Spelling Assessment for Microschools

The Microschool Assessment Problem

A microschool usually runs lean: one or two lead teachers, a small mixed-age group, a flexible or year-round schedule, and no IT department to lean on. The instruction is often excellent — but the assessment layer is improvised. Spelling gets checked on paper one week, in a free quiz app the next, and tracked in a spreadsheet that only the founder understands. When a tuition-paying parent asks how their child is progressing in spelling, there is no clean record to point to.

Ezergrade™ is built for exactly this gap. It is the honest assessment and record-keeping layer that sits alongside whatever spelling program your microschool already teaches from — not a curriculum, not a practice game, and not a heavy learning management system you have to administer. One word list becomes a real test, graded automatically, stored in one place a parent can actually see.

One Word List, Every Way a Small School Needs to Test

Microschools rarely test the same way twice — a multi-age room means some students are ready to type, some test best on paper, and some are out the day you run it. From a single word list, Ezergrade delivers the same test in whichever way fits, without re-entering a word:

• Live class test. The lead teacher runs one synchronized session — every student hears each word at the same moment, under the teacher's control, with the full integrity stack active. The teacher's hands stay free to supervise the room.
• Self-paced. A student plays each word themselves, as many times as they need, while the teacher monitors progress in real time — useful in a mixed-age group where students work at different speeds. In development.
• Homework. A student who missed the in-person session completes the test on their own device before a deadline the teacher sets, with results landing in the same record.
• Paper. For the youngest learners, the teacher reads words aloud or uses voice-led dictation — no student devices needed. (Scan-and-grade arrives in Stage 3.)

Every mode feeds the same grade record. See the full workflow on the How It Works page, or read how a live spelling test runs end to end.

Built for Schools Without IT Infrastructure

Most assessment software assumes a school district behind it — managed devices, an IT admin, and a roster sync nobody at a microschool has time to configure. Ezergrade assumes the opposite:

• Nothing to install. Ezergrade runs in a browser on whatever devices the school already has — Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, or a mix.
• No student logins. Students join a live test by entering a session code — no accounts, no passwords, no per-student provisioning for a lead teacher to manage.
• Student number as a first-class field. Every student carries a number alongside their name, so two children with the same first name never get confused on a result sheet.
• Optional Student ID Lock. A session can require each student to match their number and name against the class roster before joining — useful when a small room is sharing a few devices.

Google Classroom Integration

Many microschools already run on Google Classroom. Ezergrade connects to it directly so your roster and grades stay in sync without manual re-entry:

• Roster import. Connect your Google account, pick a Google Classroom course, map it to an Ezergrade class, and import students with editable student numbers — no typing a roster by hand.
• Grade passback. After a session ends, push each student's score back to Google Classroom as a coursework item, so the grade you record in Ezergrade appears where families already check it.

For a small school without a separate gradebook system, this turns Ezergrade into the spelling-assessment piece of a setup you already use.

Honest Input™ — So Microschool Grades Mean Something

When students test on shared phones, tablets, and laptops, autocorrect and spellcheck quietly fix misspellings before the answer is submitted — and a small school ends up with grades that reflect the device, not the child. Honest Input™ disables autocorrect, autocomplete, autocapitalize, and spellcheck on every answer field, in every test mode.

In live and self-paced sessions, the full assessment integrity stack is active — fullscreen lockdown, focus and dimension detection, disconnect detection, an integrity log of every exit event, and an optional Secure Mode where a student who leaves the test cannot resume until the teacher approves. Ezergrade cannot detect a second physical device, and it does not pretend to. The honest position is that it stops the most common real-world sources of inflated spelling scores and surfaces the rest for the teacher's judgment.

One Grade Record Parents Can Actually See

For a tuition-based microschool, a clean, credible record is part of what families are paying for. Ezergrade stores every result automatically, regardless of which mode was used:

• Student name and student number
• The class, the word list, the date, and the delivery mode used
• Each word, the student's answer, and whether it was correct
• Overall score and percentage, with wrong and blank answers flagged

Results export to CSV — one row per student with their number, name, score, percentage, and every word-answer pair — ready for a parent conference, an end-of-term report, or your own records.

Who It's For

• Microschool founders and lead teachers who need a professional assessment and record system without standing up an LMS or an IT department.
• Small mixed-age programs that test the same word list different ways for different ages — live for older students, paper for the youngest.
• Tuition-based schools that need credible, parent-facing spelling records to show progress across the year.

Ezergrade is built for Grades 1–8 core, with optional early phonics support for Kindergarten through teacher-led audio dictation and paper mode.