Teacher Planner & Lesson Management Tool

Teaching is a balancing act. Between lesson planning, grading, parent communication, administrative tasks, and actually teaching - the organizational demands pile up fast. Most teacher planners are either too rigid or too basic, leaving you cobbling together spreadsheets, paper planners, and sticky notes just to stay on top of your week.

t0ggles gives teachers the planning and organization tools they actually need. Plan lessons across multiple classes on a single board, track student assignments and grading deadlines, collaborate with department colleagues, and reclaim the time you lose to administrative chaos - all without the complexity of dedicated school software. $5/month with every feature included.

#The Challenge: Why Teachers Need Better Planning Tools

Traditional teacher planners - paper or digital - assume a one-size-fits-all approach. But every teacher's reality is different:

You manage multiple classes with different needs. A high school teacher might have five periods of different subjects or levels. An elementary teacher handles all subjects for one class but with distinct lesson tracks. Switching between separate planners or apps for each class wastes time and creates blind spots.

Lesson planning is cyclical but not identical. You revisit units each year, but curriculum updates, student needs, and new resources mean you're constantly adapting. You need a system that stores your lesson frameworks while letting you modify them for each term.

Grading and assignments compound quickly. With dozens of students across multiple classes, tracking what's been submitted, what's been graded, and what feedback you've given becomes overwhelming. Paper systems can't keep up.

Collaboration with colleagues is fragmented. Department meetings generate action items. Shared curriculum requires coordination. Co-teaching demands synchronized planning. Email threads and shared drives make collaboration harder than it should be.

#How t0ggles Helps Teachers Stay Organized

#Multi-Project Boards: All Classes in One View

This is the feature that transforms teacher organization. Instead of maintaining separate planners for each class, t0ggles lets you manage multiple projects on a single board with color-coded visual separation.

Create a project for each class - "Period 1 Algebra" in blue, "Period 3 Geometry" in green, "Period 5 Algebra Honors" in purple. All your tasks, lesson plans, and deadlines appear on your main board, filterable and sortable, but visually distinct.

When you plan your week, you see everything at once. What lessons are scheduled for Monday? What assignments need grading by Friday? What parent conferences are coming up? No more flipping between planners trying to piece together your schedule.

Need to focus on one class? Focus Mode filters the board to a single project with one click. Deep planning without distractions, quick context switching without losing the big picture.

#Calendar View: Your Week at a Glance

Teachers live by the calendar. Calendar view shows all your tasks, lessons, and deadlines across all classes in one visual layout. See what's happening today, this week, or the entire month.

Plan lessons by dragging and dropping them onto specific days. When a snow day disrupts your schedule, shift everything forward with a few clicks. The calendar adapts to your reality instead of forcing you to start over.

Reminders alert you before deadlines hit - when grades are due to the office, when report cards need to be finalized, when you need to prepare materials for next week's lab. Set them for the lead time you actually need.

Sync with Google Calendar to see t0ggles tasks alongside school meetings, IEP conferences, and professional development days. Two-way sync keeps everything updated automatically.

#AI Task Creation: From Ideas to Organized Plans

Lesson ideas strike at random moments - during a meeting, while reviewing curriculum, on the drive home. The gap between inspiration and captured plan is where great teaching ideas get lost.

t0ggles' AI task creation eliminates that gap. Type naturally:

"Create a unit on the American Revolution for Period 3: intro lesson Monday, primary source analysis Wednesday, group project next week, test on the 15th"

The AI parses this into structured tasks with due dates, class assignment, and logical sequencing. Jot down quick notes during a department meeting and let AI organize them into actionable tasks later.

The AI text assistant also helps write detailed lesson plans, summarize teaching resources, or draft parent communication. Spend less time on administrative writing and more time on instruction.

#Notes for Lesson Plans and Resources

Every teacher builds a library of resources - lesson outlines, activity instructions, rubrics, student accommodations, curriculum standards. Without a system, this knowledge lives in scattered files, binders, and browser bookmarks.

t0ggles' Notes give you unlimited documentation space organized in collapsible folders. Create a folder for each unit containing lesson plans, worksheets, and assessment rubrics. Build a "Student Resources" folder with accommodation notes and differentiation strategies.

Notes link to tasks, so your lesson materials stay connected to when you'll use them. Rich text editing supports images, tables, embedded files, and formatted instructions - everything you need for thorough lesson documentation.

#Task Templates: Repeatable Lesson Structures

Some lessons follow consistent patterns. Lab days require the same prep steps. Essay assignments need the same scaffolding. Unit tests follow a standard review-administer-grade cycle.

Task templates capture these patterns. Create a "Lab Day Prep" template with standard steps: prepare materials, set up stations, review safety procedures, grade lab reports. Generate tasks from the template whenever you schedule a lab - every step included, nothing forgotten.

For recurring lesson types, templates save hours of planning time while ensuring consistency. When you improve a process, update the template once and every future use reflects the change.

#Team Collaboration for Departments

Teaching might happen individually in the classroom, but planning is often collaborative. Department curriculum alignment, co-teaching arrangements, and shared resource development all require coordination.

