PrepPanel: Classroom Manager

An all-in-one classroom manager with smart student picker, group generator, seating chart, timer, pacing tracker, and more

PrepPanel: Your All-In-One Classroom Engagement Toolkit Need district approval? IT review & privacy docs at preppanelclassroom.com/it Stop juggling separate student picker apps, timer tabs, group makers, and spreadsheets. PrepPanel puts your roster, participation tracker, group generator, seating chart, mastery tracker, pacing system, discussion protocols, and timer into one side panel, so you can spend less time managing tools and more time teaching. Built by a former classroom teacher. Aligned with research-based best practices from Hattie's Visible Learning and the Modern Classrooms Project. Queue-Based Student Picker with Built-In Wait Time Cold calling gets everyone involved but answers suffer. Volunteers give great answers but only a few students talk. PrepPanel solves the tradeoff. Students see who's "Up Next" and "On Deck," giving them time to prepare a thoughtful response before they're called on. No surprise gotchas — just quality responses from everyone. 30+ Discussion Protocols with Timers Break out of your Think-Pair-Share rut. PrepPanel includes a library of ready-to-go discussion formats — Speed Sharing, Mini Socratic Seminar, Hot Seat, Question Storm, and more — each with a suggested timer and group size. Keep discussions fresh without the mental overhead of planning them. Smart Group Generator with Custom Rules Create balanced pairs or groups of any size in seconds. Set "Always with" and "Never with" rules, diversify by ability level, or group by mastery on a specific learning objective. Auto-identify students needing reteach and create separate intervention groups. No manual sorting, no drama. Drag-and-Drop Seating Chart with Auto-Assign Build your room layout with table groups, then let PrepPanel auto-seat students using your grouping rules and ability levels. Save multiple layouts as presets and swap between them. Creating a seating chart shouldn't take 20 minutes of mental Tetris. Participation Tracker That Measures Quality Log the quality of each student's response, not just a tally mark. Use default labels (Met, Exceeded, Struggled) or create your own. View reports filtered by class, date range, or status. Equity insights show call frequency and response patterns across your roster so you can make data-informed decisions, not gut calls. Real-Time Mastery Evidence Tracker Gradebooks track summative scores. PrepPanel tracks formative evidence in real time. Create learning objectives, assign mastery levels per student, log timestamped evidence, and know exactly who needs help on what, backed by data, not guesses. Mastery data feeds directly into grouping and pacing. Self-Paced Student Roadmaps with Live Sync Build customizable unit roadmaps with customizable tiers like Learn, Practice, Mastery Check, and Aspire tiers. Students move through content at their own pace while you monitor progress and flag interventions. Includes an optional public pacing board with real-time sync and project it to your classroom display so students always know where they are. Learning Targets Display Keep your learning objective visible to students at all times, right in the side panel. Supports multi-subject mode for teachers who teach multiple preps in one period. Remote Clicker Use a second device (phone, tablet, or laptop) as a wireless remote to advance through students, log participation, skip, or undo, without being tethered to your computer. No app install needed; just open a web page and enter the room code. Timer & Stopwatch Always-accessible countdown timer and stopwatch docked at the bottom of the panel. Customize presets or set any time. Runs in the background as you navigate between features. Why Teachers Use PrepPanel: -Solves the participation tradeoff: get the reach of cold calling with the quality of volunteers -Groups and seating charts that actually respect classroom dynamics -Formative mastery tracking that connects to grouping and pacing -Discussion protocols ready to go — no planning required -Participation data that shows growth patterns, not just totals -Everything in one side panel — no more tab-switching -All data stays on your device. No student accounts. No sign-ups. No ads. FERPA-friendly by design. Free during beta. Install PrepPanel today and make research-based, high-quality classroom engagement the standard, not the exception.