Solutions · After-school and summer programs
After-school and summer learning kids show up for
Pencil Spaces helps after-school, summer and out-of-school-time programs run live classes children want to join, with attendance and safety handled. These are the problems program staff, instructors, children and families run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Schools
Who
Program leaders, Instructors, Students, Families
Problems mapped
20
Today
19 solved, 1 partly solved
Built for after-school and summer programs
- Attendance without the clipboardAutomatic Attendance · AvailableAutomatic Attendance records students and teachers as they join and leave.
- Activities kids want to do1,000+ Apps & Resources · AvailableEvery Space puts apps and resources one click away, from Kahoot and Desmos to Google Docs, and your team decides what appears.
- Safety you can explain to parentsWaiting Room · AvailableWith the Waiting Room, students wait in a branded lobby until you let them in.
Program leaders
- Under-dosed students spotted too lateSolved today
- Funding is hard to win and keepSolved today
- Student data under COPPA, FERPA and GDPRSolved today
- Hard to judge teaching skill before hiringSolved today
- Coaches can’t give every tutor feedbackSolved today
- No-shows and join failures at start timeSolved today
- Logins fail, young children most of allSolved today
Instructors
- Unready for their first real studentsSolved today
- Inheriting students with no contextSolved today
- Logging attendance after every lessonSolved today
- Attention drifts, young kids most of allSolved today
Students
- Forgetting, or no adult to get them thereSolved today
- Only a phone or a locked-down ChromebookSolved today
- Afraid of being wrong in front of peersSolved today
- Accommodations missing in the lessonSolved today
- Work that feels boring and irrelevantSolved today
- Effort that goes unnoticedSolved today
Families
- “It was fine” is all they hearSolved today
- Wary of recordings and AI on their childSolved today
- Language barriers with the programPartly solved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
See it in a live Space.
We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.
