SmartTeach

Name: SmartTeach
Rating: 4.8 (1166 reviews)
Author: Teaching Strategies, LLC

Daily Classroom Essentials

Free

1.2K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Teaching Strategies, LLC
Language

EN
+ 1 More
Size

100.8
MB

The SmartTeach® app by Teaching Strategies offers early childhood educators an easy and efficient way to quickly complete essential daily tasks on-the-fly, online, or offline. The SmartTeach app simplifies teaching, documentation, classroom management, and family engagement throughout the day, enabling teachers to maximize every moment with easy-to-use tools right at their fingertips. The SmartTeach app is accessible to Teachers and Administrators using Teaching Strategies products such as GOLD®, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud, Kickstart Literacy™, and Tadpoles®. Download SmartTeach by Teaching Strategies to access our new and improved features & functionality. SmartTeach offers early childhood educators a single app to support all essential classroom tasks, including: - Create documentation - View and teach directly from your daily schedule, curriculum, activities, and care routines - Communicate with families - Save & share photos, videos, and other media across devices - View & assess from resources like Intentional Teaching Experiences, Skill Development Cards, and Mighty Minutes®* - Identify Infant and Toddler children’s developmental level with the Entry Screener to dynamically populate individualized support for each child* - Take attendance, move children or staff, and complete name-to-face checks* - Track care routines and share Daily Reports with families* *Feature availability is dependent on which Teaching Strategies products your classroom licenses.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

1.2K Ratings

Great app to submit Notes
Oct 6

yekristianson
This is a easy and awesome app to track your notes and to submit them to teaching strategies gold,
Great app to submit Notes
Oct 6

yekristianson

This is a easy and awesome app to track your notes and to submit them to teaching strategies gold,
Too Many Kinks
09/07/2024

TaraACa
This app has so much potential… My district made the teachers switch from dojo to this and no one is happy. First off on dojo, esl families can translate messages and vice versa. This app gives no translation support. You can’t even copy and paste messages to put into Google Translate. You have to click “use as documentation” and open that- only then can you highlight it to copy. Second, you can’t see which families have viewed your messages like you could with dojo. This makes it harder to know if a family has seen what you posted or not. Third, you can’t delete messages in the app. Not only that it is so visually unappealing and boring. Whoever designed this tried to quickly get it made and took in no user friendly consideration. I wish we could use dojo again.

Developer Response
Hello, thank you for sharing your thoughts. We are sorry to hear how frustrated you are with messaging in the app. Please know that in-app translation is high on our list of priorities for future improvements. In the meantime, if you copy a message prior to sending it, you could then paste it into a translation service. We had not enabled copy and paste once a message is sent due to privacy concerns. We have made a note of your other suggestions and will take them into consideration, as we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our users. If you have any further issues, please contact our support team.
Too Many Kinks
09/07/2024

TaraACa

This app has so much potential… My district made the teachers switch from dojo to this and no one is happy. First off on dojo, esl families can translate messages and vice versa. This app gives no translation support. You can’t even copy and paste messages to put into Google Translate. You have to click “use as documentation” and open that- only then can you highlight it to copy. Second, you can’t see which families have viewed your messages like you could with dojo. This makes it harder to know if a family has seen what you posted or not. Third, you can’t delete messages in the app. Not only that it is so visually unappealing and boring. Whoever designed this tried to quickly get it made and took in no user friendly consideration. I wish we could use dojo again.
Developer Response Jan 8
Hello, thank you for sharing your thoughts. We are sorry to hear how frustrated you are with messaging in the app. Please know that in-app translation is high on our list of priorities for future improvements. In the meantime, if you copy a message prior to sending it, you could then paste it into a translation service. We had not enabled copy and paste once a message is sent due to privacy concerns. We have made a note of your other suggestions and will take them into consideration, as we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our users. If you have any further issues, please contact our support team.
Frustrated
Sep 30

Tanjam10
I wanted to love this app so much. After switching from Brightwheel, I was so excited to streamline everything. It’s just been one technical glitch after another. My teachers are frustrated, parents are frustrated, I’m frustrated. Any technical issues are met with a request to submit a tech ticket and it takes weeks to resolve, or they tell me to delete and reinstall the program. I can’t do that every single day! Please don’t market this product until it’s ready and free of the amount of bugs it still has. We paid A LOT of money for this product and I honestly wish we hadn’t switched.
Frustrated
Sep 30

Tanjam10

I wanted to love this app so much. After switching from Brightwheel, I was so excited to streamline everything. It’s just been one technical glitch after another. My teachers are frustrated, parents are frustrated, I’m frustrated. Any technical issues are met with a request to submit a tech ticket and it takes weeks to resolve, or they tell me to delete and reinstall the program. I can’t do that every single day! Please don’t market this product until it’s ready and free of the amount of bugs it still has. We paid A LOT of money for this product and I honestly wish we hadn’t switched.
Not user friendly
Sep 14

Tyguy4756
Not super user friendly. I wish there was more consideration/input from actual daily users. You should be able to select more than one piece of documentation at a time and apply the same objectives. You should be able to select more than one photo from “my media” at a time and delete them. So many little things point to it being designed by someone who doesn’t actually use it.

Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're sorry to hear you're encountering usability issues with the app. We're continually looking for ways to improve the experience, so I noted your suggestion for bulk-editing documentation on our backlog to explore further! In the meantime, it is possible to multi-select photos. In My Media, you can hold any of the images and it will open multi-select so you can select as many as you like. The action menu will also open so you can delete them, add them to documentation, etc. Let us know if you run into more issues, we're happy to help. Thanks again!
Not user friendly
Sep 14

Tyguy4756

Not super user friendly. I wish there was more consideration/input from actual daily users. You should be able to select more than one piece of documentation at a time and apply the same objectives. You should be able to select more than one photo from “my media” at a time and delete them. So many little things point to it being designed by someone who doesn’t actually use it.
Developer Response Sep 16
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're sorry to hear you're encountering usability issues with the app. We're continually looking for ways to improve the experience, so I noted your suggestion for bulk-editing documentation on our backlog to explore further! In the meantime, it is possible to multi-select photos. In My Media, you can hold any of the images and it will open multi-select so you can select as many as you like. The action menu will also open so you can delete them, add them to documentation, etc. Let us know if you run into more issues, we're happy to help. Thanks again!

All teachers and administrators using the SmartTeach® mobile app now have shared access to classroom media, the ability to update child profile photos, and other minor improvements. Teachers and administrators using the SmartTeach mobile app with Tadpoles® and a GOLD® or Creative Curriculum® Cloud license can now receive Sticky Notes reminders and attach announcements, edit activities, and view activity objectives and dimensions on the Daily Report. Teachers using Kickstart Literacy™ can now seamlessly assess multiple children for a Skill Development Card in one flow.

Version 4.1

Oct 17

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