I'm Math teacher, teaching myself to code - for the second time (took a BASIC programming class in high school ~20 years ago). I'm working mainly with javascript and google-apps script now.

I have two main goals for my coding work:

1) automate workflows - (lots of data entry/management) that will present data better for students to take more control of their learning and generally get more engaged - at the same time freeing up my time to focus more on higher order tasks.

2) give instant feedback to students - for process and skill development, find ways or create ways to automate immediate feedback for students so that I can spend my teaching time interacting with my students to help them engage in developing deeper knowledge.

Right now I'm focused on getting a lot of disparate applications to talk to each other - schoology (an LMS), activegrade (a standards based grading program), skyward (ancient student information system that I must maintain for students and parents), lots of google sheets/forms and a class website - so that I don't need to enter data more than once - or ideally in more than one place.

Thanks for reading and for all your help with my Code