Yeh your potentially revenue model was what lost me a bit :)
My mother is a primary school teacher and so not quite what your after but her experience would probably scale to higher level education. So hopefully my ideas count as semi-insightful :)
I could see this being adopted by university professors in certain circumstances - but the idea of shelling out for it will definitely put them off (trust me - our lecturers claimed for EVERYTHING :D). Plus many universities already have custom portal software that the lecturers have to use (for whatever reason: usually in case of disputes etc.).
Same probably applies to (UK) secondary school (US = high school) level teachers (i.e. they wont want to pay). BUT in their case getting the school to pay for it on "expenses" would be next to impossible (budgets are super tight atm). As I see it this is probably your target market (definitely in the UK anyway) so if you can market it to the schools themselves you might have more success.
Some ideas for you (I apologise I only briefly scanned your app so they could be in place already :) plus some of this is relevant to UK schools and I have no idea how it works in the US - though I would bet it is similar). This also assumes your interested in grouping teachers by school :)
Firstly allow collaboration. In schools usually assignments are designed by one or more subject heads/organisers. If you let said co-ordinator upload all the assignments to somewhere all of the subject teachers can access and send them out to their students this would probably get you a lot of interest. Mostly because if the teachers / subject heads change the historical data is already there to make use of :)
One other idea is to allow some kind of grouping of gradings for a specific email address. One of a teachers BIGGEST gripes is collating reports for their students. If they could see all the awarded grades by subject in one click I bet you would get piles of "we love you" email.
But yes: the main way I see of selling this is pitching it as a "whole school" thing. Individuals, of course, might make regular use of it (perhaps this is your freemium model - free individual, pay-for school-wide collab features) but it is to schools I think you have to pitch it.
Sorry to ramble - it's too hot again :) hopefully something there is useful.
My mother is a primary school teacher and so not quite what your after but her experience would probably scale to higher level education. So hopefully my ideas count as semi-insightful :)
I could see this being adopted by university professors in certain circumstances - but the idea of shelling out for it will definitely put them off (trust me - our lecturers claimed for EVERYTHING :D). Plus many universities already have custom portal software that the lecturers have to use (for whatever reason: usually in case of disputes etc.).
Same probably applies to (UK) secondary school (US = high school) level teachers (i.e. they wont want to pay). BUT in their case getting the school to pay for it on "expenses" would be next to impossible (budgets are super tight atm). As I see it this is probably your target market (definitely in the UK anyway) so if you can market it to the schools themselves you might have more success.
Some ideas for you (I apologise I only briefly scanned your app so they could be in place already :) plus some of this is relevant to UK schools and I have no idea how it works in the US - though I would bet it is similar). This also assumes your interested in grouping teachers by school :)
Firstly allow collaboration. In schools usually assignments are designed by one or more subject heads/organisers. If you let said co-ordinator upload all the assignments to somewhere all of the subject teachers can access and send them out to their students this would probably get you a lot of interest. Mostly because if the teachers / subject heads change the historical data is already there to make use of :)
One other idea is to allow some kind of grouping of gradings for a specific email address. One of a teachers BIGGEST gripes is collating reports for their students. If they could see all the awarded grades by subject in one click I bet you would get piles of "we love you" email.
But yes: the main way I see of selling this is pitching it as a "whole school" thing. Individuals, of course, might make regular use of it (perhaps this is your freemium model - free individual, pay-for school-wide collab features) but it is to schools I think you have to pitch it.
Sorry to ramble - it's too hot again :) hopefully something there is useful.