Custom apps for schools
Focused tools for the workflows your SIS, LMS, and vendor platforms do not handle well.
Educator-led app development
Custom apps for teachers and schools.
Second Bell builds, hosts, and supports practical school software through a team led by a teacher and technology leader. We move faster and more affordably by pairing deep school experience with modern AI-assisted development.
- Build
- Custom tools
- Host
- Stable deployments
- Support
- Teacher-ready help
School workflow
From need to supported app
Teacher need
A real workflow that existing tools do not solve.
Modern build
Focused scope, fast iteration, and current development practices.
Supported launch
Hosting, documentation, maintenance, and a clear help path.
What we do
School software without the enterprise drag.
Schools often know exactly what would help teachers, but the path from idea to usable software is slow, expensive, or unclear. Second Bell gives schools a smaller, sharper way to build.
Hosting and support
Deployment, maintenance, documentation, and teacher-ready support for school-built or custom applications.
Consulting and advising
Practical guidance on when to buy, when to build, and how to turn a good idea into a durable tool.
Promising internal tool
Useful, but fragile
Clarify ownership and requirements
Harden permissions, hosting, and data handling
Document workflows for teachers and admins
Create a support and maintenance path
Managed app support
Turn useful school tools into supported software.
Some schools already have useful prototypes or internal tools. The problem is making them reliable enough for real users. We help schools move from a promising app to something documented, hosted, maintained, and ready for daily use.
- Led by a teacher and school technology leader
- Built around real school workflows, permissions, and support needs
- Faster, more affordable development with modern AI-assisted engineering
- Designed for teacher trust, not generic software demos
Our apps
Products shaped by real Canvas workflows.
Second Bell also builds its own teacher tools. These products are designed around the same standard as our custom work: useful, durable, and clear enough for busy teachers to trust.
Coming soon
Second Bell Feedback
A Canvas SpeedGrader assistant that drafts rubric-aware feedback while keeping the teacher in control.
- Rubric-aware feedback drafts
- Review-before-apply guardrails
- Built for Canvas grading workflows
Second Bell Feedback
SpeedGrader assistant
Rubric match
Uses assignment criteria and teacher preferences.
Feedback draft
Clear strengths, next step, and evidence from the work.
Guardrails
Warnings stay visible before anything reaches Canvas.
Teacher edits saved
AI drafts stay transparent. The final feedback is still the teacher's decision.
Coming soon
Second Bell Quiz Converter
A quiz conversion tool that turns PDFs, Word docs, pasted text, and older exports into Canvas-ready imports.
- PDF, DOCX, TXT, QTI, and Moodle inputs
- Answer key detection and review
- Canvas import files without QTI knowledge
How we work
A practical path from idea to launch.
01
Diagnose the workflow
We map the actual school process, the people involved, and where current tools are slowing teachers down.
02
Build the first useful version
We keep scope tight, ship quickly, and focus on the smallest product that can prove the workflow.
03
Pilot with real users
Teachers and administrators test the tool in context while we refine language, permissions, and edge cases.
04
Host, document, and support
The tool gets a stable home, clear documentation, and a support path that does not depend on one person remembering how it works.
Led by an educator
Built by someone who has lived the school side of the problem.
Second Bell is led by Chris Meehan, a teacher and academic technology leader who has worked across classrooms, school systems, global education technology programs, and school operations. That context shapes the product work: tools need to be technically sound, but they also need to fit a teacher's day, a school's constraints, and the trust that education work requires.
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Have an app your teachers need?
Send a short note about the workflow, the people who need it, and what currently gets in the way. We can help decide whether to build, improve, host, or support the right next version.