Invaluable for Teacher Feedback
I am an education consultant and author that works with schools on personalized learning through learning labs. This app is invaluable for observation and feedback in learning labs. It is absolutely worth the investment, even if you’re not doing Lesson Study or Learning Labs. You can keep track of lesson observations and link student work with them directly. Do not hesitate—try it out and you will be hooked.
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No typing function
Please could this be added? I won’t be using it without this function.
nothing touches it
I have seen nothing else like this for classroom observation. Instead of a bunch of checkboxes, sliders, and the like, this app invites you to focus on what is most important: the students and how the lesson is impacting them. Based on a seating chart (which you can set up really fast), you take handwritten notes about what students (and the teacher) are saying and doing. You can insert photos of student work. You notate changes in modality (e.g. whole-group vs small-group or individual work). After the lesson, the app makes it easy to talk about what happened and when – every note is time-stamped and linked to the seating chart so you know whom it is about. And yes, there are some statistics if you want those: how long each segment of the lesson was, how many notes you have for each person, and the total duration of those notes. Some things could make it better: "undo" is so slow as to be unusable, and there is no eraser. But this app has really improved the quality of my post-lesson conversations with teachers. This free (FREE!) app blows everything else away. Thank you!
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Even better if...
A clever app but seems to be missing an obvious feature...add in the option to type notes with the keyboard. This would make it a full observation tool!
Innovative, but poor quality writing
I was really excited about this app because I've been looking for a free (or at least non-subscription based) app for observations within classrooms. I love the concept of the app, and the structure of capturing information tied to a student, teacher, etc.
Tapping on a student and entering individual notes is a great idea and prevents the issues I've had running out of space to write notes near a student's name.
That being said, the responsiveness of the app to input leaves a LOT to be desired. Writing with an Apple Pencil results in blocky and largely unreadable text - the app just doesn't track the stylus with enough (or much of any) precision, which renders it basically unusable.
Hoping for an improvement - would love to use the app, but can't currently!
Tapping on a student and entering individual notes is a great idea and prevents the issues I've had running out of space to write notes near a student's name.
That being said, the responsiveness of the app to input leaves a LOT to be desired. Writing with an Apple Pencil results in blocky and largely unreadable text - the app just doesn't track the stylus with enough (or much of any) precision, which renders it basically unusable.
Hoping for an improvement - would love to use the app, but can't currently!
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Response from developer
Hi danlang, I know it's been quite a while since you wrote this review, but we've just released LessonNote 4 which makes serious improvements to the note taking and writing system. Particular to your comments, LessonNote now officially supports Apple Pencil®! We'd love for you to give LessonNote another try if it still fits into your needs. Thank you! The LessonNote Team
