FreshGrade for Teachers
FreshGrade allows teachers and students to quickly and easily capture artifacts and create portfolios to communicate student learning.
Capture rich media artifacts of student learning as it happens—through pictures, videos, audio recordings, links, documents and anecdotal notes. Share student portfolios, send class-wide announcements, and monitor portfolio activity.
"FreshGrade forms a continuous glimpse into each child's progress that parents and students can share." — Sir Ken Robinson, Author, Creative Schools.
The Wall Street Journal reports that FreshGrade, “makes real-time learning assessment as easy as snapping selfies.”
FreshGrade creates meaningful communication and increases engagement between teachers, students and parents. Using the FreshGrade Parent App and FreshGrade Student App, students and parents have secure access to view, comment and upload additional artifacts to the student’s portfolio. The FreshGrade suite of applications features student portfolios, parent engagement, custom assessment tools, custom activities/assignments with curriculum alignment and classroom announcements.
FEATURES
- Forever free for Teachers, Parents and Students
- Capture student learning through photos, videos, audio recordings, and notes
- Store and/or share evidence of learning in students’ digital portfolios
- Communicate student-specific information and class-wide announcements to parents
- No in-app purchases, third-party advertising or data sharing
- Available for Android, Chromebooks, in any browser and on iOS.
Enabling TeachersThrough devices and secure technology that people use every day, we provide the tools to allow you to be an effective educator without adding more to your to-do list. Communicate using digital portfolios on the go, recording artifacts of learning, and uploading them directly to student portfolios. Instantly tag individual students or groups of students, automatically capture learning in individual student portfolios and send to parents or guardians.
Empowering StudentsCapturing activities inside and out of the classroom has never been easier, putting control of continuous learning in the hands of students and their stakeholders. Teachers have noticed that as a result of using FreshGrade, their students take a greater ownership of their learning.
Engaging ParentsProvide parents with a window into their child’s learning journey. FreshGrade enables stronger communication outside of the classroom, providing parents with greater awareness of their child’s development. Engaged parents become partners in their child’s education, supporting learning at home with specific feedback from teachers.
About FreshGradeFreshGrade was founded in 2012 by a group of dedicated individuals who saw a better way to communicate a child's progress. FreshGrade is now used in over 70 countries worldwide and has users across all 50 states. In the largest school district using FreshGrade across their classrooms, 30% have replaced traditional report cards with FreshGrade.
Contact UsWe would love to hear from you [email protected] or on Twitter @FreshGrade for general inquiries and [email protected] for support. We always appreciate your feedback!
Category : Education
Reviews (26)
Website and app aren't working properly. Just lags all the time, I've sent many emails, and nothing gets fixed. Very unfortunate, because the whole idea of it is great.
It would be nice if I could change the student's grade on the app for my phone. I'm not always near a computer. Would also like to be able to upload a photo or document to assessment that has already been created.
App will not install properly. All other apps including fresh grade parent and student install fine. App stops installation process and says something went wrong.
Can't add or assess assignments/grades without a PC, students can't see current percentage, really just a useless app.
App doesn't go past pick a school. I have also tried reinstalling it. Would like to see what this app can do.
I love this app, parents love this app but it constantly freezes as I try to upload photos.
Badly needs an update to sync with the new platform.
I'm not able to post videos, only pictures..
I have it for scoop
All the sudden I am not able to share highlights to parents. I pressed the "envelope" icon on the top right corner of each post. Please fix
Severely making behind the iOS app. Could you add ability to attach photos to documentation of a student's activity, please? Can do this in iOS but not Android version. Gradebook, too! Android version needs a huge catch up update!!
Would give this a higher rating if I can upload documents to already created documents. I can do this with Apple products. So disappointed that it is different with android. Please can this be fixed?
Why is the android app so different from the apple app? It would be nice to have access to the gradebook. Also for announcements, it would be helpful to be able to take a picture of a notice going home.
I like this app, but I can't seem to attach a photo to an activity. This is a very important (missing) feature. I can only attach photos to portfolios.
Its been a month I have given so many feed backs but this app keeps on crashing like crazy! Fix it
I've tried several times to install, but I keep getting the message "object moved to here." Nothing happens and I've tried everything. I'd love to use this app, but I'm frustrated!
I wish we were able to access/edit our grade book from the app
I don't like this app because I have no access to my gradebook. It is not fair that the iPad app does allow access but the Android does not.
I only gave it 3 stars because it does not allow you to attach files to the mass message service. It would be awesome to be able to attach pdf files of assignments and video attachments with instructions to your entire class and send it out so they know exactly what to do if one is ever out. I know the subs would appreciate it. Please add this feature to your app. Until then, I will only use this app to get students to upload their presentations. I will continue to use remind 101 to send assignments out.
This app totally streamlined my parent communcation. It is so quick and easy to reach all parents at once, or to send out a personalized note to just one. I love being able to showcase pictures and videos along with assessment. I 100% recommend this app to any teacher!
I love Fg but on Android, it only has a fraction of the regular functionalities. Looking forward to an improved version.
Taking a photo crashes the app.
Love FreshGrade so much - such an excellent resource. So glad that you finally have the app for Android! Thank you!
Freshgrade will change the way you report on student progress, but also how you teach. The engagement in their learning, that being able to document and reflect on progress daily enables, is transformative for students. FG is easy to use and eliminates old fashioned paper reporting that always came too late. The FG team is also responsive to improvements. FG Teacher is a great app! Love being able to communicate about progress with parents and kids instantly.
I've been using freshgrade for this year and thrilled to have an android version of the app. Great tool for every teacher's classroom.
I have now installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled this app several times, but to no avail. I get to complete set up, but then a message pops up to find my school, and the screen freezes. I cannot get past this frozen screen no matter what I try.