Staffroom · in development
Put it on the board and get on with the lesson.
The things you would otherwise draw on the whiteboard, up on the projector before the bell goes — starting with a timer the back row can actually read. Free to use, with nothing to sign up for.
The board
Everything that usually ends up on the whiteboard
Drag on what you need and size it to the room. Any widget goes full-screen when it is the only thing that matters.
Countdown
12:00
Drafting time
Work mode
Silent work
On your own, no talking
Noise meter
34
An illustration of the board, not the live product.
Twenty-two of them, so far
- Countdown
- Station timers
- Stopwatch
- Clock
- Work mode
- Stoplight
- Noise meter
- Whisper count
- Sound cues
- Ambient sound
- Random picker
- Random teams
- Dice
- Spin wheel
- Learning intention
- Announcement
- Date & week
- Join code
- QR link
- Days until
- Whose turn
- Scoreboard
Beyond the widgets
Two tools that don’t fit on a tile
Seating plan creator
Put the desks where they actually are, not into a grid somebody else designed. Name them, save the layout, and print it for whoever is covering you on Thursday.
Exam mode
A clock and a countdown on the board, synced, so nobody has to ask. The reminders are yours to write, and they go up when you want them to.
Why it’s built this way
Most classroom tools assume a fast connection and a teacher who stays put
Staffroom doesn’t. It works offline from the ground up, because the moments it is most needed are usually the ones where the wifi isn’t.
The reliever
Walks in cold on a guest network that will not let them on, four minutes before a class they have never met.
The teacher who isn’t in a classroom
PE on the far field, the workshop, the school camp. Anywhere the signal quietly drops out and the tool stops being a tool.
The school where it’s just slow
Rural and remote schools, where anything that needs the network to load is something that does not load.
Where we stop
Students never log in
Staffroom is only ever used by teachers. There is no student app and no student account.
Seating charts
Names a teacher typed in for one period. We do not store them, and a reliever can switch the chart to initials or seat numbers.
Handover notes
A reliever can leave one line for the regular teacher, up to 140 characters. It is a message between colleagues, not a record.
Staffroom is still being built
It is going out with a handful of schools first. If you want to know when it opens up — or you book cover and want Relief — tell us.