Elementary teachers are overwhelmed with tracking and reporting on an excessive number of academic standards per subject for standards-based report cards, lacking sufficient data for many individual standards.

Current gradebooks and SIS platforms treat all standards as equally important, offer no way to consolidate or prioritize, and fail to flag standards with insufficient assessment data before report card creation.

Severity

3Medium

Willingness to Pay

implied

Added

Jun 2, 2026

Workarounds Described

manually sorting through 12 aspects of math for report card data
struggling with lacking significant data for some standards

Implied Software Gaps

Tool that groups related standards into broader skill categories to reduce volume
Dashboard that indicates which standards lack sufficient assessment data before grade entry

App Concept

Standards-Simplify

Standards-Simplify is a report card companion that lets teachers group related standards into broader skill categories, track only the most assessed or priority standards, and auto-flag standards lacking data. It integrates with popular gradebooks to reduce report card creation time by 50%.

Key Features

Custom skill grouping: drag-and-drop individual standards into broader categories (e.g., 'Number Sense' combines 3 sub-standards)
Data sufficiency alerts: highlights standards with fewer than 3 assessment entries before report card printing
One-click report card export to existing SIS format or PDF
Priority standard pinning: mark core standards to track while hiding optional ones

Target Users: K–5 classroom teachers and elementary school administrators using standards-based grading in the US (especially early adopters in districts transitioning to SBG)

Revenue Model: School/district licensing: $1,200/year per school (covers up to 30 teachers) or $15/month per individual teacher subscription

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