3apples

The classroom problem

Counting produces a number. Ask what actually happened three days later — a parent on the phone, a homeroom teacher, the student themselves — and the number is all that survives. The recording also has to happen mid-lesson, in the two seconds you have while teaching.

The design decision

Tapping minus opens a short list of reasons and commits nothing until you pick one. Escape closes it clean. That single rule turns a tally into a record you can stand behind.

Undo appends a reversing entry. The ledger keeps both, so it shows what was recorded and what was taken back.

Tiles collapse to a name until you tap one, and only the open tile carries buttons. The interface refuses to mark a student you haven’t opened.

How it works

Everyone starts each lesson with three apples. A spoken warning or a lost apple counts as one incident: the first opens a homeroom follow-up, the second a parent one, and both close at day’s end. Each drafts an email you can edit before it’s sent.

Everything lives in the browser and exports to a file you own. A one-file copy runs offline from your desktop. The demo roster is two invented students; no real child’s record has ever been in it.