Students think before they write
Essay
Builder
Guided prewriting that structures thinking before a word is written.
Built in the classroom.
Made for yours.
A Socratic writing coach that forges better thinkers and equips teachers with an educational toolkit that knows their needs.
Everything a teacher needs. Nothing that gets in the way.
Real classroom solutions built from real decades of classroom experience.
This is a writing program,
not just an AI tool.
Essay
Never telling students what to do
Socratic
Feedback
Questions that coach. Not answers that do the work for students.
Time savings assignment share
Assignment
Library
Adopt assignments built by Dakoda teachers or create your own.
Custom prompts, your rubric
Rubric
Wizard
Build and apply rubrics aligned to your assignments in seconds.
Fitting how you already teach
Google
Integration
Works inside the tools your school already uses.
More time to connect
Teacher Tool
Suite
Lesson plans, text leveling, quiz generation - all in one place.
Put time back in teachers’ hands
Dakoda manages the feedback loop between assignment and draft - so your attention goes where it matters most, to the student in front of you.
A proven
method behind
every prompt
Every Dakoda assignment runs on the Dakoda Writing Protocol - a framework that separates what to write from how to write it. Not AI guessing... a method that works.
The Dakoda Writing Protocol →87%
Teachers using this method increased enrollment of students taking rigorous national level English courses to 87% compared to the national average of 10%
10%
See what the thinking before writing actually looks like
Other tools give feedback on what students wrote. Dakoda coaches students to think before they write.
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Writing is nothing more than recording your thinking. We start with the thinking.
The Dakoda Writing Protocol at a glance:
1.
Take a critical stance
Students define a position before writing a word
2.
Build the structure
Points, evidence, and synthesis planned in the Essay Builder
3.
Write with intention
Feedback on style applied to a structure already in place
Safety built from the ground up
Every district relationship starts with confidence in our data privacy practices and commitments.
FERPA
Aligned. Data segregation per district, no cross-tenant exposure.
COPPA
Aligned. Under-13 mode disables open-ended chat and limits data retention.
State student privacy
NY Ed Law 2-d, CSPC, SOPIPA aligned. Data Privacy Agreement template available.
SOC 2 Type II
Audit in progress. Type I report available now.
Data residency
US-only by default. EU residency available.
Model training
Student data is never used to train foundational models. Period.
Single sign-on
Google Workspace, Clever, ClassLink. SAML on enterprise tier.
Content moderation
Layered safety filters tuned for K-12. Teacher visibility on flagged interactions.
Ready to see it in your classroom?
Talk to us. We'll show you exactly how Dakoda works with your students, your assignments, and your schedule.