Nearpod
Delivers interactive K-12 lessons with quizzes, polls, collaborative boards, and multimedia content for Microsoft Teams.
NearpodPrice not published
Beedle Classroom & Parent Engagement in Teams
by BEEDLEMicrosoft 365Free
Adds classroom, planning, assessment, attendance, and parent engagement tools inside Microsoft Teams.
PRICINGFree
DEPLOYMENTCloud
CATEGORYCollaboration
UPDATED ON MARKETPLACE
What it does
Beedle adds classroom, planning, assessment, attendance, messaging, announcements, and parent engagement features to Microsoft Teams. Teachers can manage student journals, attendance, lesson plans, curriculum objectives, assignments, assessments, and grade books. Parents use a free mobile app on iOS and Android to view assignments, announcements, shared journal entries, attendance information, calendars, and notifications. Parent information can be maintained through School Data Sync, spreadsheet imports, or manual data entry.
Key capabilities
from the Microsoft Marketplace listingStudent Journals
Educators can record behavior, reflections, and notes, then search, filter, tag, and share journal entries.
Attendance Tracking
Teachers can register presence and manage absences, while parents can view records, receive absence alerts, and report absences through the parent app.
Teacher-Parent Messaging
Teachers communicate through Teams chat and parents reply through the Beedle Parent App.
Lesson Planning
Teachers can create and organize lesson plans with Teams Assignments, digital resources, and Curriculum Objectives.
Assessment And Grading
Educators can track formative Assessment and maintain digital grade books with ad-hoc grading and objective-based evaluation.
Parent Assignment Views
The parent app displays assigned, handed-in, and returned work with due dates, instructions, attachments, feedback, and grades synced from Teams.
School Data Imports
Parent information can be maintained through School Data Sync, spreadsheet imports, or manual data entry.
Multi-Student Management
Families can manage information for more than one child, including children attending different schools.
Use cases
- Parents can receive school announcements and customized notifications through the mobile app.
- Teachers can create random groups, select students at random, and export class or group lists for classroom planning.
Who it's for
Teachers, educators, students, parents, guardians, and school colleagues.
How it compares
Beedle is listed as free, while Jamf Business Plan is listed as paid; both are listed as cloud deployments. Beedle was updated on Dec 2025, while Nearpod shows Apr 2026 and Jamf Business Plan shows May 2026. The alternatives do not include stated capabilities in the supplied catalog data.
| Name | Pricing | Deployment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| this plugin | Free | Cloud | |
| Jamf Business Plan | Not in catalog | ||
| Nearpod | Price not published | Cloud | |
In the catalog
957 plugins in Microsoft 365 · Collaboration
Price distribution: 19 free, 11 freemium, 100 paid, 827 price not published
Pricing & deployment
Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Microsoft Teams
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Free
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What the vendor says
«Beedle extends Microsoft Teams with a powerful suite of tools for schools, streamlining classroom management, supporting student success, and strengthening the school-home connection, all within the familiar Teams environment. While teachers and students work in Teams, parents stay informed through a free mobile app …»