DigiKitTools for Teachers and Educators
6 tools useful for grade conversion, summarizing, and preparing materials.
A meaningful part of teaching is preparing and organizing material. GPA Converter does a quick translation between grading systems (the Turkish scale and the 4.0 scale, for instance), and Text Summarizer helps you get through a long article before turning it into classroom material. Word Counter checks whether an assignment or essay actually fits the required length. Merge PDF brings several sets of lecture notes into one file, and PDF Compressor brings that file down to a size you can actually email. QR Code Generator is a quick way to share a link to a resource or a form with a class.
What are these tools good for?
A lot of a teacher's time outside the classroom goes into preparing materials, sorting files and answering student questions. This collection helps those jobs take less time.
- GPA Converter: When a student applying for a master's program, exchange or scholarship asks what their 100-point average looks like on a 4.0 scale. For an exact figure, the student's own university table is what counts.
- Text Summarizer: Pull a short reading handout from a long article, or quickly judge whether a source suits your lesson.
- Word Counter: Match reading passages to your class level, and check whether student essays stay within the word limit.
- Merge PDF: Combine weekly worksheets, an answer key and a reading passage into one lesson pack.
- PDF Compressor: For scanned exams or image-heavy slides that are too large for your school's learning platform or the parents' group.
- QR Code Generator: Put a video, an online quiz or an extra resource on a worksheet. Students scan it instead of typing a long address.
A sample workflow
A science teacher is building materials for a climate unit. She shortens a long science article with the Text Summarizer and uses the Word Counter to check it suits her students' level. A link to a documentary episode becomes a QR code in the corner of the worksheet. The reading, worksheet and assessment questions go into one file with Merge PDF. If it comes out too big, the PDF Compressor shrinks it before she uploads it to the class platform.
Tip
Automatic summaries pick key sentences but don't always keep the context. Read the summary through once before handing it out and add any missing definitions yourself. Test every QR code with your phone before printing, and make sure the link points to a page that will stay put. If you reuse the same pack every year, choosing sources with stable links saves you work later.