Sub Mode

Emergencies don’t wait for sub plans.
Yours is already written.

Cedarboard turns the lesson you already planned into a complete substitute packet — so an unexpected absence never becomes a lost day of learning. One link, and the office opens it without an account, a password, or an app.

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You know exactly how this morning goes

You wake up and you know you can't teach today. Before you can rest, there's a day to produce for someone who has never met your class — a plan, the student work, something for the ones who finish early, and a note about the kid who needs to sit near the door.

So you sit up in bed and type it into an email at 6:15, hoping the office reads it in time. Or you don't, and the day becomes a worksheet packet and a lost lesson.

That is the morning Cedarboard was built for.

Three steps, about a minute

One tap builds the packet

A minute-by-minute script written for a stranger — not your shorthand. Plus the student work, backup plans for early finishers, and an answer key kept sealed in its own file.

Your sub needs no account

The office and your substitute get one link. No sign-up, no password, no app to install. It opens on whatever they're holding.

You watch it land

Sent → Opened → Accepted, live on your phone. When someone taps “I've got this,” you know your class is covered — and you go back to sleep.

This is what your sub actually opens

An excerpt from a real packet Cedarboard built for a Grade 4 lesson on needs and wants.

Sub packet · Needs vs. Wants · Grade 4

Grade: 4 · Subject: Financial Literacy · Class length: 45 minutes

Read this first (2 minutes)

Goal of the class: Students sort items into needs and wants, give a reason for each, and build a $25 spending plan that pays for needs first.

Everything you need is in this packet. No textbook, no prior lesson, no technology required. Just the board, pencils, and copies of the “Student work” page.

Heads-up about this age group: Grade 4 students love to debate and will want to tell you their own opinion about money. That’s fine — the debate is the lesson. Keep examples about the made-up people in the handout rather than real families; if a student starts describing their own household, one easy redirect is: “Let’s turn that into an example about a person at the store.”

Copies located: ____ · Attendance: ____ · Front office: ____

Real output from Cedarboard, shown as generated.

The details that matter at 6 a.m.

✓Works from your phone in bed — nothing here needs a laptop.
✓Written for a stranger: no jargon, no assumed routines, timings on every section.
✓The answer key is never in the student copy. It downloads as its own file.
✓Add more recipients later without cancelling — the link everyone already has keeps working.
✓If nobody has accepted the night before, Cedarboard tells you rather than letting you find out at 7 a.m.
✓Substitutes and office staff are never asked to make an account. Not now, not ever.
✓Free to try: 3 Sub Mode packets a month on the free plan — enough for a whole illness, not just one day — and unlimited on Pro.

Built to work without student information

Cedarboard never asks for student names, grades, or records — there is nowhere to put them. Class needs are counted, never identified. That is a decision about how the product is built, not a setting.

Set it up on a day you feel fine.