Warm-Ups That Get Students Ready to Learn (in 5 Minutes)

The first five minutes of class set the tone for everything that follows. With Crostini warm-ups, students can log in, see a short prompt, and start thinking before you even finish taking attendance.

This post shares quick, reusable routines you can drop into any subject—exit ticket follow-ups, review questions, or “one-slide” checks for understanding—so your classroom launches smoothly instead of restarting from zero every period.

• Ready in one click: pick a warm-up template and assign it to all sections at once.
• Real-time thumbnails: watch responses roll in while students work, then spotlight examples or misconceptions.
• Easy to reuse: save your best warm-ups as a bank you can pull from next week or next semester.

If your team wants to try Crostini warm-ups with your next unit, reach out—we can help you turn existing slides or handouts into quick digital starters.

Smart Feedback Tools That Save You Hours

Teachers spend countless hours writing comments that help students move forward. With new Crostini smart feedback tools, you can deliver meaningful, personalized guidance in a fraction of the time.

Our updated feedback engine analyzes student responses, highlights key misconceptions, and suggests teacher-ready comments you can review, adjust, and post instantly.

• Insightful and accurate: feedback anchored in your learning goals—not generic templates.
• Fast revision tools: edit, shorten, or turn a comment into a follow-up question with a single click.
• Better student reflection: automatically prompt students to respond, revise, or try again.

If your team wants to test smart feedback workflows, reach out—we’d love to help you bring time-saving tools into your daily teaching routine.

Micro-Courses That Actually Fit Your Week

Between grading, emails, and hallway conversations, most teachers don’t have a spare hour for PD. That’s why we’re doubling down on 15-minute micro-courses that fit between bells instead of after school.

Each Crostini micro-course focuses on one small, practical move: setting up a new activity type, reusing a favorite lesson as a self-paced path, or pulling quick data on who needs help before tomorrow’s class.

• Always classroom-first: examples built from real student work, not generic demos.
• All in one place: watch, click “Try it,” and push activities to your classes right away.
• Track progress: see which topics you’ve completed so you can share and compare with your team.

If your team wants to pilot a micro-course series, reach out to us—Crostini can help you turn your existing lessons into short, teacher-friendly learning paths.

AI Tools in the Classroom: Save 3 Hours a Week in 2025

Teachers are busier than ever. The right AI workflow can return 2–3 hours each week by trimming admin, making feedback faster, and nudging students at the right moment.

New Collaboration Features: Teachers and Students Working Together

We’re thrilled to introduce a new set of collaboration features in Crostini that help teachers and students work more closely together in the digital classroom.

• Shared Workspaces: teachers can set up group projects where students edit, brainstorm and submit in real time.
• Live Feedback: educators can leave instant comments directly on student activities, making corrections faster and clearer.
• Collaboration Metrics: dashboards now show contribution levels from each student to encourage balanced teamwork.

These tools are designed to make lessons more interactive and to give every student a voice in class projects.

We can’t wait to see how your classrooms use them!

Private messaging comes to Crostini!

Just a little over a week ago, we sent a form out to the Crostini users that have been using the product the longest, asking for feedback on features that were important to teachers.  Here's what our teachers said:

"Sometimes I wish that I could communicate with students through Crostini. While I'm monitoring students, if I could send them a message that would pop up on their screen so that they would know they were being monitored."

“I’d love a feature to write alerts on student computers to let students know to get back on task."

"I wish that there was a way in which a teacher can send a student a pop-up message on their screen when we are monitoring them."

"Sometimes you don't want to call a student out in front of the class, but even walking over and talking to them quietly draws the attention of the people at the group. It would be nice to be able to send a quick reminder by text."

This is just a small sample-  Needless to say, we heard you loud and clear! In less than a week of receiving this feedback the messaging feature is now officially active and pushed out to all Crostini users.  We hope you enjoy and we look forward to implementing more of your feature requests in the future!

Top New Features Coming Soon!

Teachers- we hear you loud and clear!  Thanks so much for helping us improve Crostini by giving us ample feedback on exactly what you want.

Based on your feedback, here are the next big features we're working on:

• The ability to easily take screenshots of student activity (that's right- no more print-screen keyboard shortcuts!)
• The ability to lock student screens ("Eyes up front, please!")
• Faster refresh times on student thumbnails

We look forward to rolling these out in the near future- let us know how they work through our normal bug reporting or via [email protected] .

Until next time,
-Jordan and Steve