AllSet

by AvivMatrix

For teachers

An alternative to the class WhatsApp group

Keep the group. For conversation it is hard to beat, and you do not have to migrate thirty parents to anything. What is worth moving out of it is the work: homework, exams, the timetable, notices. A chat is the wrong place for something with a date on it. By Thursday the Tuesday message is four hundred lines up, and you answer it again.

In AllSet you publish once, to a class or several at a time, and it arrives in each student's planner as a dated item they tick off. You see how many have finished, never a named child's planner. Your first class is free, up to sixty students, and families pay nothing to receive your work.

What is actually wrong with the group

Not the group itself. The fact that homework is living in it.

  • A message has no date field. Work due on Thursday and a note about the sports day look identical in a scroll, so nothing can be sorted, filtered or ticked off.
  • It is asked again anyway. The parent who missed it at four o'clock asks at nine, and the answer you already gave is unreachable, so you type it out again.
  • It reaches parents, not students. The child who is meant to own their own work is not in the group and never sees the message.
  • Every class means another group. A teacher with five sections is in five groups, saying the same thing five times.

What changes

Publish once. The rest is what that makes possible.

  • One post, the whole class, or several classes at once. Homework, a project, an exam or a notice, set in under a minute standing up: a line of title, a date, done.
  • An exam typed once becomes thirty revision checklists. The portion you enter is split into topics in every student's planner, and each child ticks them off as they revise. This is the one thing a message cannot do at any length.
  • A count, not a register. You see how many of the class have finished a piece of work, enough to know whether to move on tomorrow. You never see a named child's planner, and families are told so.
  • Your own reminders, per class. Notes for tomorrow's lesson kept against the class they belong to, so the next day is ready before you leave today. Private to you.
  • Subjects file themselves when you name one on a class, so students are not each typing their own spelling of it.
A teacher's home screen in AllSet. Under MY NOTES are five private reminders, each tagged with a class: collect PTM consent slips for Grade 8B, a staff meeting note, return practice set 2 marks for Grade 9C. Under POSTED are four things she has sent: a formal uniform notice and a PTM notice to Grade 8B, and two pieces of work, Letter to the editor showing 14 out of 20 and Unseen passage practice showing 9 out of 16. No child is named anywhere.
What comes back from a post is a number: 14 of 20 have finished. Enough to know whether to move on tomorrow, and never a named child's planner.

Starting, without a migration

Three steps, and the group carries the first one.

  • Make the class and get its join code.
  • Share the code where the parents already are. The group itself is the obvious place. They join, and you approve who comes in.
  • Post the next homework in AllSet instead of typing it into the chat. Give it a fortnight before judging; the parents who join stop asking, and the ones who have not joined yet ask in the group as before.

Families join to receive your work at no cost, and that is not a trial. It lasts as long as you are their teacher. The teacher guide has the detail. If you also tutor children privately, that side works differently and costs you nothing. how tutor links work.

What AllSet does not do

There is no freeform chat and no group messaging, so this does not replace the conversation with parents and is not trying to. It also does not hold fees, attendance, circulars or report cards. That is the school's own system. And it will not stop a parent messaging you at nine at night; what it removes is the reason most of those messages get sent.

Questions people actually ask

What can I use instead of a class WhatsApp group?
For conversation, the group is hard to beat and there is no need to replace it. What is worth moving out of it is the work: homework, exams, the timetable and notices, which belong somewhere dated and searchable rather than in a scrolling chat. In AllSet you publish those once and they arrive in each student's planner as a dated item.
Do I have to move all my parents to a new app?
No, and this is the part most teachers expect to be worse than it is. Parents join your class with a code you share, in whichever channel you already use, including the group itself. Families who join to receive your work pay nothing for it, for as long as you are their teacher.
Can I message parents in AllSet?
There is no freeform chat, deliberately. You publish homework, an exam or a notice, and comments attach to a specific piece of work rather than forming an open channel. Keep the group for conversation; AllSet is for the work.
Can I see which children have not done the homework?
No, and that is a deliberate boundary rather than a missing feature. You see how many of your class have finished a piece of work, never a named child's planner. Families are told this plainly, and it is a large part of why they are willing to join.
Does it save time, or is it another thing to update?
The saving is in not repeating yourself. One post reaches the whole class, or several classes at once. An exam is the clearest case: type the portion once and it becomes a revision checklist in every student's planner, so thirty children have a topic list instead of thirty parents asking what the syllabus was.
What does it cost a teacher?
Your first class is free, up to sixty students, counted across your account. A second class or a sixty-first student is ₹249 / month. Families who join your class to receive your work pay nothing either way.
What happens to the work I set if I stop using AllSet?
What you have published stays in the students' planners as dated items. Ending a class does not delete the work that already reached them, and a family can leave a class at any time.

Set the next homework once.

Make a class, share the code in the group you already have, and see whether Thursday is quieter. Your first class is free, up to sixty students.

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