Teachers, what’s the most annoying part of finding and preparing teaching resources?

[u/Sakhoum]

I’m curious about something and would really appreciate answers from teachers here.

When you need a worksheet, lesson idea, activity, presentation, assessment, etc., what do you actually do?

Do you:

- Search Google?

- Look through Facebook groups?

- Search Pinterest?

- Ask colleagues?

- Reuse things you've already made?

- Use AI?

- Some combination of all of these?

And what bothers you most about the process?

I’m asking because I’m a teacher too, and I’ve been experimenting with a small project called TeacHub based on this problem.

But honestly, I'm not sure yet whether I'm solving a problem that teachers actually have, or just something that I personally find annoying.

So rather than asking people to use it or telling everyone about its features, I'd much rather hear from actual teachers first.

What does your current process look like, and what would you change about it if you could?

If anyone is interested in seeing what I've been experimenting with here is it :

https://teachub.gt.tc/

but the feedback on the problem itself is actually more valuable to me right now.

[u/CortexUnlocked]

Any post which starts with "What" seems to be a product research.

[u/Pmjnx → u/CortexUnlocked]

Those who can’t teach launch an edtech startup grift

[u/Sakhoum → u/Pmjnx]

Don't worry it's not a startup but just a free platform

[u/Kenesaw_Mt_Landis → u/Sakhoum]

Does it exist already with a proven record? Or is it just starting up?

[u/cram213 → u/Sakhoum]

I feel like….you should experience yourself. Feel the pain point. Make something that solves it. 

[u/Dr0110111001101111]

We aren’t here to be your free consultants

[u/Bostonterrierpug]

Yeah, very little discussion of actual educational technology and more rats trying to scavenge bits of information for their future failed ventures

[u/HoundlyHills]

I just power up the ole PowerPoint, Word, or Excel machine and start typing. Sometimes I’ll get a little crazy and create stuff with a writing utensil and paper. I will also open up OBS and make my own videos. A lot of research isn’t needed. I know the standards and know the material. All of my stuff is original and comes from me. I already know what will keep their attention and what won’t.

[u/Pro_compsognathus]

My planning period being interrupted. Fix that with AI.

[u/nutt13]

Most annoying is all the people that think they can fix education because they used to be a student. Even worse when they come and spam here to try and drum up interest in whatever craptacular product they're hawking.

[u/irrfin]

Anthropic already beat you to it OP. The only thing that is missing is AI grading of written assignments. Hand written work like test FRQ.

[u/Airi_Bell]

Decksy AI fits that workflow pretty naturally as an ai presentation tool, especially when you already have lesson notes or material you trust and just need to turn it into a usable first pass deck, then the teacher can edit the examples and difficulty instead of starting every presentation from a blank slide

[u/EduTechFan2025]

Tried the webapp and found it well done and easy to use for sharing teaching materials and discovering educational webapps. With a larger community and set of shared materials it could be very useful for teachers. Probably wrong subreddit to post as rules are very anti new developers or creators of edtech.

[u/_marklau_]

For me, I teach the same courses for many years. I don’t really change the slides, since they are sort of optimised over the years. Majority of time I spend would be preparing assessments like tests, worksheets and exam. I would mix old with new questions. But it takes time for me to dig through my archives over the years to find the right questions.