Every unit's links in one place your students can actually use

The bookmarks bar stopped scrolling years ago

There is a folder called Science, and inside it a folder called Science 2, and inside that the simulation you use for the density unit every February. You find it by muscle memory in about forty seconds while thirty people watch. The colleague who asks for it gets a link pasted in an email, which is the eleventh time that link has been pasted into an email this year.

Teaching links are unusual in one way: they are reused annually and accumulated permanently. A ten-year teacher has a working set of maybe two hundred genuinely good resources buried under two thousand saved-once ones, organized by nothing, on one laptop, sometimes in a school account that gets reset over the summer.

Links you reuse every single year should not live in a bar that ran out of room in year three.

A board per class, categories per unit

The structure writes itself: a board for each class you teach, categories for each unit, one level of subcategories if a unit needs to separate readings from simulations from assessments. Next year you copy nothing - the board is already the plan, and updating a dead link updates it for every year after.

Boards hold more than links, which fits how a unit actually works. A text block can hold the standards you are covering or a note about which resource replaced the one that went behind a paywall. A checklist can hold the prep steps for a lab, with a recurring cadence if you run it every term.

Sharing a clean list, not your whole account

Sharing is where most teacher setups fail. Sending the bookmarks folder shares everything; sending the links in an email creates a message that ages out of the inbox in a week; putting them on a class site means editing a class site.

In Linksley you share the board itself with specific people at view-only, and the cap is enforced in the app and in the browser extension. That covers a co-teacher, a student teacher, a department, or a parent who asked for the reading list. If you want a genuinely public page - a clean URL a class can open with no account at all - that is the public boards feature, and creating one is on the Business plan. A single teacher on the Individual or Family plan can share boards with named people instead, or use the export button to hand over a standard bookmarks HTML file that anyone can import into their own browser. It is worth being straight about which of those you need before you pick a plan.

Fixing the bar you already have

You do not have to start clean. Import a browser bookmarks HTML file and it arrives as a board with your folders as categories - the ten years of accumulation, suddenly sortable. From there, the bookmarks-bar manager lets you tidy the bar itself, mirror it, and restore it if a browser update or a school-managed profile wipes it, which is a genuine annual event in a lot of districts.

If the bar itself is the immediate problem, organize bookmark bar is the shorter version of this.

What it does not do

Linksley is not an LMS. It does not take attendance, collect work, or push assignments - if your school runs Google Classroom or Canvas, this week's assignment links belong there. Boards are for the durable set: the resources you will still be using in four years. There is no mobile app, and no Safari extension, so an iPad-first classroom will be using the web app in a browser rather than anything native. And there are no ads on any plan, including the free one, which is not true of every free link page a student might be sent to.