One quick scan on an inexpensive handheld scanner records attendance, good behavior, homework, or a learning moment — without stopping the shiur. No programs to open. No systems to manage. You keep teaching, and Menchmark quietly keeps track.
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Leaderboard
LiveWhy rebbeim use it
Behavior changes with small, immediate feedback repeated over time. That's what one scan does.
One scan, right in the middle of shiur. The app runs in the background or picture-in-picture — your board stays yours, and you keep teaching normally.
A boy helps his chavrusa. A student has his finger on the place. Someone holds the door. Now it's on the record.
Everything saves to your own Google Sheet and your own device. No accounts, no subscriptions, no company holding your information.
Everything happens through one simple scan. Attendance, behavior, homework, learning — the same quick action covers all of it, without breaking your stride.
Everything Menchmark does
One scan captures attendance, behavior, homework, or a learning moment — from anywhere in the room, without stopping the shiur.
Students see it happen. Live leaderboard, standings, and a weekly podium — all while the app runs quietly in the background, not taking over your board.
A prize store, raffle wheel, or Chinese auction — every prize tracked from the moment it's earned until it's handed out.
Pesukim and Mishnayos with phrase-by-phrase translation, matching, and quizzes — built from the texts you're actually teaching.
Your roster, QR labels, seating chart, Google Sheets sync, and backup — everything you need to run your classroom your way.
How Menchmark compares
Every system gets some of these right. None of them keeps all four running.
| Record log from anywhere | Recognize students see it | Reward store, raffle, auction | Repeat survives daily use | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Menchmark |
●●●●● One scan from anywhere, even offline |
●●●●● Live leaderboard, runs in background or PIP |
●●●●● Store, raffle, Chinese auction built in |
●●●●● Nothing to restock, fill in, or lose — month seven runs like week one |
Raffle tickets |
●●●●● Must walk to student, hand ticket |
●●●●● Tangible, student holds it, class sees |
●●●●● Raffle works, but store/auction is messy |
●●●●● Tickets wear out, get lost, need restocking — when the tickets stop, the system stops |
Point chart / post-its |
●●●●● Walk to chart or desk to mark it |
●●●●● Student sees own chart, class doesn’t |
●●●●● Manual counting, no reward system |
●●●●● A week of missed entries and it’s abandoned — post-its fall off, never replaced |
Clipboard |
●●●●● Portable, but breaks eye contact |
●●●●● Students don’t see it, delayed recognition |
●●●●● Manual counting, no system at all |
●●●●● Writing every entry by hand gets old fast |
ClassDojo-style |
●●●●● Needs a smartphone away from the board |
●●●●● Sound effects, class-visible board, but takes over the whole screen |
●●●●● No built-in store, raffle, or auction |
●●●●● Nothing to restock, but opening the app for every point stops happening mid-year |
Based on almost a decade of substitute teaching across dozens of classrooms.
Who it’s for
You see the good. You scan. You keep teaching. That’s the whole system.
It stays out of your way.
No app to babble at the class, no screen between you and your talmidim. A rebbi sees a good middah, scans, and the shiur never stops.
The 5 R’s, in practice.
Record what you see, Recognize it on the board, Reward it when you’re ready, Review the material together, and Run the whole thing from one place. It’s how you already teach — just counted.
Shulchani Mode.
Run a full classroom economy — coins, denominations, a store — if that’s your style. Or keep it simple. The system bends to your room, not the other way around.
Works the way your classroom works.
Offline, on one computer, no smartphone required. Print your codes, tape them to desks, and you’re scanning by the second day.
Built by a rebbi, for the yeshiva classroom — not a tech company’s idea of one.
No smartphones in the classroom.
Menchmark runs on a simple, single-purpose scanner — no phone, no camera, no distractions. TAG-friendly technology your rebbeim and parents can be comfortable with.
Consistency across your building.
When every rebbi is recognizing middos and derech eretz the same way, your talmidim get one clear message — and a substitute can walk into any room and keep it going without missing a beat.
Made by someone who gets it.
Built by a rebbi with an MA in Jewish Education who has walked into dozens of different classrooms. This comes from the beis medrash, not a boardroom.
Yours to keep, simple to run.
It runs offline in a browser — no servers, no IT department, and no student data ever leaves your building. Start with one rebbi and grow to the whole school at your pace.
This is where Menchmark came from.
Walk in and pick up mid-stream.
The class already knows the system. You scan the same way the regular rebbi does — the routine doesn’t collapse the moment he’s out.
No setup, no scramble.
The students, the activities, the points are already there. You’re not building anything at 8:15 in the morning with a room full of boys watching.
Instant credibility.
A sub who runs the room like it’s his own earns respect fast. Menchmark hands you the tool the regular rebbi built, ready to go.
Built by a sub, for subs.
Menchmark was born walking into a different classroom every day for years, trying every points system out there. This is the one that actually survived contact with real classrooms.
From the front of the room
Testimonials coming soon.
How It Works
Four steps, and you're scanning.
Paste your class list or type names in. Each student gets his own QR code automatically — nothing to generate.
Create activities with point values — three come ready to use, so you can start on day one.
Print student labels and your activity menu. Tape them to desks, keep the menu by your side.
Arm an activity, scan a student, and the points land instantly. That's the whole motion.
Why we built this
Menchmark started with almost a decade of substitute teaching and running school-wide programs. Walking into a different classroom every day means inheriting whatever points system the regular rebbi left behind — raffle tickets in a drawer, a clipboard no one can find, post-its peeling off desks, a chart on the board that half the class ignores. None of it carried over. None of it was mine. And running programs across multiple classrooms meant tracking dozens of students' points by hand — a job that got harder every week.
As an afternoon classroom teacher — I teach math — I saw the same problem from the other side. Every September I'd start strong — tracking attendance, homework, classwork, behavior — and by mid-year it was too overwhelming to keep up. The system would quietly collapse, and the students knew it. Saying "minus one" to a boy who knows it's not being recorded doesn't work. You lose your credibility, and with it your ability to hold the room. I needed a way to record and give feedback immediately — not at the end of the period, not after class, but right then, without friction. The research is clear: behavior changes with small, immediate feedback repeated over time. But that only works if the feedback is real — if it's actually being recorded, and the student knows it.
Every system got something right and dropped the rest. Raffle tickets gave real recognition — but they disappeared into pockets. Clipboards were portable — but invisible to students. Point charts were visible — but took the rebbi away from teaching to update them. ClassDojo was instant — but needed a smartphone, wasn't easy to set up, and took over the entire board to stay visible.
So I stopped looking for the right system and built one. I took what actually worked from each — the speed of a scan on an inexpensive handheld scanner, the visibility of a leaderboard, the tangibility of a reward store — and put it into a single tool that a rebbi can run without stopping the shiur. Rebbeim in real classrooms are testing it now, and their feedback shapes every update. It's in beta — actively being built and refined. It works on your own device, saves to your own Google Sheet, needs no student logins, and runs even when the internet doesn't. Built to serve rebbeim, not to sell them anything.
— Rabbi Berel Steinerman
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