Web Apps
Simple web tools and applications designed to emulate paid edtech tools or solve simple education-related needs. These often require some basic experience with Google Apps Script to launch. All are under a CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. These tools are shared freely and designed to be useful, but how you use them is your responsibility. Before deploying any tool in your context, make sure it aligns with your organization’s policies, applicable laws and regulations (including data privacy requirements like FERPA, COPPA, or whatever applies in your setting), and your own professional and ethical judgment. I build these tools to solve real problems I have encountered in my own work, and I share them because I believe open resources make the field better. That said, I cannot account for every context, configuration, or use case. Test thoroughly before relying on any tool in a production environment, and if something does not work the way you expect, reach out at licht.education@gmail.com so we can figure it out together.
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Tracking and Reminder System
A Google Sheet that tracks one item across a group of people and emails them about it on a schedule until they are done. Also shared under the name of “Communication Manager”…
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Surveillance Refusal – Chrome Extension for Canvas
Canvas records a great deal about students that has nothing to do with their schoolwork. It logs when a student last logged in, how long a session lasted, how many times they…

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Decision Rights Mapper
A note before you start The Decision Rights Mapper is released as a free, open tool under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That openness is intentional, and it carries a corresponding responsibility for…
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Scope and Sequence Builder
The Scope and Sequence Builder is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which means you’re welcome to copy it, modify it, and share it with colleagues as long as you…

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Staff Rounding Dashboard
“Rounding” is a practice borrowed from healthcare leadership where administrators make regular, structured check-ins with their staff. Rather than waiting for annual surveys or hoping problems surface on their own, rounding gives…
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Danielson Framework Walk-Through Observation Form
Version note: Updated September 2026 for v3.1, which adds teacher pre-observation input. If you are already running v3.0.x, you do not need to make a new copy. See “Already running an earlier…

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Accommodation Tracker and Classroom Snapshot Generator
A Note on Data Privacy and Compliance Before anything else, this needs to be said clearly: this tool stores student accommodation data in Google Workspace (Google Sheets and Google Docs), and depending…
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FAQ Chatbot: A Configurable Help Desk You Actually Control
Version: 1.0.0 What and Why If you’ve ever managed a program, a department, or really any group of people with questions, you know the pattern. The same questions come in over and…

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Canvas “Auto Pacer:” Custom Student Check-Ins for Self-Paced Courses
A Note on Student Data and AI Processing When the tool drafts check-in messages, it sends each student’s name, course name, and assignment progress to the Claude API hosted by Anthropic. This…
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Student Roster Generator
Version 2.0.0 A Note on Student Data This tool runs entirely within your Google Sheet. No student information leaves your Google Drive, gets sent to an external server, or is accessible to…
