Special Features

What is HotChalk? First and foremost, HotChalk is an online educational community designed with one purpose in mind: to make a teacher's life easier and more productive at no cost to teachers, parents, students, or even the schools themselves. The HotChalk Learning Environment provides quality teaching tools aimed to increase productivity. Using HotChalk's teaching tools, any educator can easily create an online classroom complete with automatic homework and assignment distribution, collection, and grading. Combined with an internet-based gradebook and the ability to create and share lesson plans, school tools, and resources, HotChalk's timesavers are valuable assets to any instructor looking to use the power of the internet to bring their class online.

We believe that professional development is an integral part of a teacher's growth. Through a partnership with McGraw-Hill, HotChalk offers a wide assortment of Professional Development Modules. Through an exclusive partnership with McGraw-Hill, HotChalk offers a range of convenient online professional development courses for teachers with Continuing Education Units (CEU). It's a great way to further your teaching career and fulfill your professional development responsibilities for advancement in your profession.

HotChalk also offers access to a thriving community of educators through our Teachers Community. Connect with colleagues to discuss any number of topics, such as child development, class timesavers, and homeschooling (HotChalk is a great tool for homeschoolers!).

HotChalk isn't just limited to teachers - parents, students, and administrators also benefit from participating. HotChalk is an effective tool for school communication, connecting parents with their child's classroom work. Parent resources allow them to track their child's progress, set alerts, and stay in touch with the teacher through HotChalk's parent teacher portal. Parent teacher communication is enhanced through our online interface (virtual parent teacher conferences online!). Students have access to their work 24/7 so they can stay on top of their work. These excellent student resources improve their learning and encourage greater classroom participation. HotChalk also offers virtual online tutoring for students. Administrators can stay connected with their teachers and school community using HotChalk's educational database management and organizational tools. Class communication has never been this easy, parents have never been so involved in their children's learning, and the student learning resources and tools boost participation.

Welcome to HotChalk! We're trying to change the world, one classroom at a time.

Overview | Online Gradebook Tools | Continuing Education | Online Teacher Classrooms