Chalk Talk was built by a mechanical engineering student at UT Dallas with a 4.0 GPA. It started as the way she studies; teacher tools make it work for the whole class. Read her story
For teachers and professors · free
Less time prepping. More time teaching.
Upload your notes, slides and old exams once. Chalk Talk drafts your lesson plans, quizzes with answer keys and study guides in your own style, grades scanned exams against your rubric, and sends the grades to Canvas. Your students study from your real material with one class code.
Free for teachers at any level, from high school to college. Sign up with any email, no card needed.
answer key included!
Quiz 4 · Version A20 min · 20 pts
- A 3 m beam has a pin at A and a roller at B. A 400 N load acts 2 m from A. Find the reaction at B. (10 pts)
Answer: By = 266.7 N. ΣMA = 0: By(3) − 400(2) = 0.
Rubric: FBD 3 · moment equation 4 · answer with units 3 - Which support gives two reaction forces in 2D? (2 pts)
Watch the guide for teachers
Scan, grade, send to Canvas
Snap a stack of exams with your phone, grade every paper against your rubric, and send the grades to Canvas. Plus slides, quizzes and lesson plans from your notes.
Guides for students, teachers and parents →How it works
Your material stays the source of truth. Chalk Talk drafts, you review and edit, and nothing reaches students until you share it.
Upload your material
Syllabus, lecture notes, slides, homework and old exams. PDFs, photos and documents all work.
Make what you need
Pick the sections and the level, then make a lesson plan, a quiz, a study guide or a review session.
Share with your class
Students join with a 6-letter code. Download anything for Word or print it for class.
What Chalk Talk writes for you
Built from your own notes, using your notation, units and the way you write problems.
Lesson plans
Goals, a minute-by-minute plan, board notes, worked examples, a check for understanding and homework.
Quizzes and exams
New questions in your style, up to 3 versions with new numbers, plus answer keys and partial-credit rubrics.
Study guides
What to know for the exam, the formulas and rules, practice with answers and an "I can" checklist.
Review sessions
A timed plan for exam review built around the hardest topics, with warm-ups and exam-style problems.
Practice problem sets
Up to 25 problems at the difficulty you pick, every numeric answer checked by code before you see it.
Lecture slides
Slides with worked examples and speaker notes. Present them on a chalkboard right in your browser, or download any handout for Word.
Lecture slides, on a chalkboard.
Pick the sections and the class length. Chalk Talk makes the slides from your notes: goals, the key ideas, two or three worked examples and a quick check at the end. Every slide has speaker notes.
- Present right in the browser, full screen, with the arrow keys or a clicker.
- Worked examples show the problem first, then the solution on the next click.
- Press N to see your speaker notes while you teach.
Grade a stack of exams, then send the grades to Canvas
Scan the papers, grade them against your rubric, check every score, and post grades and feedback to your Canvas assignment.
- Write your own rubric, or have one drafted from your answer key that you edit before grading. Reuse it for the next section or the makeup exam.
- Upload one PDF per student, or phone photos of each page.
- Every criterion is scored separately, with partial credit and a comment for the student.
- Anything hard to read is flagged for you. You review each paper beside the scan and have the final say.
- See the class average and which questions students missed most, then download a CSV or send grades straight to Canvas.
- Keep a gradebook: every graded exam in one table, one row per student, with averages.
Exam 2 · Paper 4 of 31
17 / 20
Q1 · Free-body diagram5 / 5
Q1 · Moment equation4 / 5
Q2 · Support reactions8 / 10 · check
Send to Canvas
Your class, in one place
Give students one code. They get your notes, your exam dates and everything you share, and every Chalk Talk study tool works from your material.
- Students study from your real notes, not whatever they found online.
- Post exam dates and the sections on each exam, plus announcements.
- Share quizzes, study guides and problem sets, with the answer key shown or hidden.
- Students' own work stays private. Teachers see class totals only.
- Works for high school, AP and dual credit, and college courses.
Class code
K7M2QX
Exam 2 · Fri, Dec 4Moments · Equilibrium
Quiz 4 practiceQuestions only
Study guide: Exam 2With answers
Students join free
4.0
Is it really free for teachers?
Yes. Teacher tools are free, with a limit of 40 drafts a day. Students join your class for free too, and can upgrade to Chalk Talk Pro for unlimited lessons if they want.
Do I need a school email?
No. Sign up with any email and pick "Teacher or professor" as your account type. Student accounts are for learning only, so pick Teacher when you sign up.
Will the drafts match my class?
They're written from the material you upload, so they use your notation, units and topics. Add old exams and quizzes and new questions follow how you write them. You review and edit everything before students see it.
What do students see?
Your class name, your notes, exam dates, announcements and anything you choose to share. You decide whether a quiz or handout shows the answer key.
How does grading work?
Make or draft a rubric, upload the scanned exams, and Chalk Talk scores each criterion with partial credit and a comment. Hard-to-read work gets flagged. You review every paper beside its scan, change any score, then download a CSV or send the grades and feedback to a Canvas assignment. Scans stay in your account and you can delete them anytime.
What about student privacy?
Students' own questions, answers and scores stay private to them. As a teacher you see how many students joined, never one student's work.
Which subjects and levels?
Any class with material to upload, from high school to college. It's especially strong for STEM like chemistry, physics, calculus and engineering.
Get your evenings back.
Any email works. Pick "Teacher or professor" when you sign up.