Invite colleagues to your board with appropriate access levels. Department chairs see all classes for coordination. Co-teachers have full access to shared periods. Guest users with limited access work for student teachers or parent volunteers who need visibility into specific activities.

Comments with @mentions let you discuss specific tasks without email chains. Change history tracks who modified what, so collaborative planning has accountability. Real-time sync means everyone sees updates instantly.

#Teacher Workflows in t0ggles

#Weekly Lesson Planning

Create a "Teaching" board with a project for each class you teach. Use statuses that match your planning workflow: Ideas, Planning, Prepared, In Progress, Complete, Archive.

Sunday evening, open Calendar view to see your week. Tasks without dates sit in your Backlog. Drag lesson tasks onto specific days, arranging your teaching week visually. Switch to Kanban view during the week to track which lessons are prepared and which need materials.

Custom properties track curriculum standards alignment, resource links, and differentiation notes per lesson. Filter by "Standards = 8.EE.7" to see every lesson covering a specific standard.

#Assignment and Grading Tracking

Create assignment tasks with subtasks for each class period. "Chapter 5 Test" becomes the parent task, with subtasks like "Create test - Period 1", "Administer test", "Grade Period 1", "Enter grades", "Return to students".

Due dates cascade appropriately - the test is due Friday, grading completes Monday, grades entered by Tuesday's deadline. Task dependencies ensure you don't schedule grading before tests are administered.

Gantt view shows your grading workload across the term. See where deadlines stack up and adjust assignment schedules before you're overwhelmed.

#Unit Planning and Curriculum Mapping

For long-term planning, create projects for each unit rather than each class. "Unit 3: Civil War" becomes a project containing all lessons, activities, and assessments for that unit across your teaching assignments.

Notes store your unit overview, essential questions, and curriculum standards. Tasks break down into daily lessons and major assignments. When you teach the unit next year, duplicate the project and modify as needed - your successful structure preserved, improvements incorporated.

Link resources within notes: the primary source PDFs, the video clips, the interactive simulations. Everything connected to the lesson that uses it.

#What Teachers Need vs What t0ggles Delivers

What Teachers Need	How t0ggles Delivers
See all classes in one view	Multi-project boards with color-coded class projects
Plan lessons on a calendar	Calendar view with drag-and-drop scheduling
Track assignments and grading	Task tracking with due dates, subtasks, and dependencies
Store lesson materials	Notes with folders, linked to lesson tasks
Reuse lesson structures	Task templates for repeatable lesson patterns
Collaborate with department	Team access with real-time sync and comments
Never miss administrative deadlines	Reminders with Google Calendar integration
Reduce planning time	AI task creation from natural language

#Why Choose t0ggles Over Alternatives

Teachers have tried other planning tools. Here's how t0ggles compares:

vs Paper Planners: Paper can't search, reorder, or remind you of upcoming deadlines. You can't share a paper planner with co-teachers or duplicate last year's lessons. And when plans change mid-week, erasing and rewriting gets old fast.

vs Trello: Trello's simplicity becomes a limitation for multi-class planning. No native Calendar or Gantt views for seeing your week. No AI features for quick task capture. Separate boards for each class means no unified view of your workload.

vs Asana: Asana is built for corporate teams, not educators. The complexity of portfolios and custom workflows is overkill when you need to plan lessons. Pricing at $11/user is steep for teachers paying out of pocket.

vs Google Docs/Sheets: Flexible but requires building your system from scratch. No task management, no calendar integration, no templates. You end up maintaining multiple disconnected documents.

vs Planbook-style apps: Dedicated teacher planners often lock you into rigid structures. t0ggles adapts to your planning style - whether you think in weeks, units, or classes - without forcing a specific approach.

t0ggles hits the teacher sweet spot: structured enough to manage multiple classes professionally, flexible enough to adapt to your teaching style, and priced for educator budgets.

#Simple, Teacher-Friendly Pricing

Teachers already spend too much of their own money on classroom supplies. Your planning tools shouldn't strain your budget further.

$5 per user per month (billed annually) includes everything:

• Unlimited boards, projects, tasks, notes, and files
• AI task creation and text assistant
• Calendar, Kanban, List, and Gantt views
• Task dependencies for curriculum sequencing
• Google Calendar sync for schedule integration
• Board automations for repetitive tasks
• Team collaboration and guest access
• Task templates for repeatable lessons
• Reminders and notifications
• Quick search across all your content
• Full reports and analytics

For an individual teacher, that's $60/year total for a complete planning and organization system. For departments purchasing together, that's the same per-teacher cost with collaborative features included. No feature tiers. No upgrade walls. No surprises.

14-day free trial - set up your first class board before the new term begins.

#Get Started Today

Teaching demands enough of your energy without fighting disorganized planning systems. t0ggles gives you the clarity to see all your classes, the flexibility to plan your way, and the collaboration features to work effectively with colleagues - without the complexity or cost of enterprise software.

Start your free trial and bring order to your teaching workload.