About Doctopus
Doctopus is an educational software platform from New Visions Cloudlab that supports teachers in managing student projects in Google Drive™. It combines project scaffolding, organization tools, and assessment capabilities so educators can effectively track student progress. The platform allows teachers to distribute templates, monitor submissions, and provide feedback directly within Google Drive™, simplifying the project management process. Additionally, it helps ensure that students have structured support throughout their project work. Key capabilities: project scaffolding template distribution progress tracking feedback integration assessment tools Best for: educators who need to manage and assess student projects efficiently.
Doctopus Details
Doctopus's In-App Market Place
Does Doctopus have an in-app market place?
Yes
How many Mini-Apps in the marketplace?
1
Mini Apps
N/A
Pricing Options
Accepted Payment Currencies
N/A
Pros & Cons
- Automates creation of teacher, student, and individual student subfolders efficiently, saving setup time.
- Mass-copies and distributes assignment documents to students accurately, ensuring everyone receives the correct file.
- Facilitates group work by allowing shared access to documents among multiple students easily.
- Provides centralized control of student submissions, making it easier to monitor progress and manage assignments.
- Reduces paper usage and administrative overhead by enabling a fully digital workflow for assignments.
- Frequently experiences sidebar glitches, requiring workarounds like refreshing or closing/reopening the extension.
- Struggles to automatically generate "Class Edit" and "Class View" folders correctly, leading to manual fixes.
- Does not consistently place student assignment shortcuts in a single Teacher folder, requiring extra steps.
- Folder management can misplace shared folders, making distribution confusing and error-prone.
- Can be slow to process large rosters, causing delays when setting up assignments.