LessonNote

Classroom lesson observation

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

iPad

LessonNote is an innovative classroom observation tool for documenting the flow of a lesson and its impact on students. Capture both quantitative and qualitative data: • Track who is talking to whom, when, and for how long. • Jot handwritten notes about what is being said and what students are doing. • Take photos of student work. • Capture time spent in different modalities: whole-class, individual work, group work. After a lesson, efficiently review your data for a student-focused conversation that improves teaching and learning. LessonNote is ideal for peer observation, coaching, instructional rounds, and of course for Lesson Study. For administrators, LessonNote improves on simple checklists or rating scales by helping document how lessons affect students—which is, ultimately, what teaching is all about. Read the End User License Agreement at http://lsalliance.org/LessonNote/LessonNote_End_User_License_Agreement.pdf

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• French, Thai, and Khmer localizations – machine translated. Please help us improve them! • Complete (?) Japanese translations • Timeline buttons to quickly jump to the first note and last note. • Show an alert if the user applies filters and nothing matches. • Edit the name of a lesson & its school/event from the home screen. • Non-pro users get a warning when they get to 14 notes, so casual experimentation doesn't lead them to use up their quota of free lessons. This warning can be temporarily or permanently dismissed. • FIXED: Support for landscape orientation got broken in the previous release. • FIXED: The timeline for Japanese users was shifted partly off-screen, so the scroll position indicator wasn't visible. • FIXED Eliminated the extra refresh sometimes seen when going from the recorder back to review, and the list always scrolls to the "Add more notes" footer at the end. • More help for new users: An onboarding screen explaining the four colors and additional tips: pointer to the help button on home screen; drag for an interaction; tap on entity to save current note and start a new one; tip when user first places a group icon in the seating chart editor. • Onboarding video is more visible and plays full screen, much clearer. • Additional seating chart template, "Sample with names", to demonstrate that entities can have student names. Only visible on fresh installs (new users). Preview images for the templates are now generated at first run rather than retrieved as jpeg images. • Aesthetic changes to the first page of PDFs. • A lot of under-the-hood code cleanup.

The developer, Lesson Study Alliance, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

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The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More

  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Voice Control

    • Larger Text

    • Dark Interface

    • Differentiate Without Color Alone

    • Sufficient Contrast

Seller
  • Lesson Study Alliance
Size
  • 63.5 MB
Category
  • Education
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 13.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
  • English, Cambodian, French, Japanese, Thai
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • 1 Year Pro $64.99
  • 3 Months of Pro $29.99
  • 6 Months of Pro $44.99
  • 2-year LessonNote Pro subscription $249.99
  • 1-year LessonNote Pro subscription $149.99
  • 6-month LessonNote Pro subscription $89.99
Copyright
  • © 2026 Lesson Study Alliance