Crop-It! (2024 – present) – is made possible through a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program, as part of the Agile Teacher Lab team.
Crop-it! is a teaching tool where teachers create activities that revolve around a single focus picture and several questions/prompts. Students answer the prompts by cropping the picture and supporting their answer with a short written explanation. The student response can then be turned in as a PDF, or graded as a digital submission. Since 2025, teachers have been able to view all student responses to a specific activity with an activity-specific link.
Crop-it is under active development and maintenance, and we use data from teacher and student use of crop-it to develop new research and further refine crop-it. Crop-it has a lightweight PHP backend, an SQLite database, and uses vanilla client-side Javascript to keep things performant and lightweight. We use Python for analyzing data and creating usage reports.