Teaching · For Teachers

Count back from release day, in school days.

Enter the end of the period, the release date and the days school is closed. Give each step a number of school days before release and the scheduler dates them all, in order, and flags the ones that collide.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the For Teachers toolkit, $79 for 72 items.

The deadline scheduler

One schedule per grading period, under a school or team code. The example dates are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each grading period, every deadline dated with its owner, the school days between close and release, and the conflicts to fix.
Who it is for
Teachers, grade-level and department teams, school office staff and administrators planning report card deadlines.
Format
Browser scheduler used before each grading period ends. One saved schedule per period; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV of the steps; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
ABAwork back from the day they go home
Drawn for this page. Fix the release date first, then count back in school days for every step that has to happen before it.

How to use it

  1. Start a schedule with a code and today’s date.
  2. Enter the last day of the period and the release date.
  3. Add the closures to skip.
  4. List the steps with school days before release and owners.
  5. Fix any flagged conflict, then print and share.

Make a schedule

What the scheduler is for

Why school days

Teachers enter grades and write comments on school days. Counting back in calendar days hides a long weekend or a holiday inside a deadline; this counts only weekdays the school is open.

Common conflicts

A late-work cutoff before the period actually ends, grades and comments due the same day, or a release that lands on a closure are the usual problems. The summary flags each one.

What this is not

A scheduler for your own dates. It does not read the school calendar, so enter every closure you want skipped.

Sources

  1. Guskey, T. R., and Brookhart, S. M., eds. (2019), What We Know About Grading: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next. ASCD.
  2. Brookhart, S. M., and colleagues (2016), A century of grading research: meaning and value in the most common educational measure, Review of Educational Research 86(4).
  3. U.S. Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office, on parents’ access to education records such as report cards (FERPA, 34 CFR 99.10).
  4. Guskey, T. R. (2015), On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting. Solution Tree.

The example dates and team are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.