innovative! Though the best thing about this app is how helpful and personable the developer is. Not only did he reply to my multiple emails right away, but he was able to fix any problems on his end as well as help to explain how to solve the issues I was having. Any problems he encountered on his end after I emailed him an issue I was having, he made the necessary corrections on the next app update. Thank you Glen! Keep up the good work! Definitely worth the subscription!

Again. I love the app. but do you think you could make maybe a website or another app to where our students would be able to check their grades out of school ? sort of like a grade portal . i’d really enjoy that and they've been asking about it also . thanks so much . please get back with me ❤️ again . love your apps . been using them for almost 6 years .

Out of the many apps I’ve researched, this is the one I used all year and was generally very happy with it. My one large complaint is limited number of classes you can upload. As a cluster teacher, I teach up to 15 classes in any given year. This app worked for me this year because I only had nine classes, but they don’t let you upload more than 10. Since I will have 13 classes next year this app will no longer work for me. I really hope they fix that soon!

I haven’t bought it yet. I ran into problems with my favorite program: teacher kit and I’m looking for something that can do the same. My biggest hurdle is I serve 24 classes in elementary schools and that might grow in the coming years. This means I would needs to pay for two of your programs. Might is already tight, but still this type of program helps me a lot.

TAP is the third grading app I’ve used and it definitely works much more smoothly for me. I’ve had very limited issues (VERY LIMITED) and the developer always gets back to me very quickly, and with a concise explanation or answer. I’ll continue to use TAP and continue to recommend it.

This is the best teacher app that I use daily in my class. Love that I can print or email reports to parents to keep them informed of student progress. And whenever I have had a problem, customer support has always responded quickly.

I’ve been looking for years for an attendance/grade book app. I couldn’t be happier with this one.

This was super well thought out for a high school teacher. However, in elementary or homeschooling it would be ideal to be able to edit the class list names.

Hi Just a suggestion but can you please make a way to add more attendance codes? I really need them. Thank you!

Amazing! It works fantastically such a life saver I totally recommend

I really like this app I just wish there was another app for the students to view their grade on their devices

I picked up TAP a few months ago as a solution to solve my district’s unrealistic and unreasonable demands to be in constant contact with parents and guardians about their student’s performance. Unfortunately, I’m an English teacher in high school, which means my students - pandemic related - are functionally 7.5th graders. If I spend 1 minute per student on the two assignments per week I’m supposed to produce and give feedback on, then I literally have negative time to spend. The math simply doesn’t work, so - like so many teachers - I’ve been dipping into my weekends since forever. BUT NO MORE! TAP is a one stop shop for all of it. Take attendance in seconds with the click of a button, develop seating charts through a simple and intuitive drag and drop interface, leave substitute attendance sheets and charts with a click and print tool, and - the tool that makes this monthly subscription REALLY worth its salt - the grade tracking and auto-message feature. You can designate a variety of grade categories and common performance indicators and their percentages (so EXCELLENT = 100%, ABOVE AVERAGE = 80%, and so on) across a variety of assignments, and then, WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON, email the whole - including any individual or class notes you took on the student - email it to parents on whatever interval you want. This has been a LIFE SAVER for me. I now enjoy my weekends with my wife and kids instead of sending a bunch of stupid emails that parents don’t read anyway. The graphic at the head of each report clearly depicts student performance at a glance, and THAT’S what parents respond to. To really squeeze the most out of this app - especially if you’re teaching English in middle or high school - consider subscribing also to Rubric Scorer 2. The import feature from that app ports grades and rubric descriptions into the assignments folder when you trigger the “Export to TAP” option from RS2. This cuts down on the hours and hours per week I used to spend painstakingly penciling the same comments over and over and over again on student work. Now, flip the script. Give students a visual breakdown of their quality performance, add a series of custom comments for rapid response, and collect the scores in TAP - by the way, RS2 also lets you send PDFs of the completed rubrics to parents and students, so you don’t have to worry about the transfer process. Ultimately, it all gets stored in your email server, so there’s no serious gap in the paper trail. After an initial setup in both apps, the time these two have saved me is in the dozens of hours since February ‘22. I’ve experimented with loads of these apps. The best, closest competitor is iDoceo - and that’s because they have an in-house submission tool, so you can get out from under whatever your district’s LMS is, if it’s burdensome and stupid (like Canvas!). But ultimately that app is just TOO COMPLEX. It can do just about anything that you’d ever want it to do as a teacher, but the setup process is too convoluted to be effective. TAP + RS2 is FAST, EASY, and SUPPORTS THE DEEP WORK OF TEACHING by cutting - literally in half - the amount of clerical nonsense teachers are expected to do by streamlining those processes.

How do I connect my phone and my iPad to the same gradebook

Why not add the Arabic language to the application like that in Andoride

Yes, the app does what it says it will do. Yes, it's relatively easy to import students. The really awesome thing is the customer support. Anybody who has used technology for more than five minutes understands that stuff happens. Nobody's fault sometimes, stuff just happens. The real test comes when the customer asks for help. How does the company respond? I asked for help and got an immediate response and rapid follow up from, what I believe to be, the entire customer service department. My problem was solved quickly and I was given lots of tips for the future. Just terrific folks. Well worth .99 a month.

I searched forever and this one had most of what I was dreaming up with a very realistic price. Create your own seating chart, photos with names, grading, attendance, and my FAVORITE PART.... excellent and easy behavior documentation. It it super customizable and allows you to have pretty PDF reports to print that have dates for those dreaded parent meetings. Nothing makes you look better in front of the principal than impeccable documentation!!

I use this for attendance, the random group generator, and random student selector. Saves me so much time. Plus the support provided by the develepor is outstanding.

I've really enjoyed using this app so far, but I have a few suggestions to make it even better. For one, I think there should be a togglable dark mode setting. Also, maybe for attendance colors and grade color-coding we should be allowed to pick any point on one of those color wheel thingies, not just one of 10 or 15 options.

Practical and super helpful

Just downloaded the app so I don't know all of the features yet, but it keeps crashing when I try to import students from Google classroom. I don't want to pay for a subscription if it continues to crash!!