The curriculum is in a document, the marking is in your head, the parent conversations are in your inbox, and the hours you actually worked are nowhere. Then somebody asks how the cohort is going.
An LMS exists so students can submit and administrators can report. It isn’t built for your week — and when the contract ends, it keeps everything you put in it.
Meanwhile half of teaching admin is the same task every seven days: mark the assignments, print the packs, check the shared inbox. That is exactly the work software should be carrying, and almost nothing does.
You are running a small practice that happens to be about teaching. Nobody sells software for that.
Your own fields. If you say students it says students; if you say families it says families.
Standard ⟶The marking writes itself every Monday morning, and skipping a week costs nothing and breaks no streak.
Standard ⟶What you covered, what they struggled with, and the parent conversation that came out of it — searchable in June.
Standard ⟶Tracked, not billed, so you can finally see what the term actually cost you.
Standard ⟶A cohort is a project shaped for teaching: rhythms and meetings on, mileage off because you walk, and a term and headcount as your own fields.
Every screen uses your words, including the reports and the emails.
“The school already has a system for this.”
It does, and it’s for the students. It tracks their submissions, their grades and their attendance — none of which is the thing you can’t find at half past nine on a Sunday.
This is the other half: your plan, your notes, your hours, your parent conversations. It sits alongside, it uses your language rather than the institution’s, and it’s still yours when the contract isn’t.
Your notes, your curriculum, your record of the term — yours to export whenever you ask.
Rename anything. A tutor’s “client” is a family; a lecturer’s is a department. Neither should have to pretend.
No streaks for marking on time, no red when a task is old. A hard week is a fact, not a failure.
That’s the normal case. Each is a client with its own arrangement — salaried, hourly, or not billed — and each cohort shows only the panels it needs.
Never — no accounts and no portal, ever. Giving a parent a link they can raise something on is the Ground Control front door, +$12, and most teachers won’t need it. Check what your school or contract allows before you invite anyone outside their systems; if it’s permitted, a link is the lightest way to do it.
Yes — daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and you can skip an occurrence without it counting against anything.
If it isn’t, write to me and say so — teaching, starting out, a bad year, whatever it is. I’d rather have you in here. That offer is real, it goes to a person, and it isn’t a discount code.
Twenty minutes, and by Monday morning you’ll know whether it fits. Two weeks free, no card, and nothing is deleted if you stop.
This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.