How homework works, start to finish

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1. 1Type in: Your work email
2. 2Type in: Your password
3. 3Click: Sign in

Everyone at the centre signs in at the same place. What you see next depends on your role rather than on a different address: an admin lands on the dashboard, a parent on their children, a marker on their queue.

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1. 1Click: Start here

Paper work and online work sit together here. The How column is the thing to notice: it says whether a child does this on paper, on screen, or both. You are never asked to keep two lists in your head.

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1. 1Click: Printed and handed in
2. 2Notice: Answered on screen
3. 3Notice: A linked pair

This one choice decides everything that follows, because paper and online are genuinely different machines underneath. Paper gets printed, photographed, and marked by a person or by the AI. Online is drawn from a question pool and marked the moment the child presses submit. Both sets the same work two ways and keeps the halves linked.

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1. 1Type in: Name the assignment
2. 2Click: Off means a person marks it

Turning the switch off makes this a printable worksheet that comes back to a human. Leaving it on means the child's photographed pages are read and marked automatically. That is the second real fork, and it is one switch.

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1. 1Click: Send it to this class
2. 2Notice: One or more classes

Assign it to a whole class, or narrow it to named children. Everyone in the class gets the work unless you say otherwise.

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1. 1Notice: Your own PDF
2. 2Click: One shuffled sheet per child

Upload a sheet you already have, or build one from the question bank. Building it means every child gets their own shuffled sheet with their name printed on it, which is what makes the pages identifiable when they come back as photographs.

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1. 1Notice: Child confirms the text first
2. 2Click: They hand in, you mark

Either the child confirms the typed-up version of their handwriting before you see it, or they simply hand in the pages and you do the rest. A printed worksheet never goes to the AI marker, so these are the only two options here.

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1. 1Click: Make it live
2. 2Click: Publish it

Publishing makes it visible to children and parents straight away. Saving a draft keeps it to yourself until you are ready.

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1. 1Notice: Your new assignment

The new row joins the list straight away. The How column reads On paper, so at a glance you know this one comes back as photographed pages rather than as a score.

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1. 1Click: Answered on screen
2. 2Click: On to the quiz builder

Choosing Online hands you straight to the quiz builder, because an online assignment needs things a paper one does not: a bank of questions, a pass mark, and a rule about how many goes a child gets.

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1. 1Type in: Name it
2. 2Type in: What the child reads first
3. 3Notice: Insist on the chapter

The instructions are what the child reads before they start. Linking a chapter is optional, but it lets you insist they read the teaching first, which is the difference between homework that tests and homework that teaches.

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1. 1Type in: Due date
2. 2Notice: Hide it until this date

A release date keeps the work hidden until the day you choose. A due date only flags late work for you. It never blocks a child from handing something in, which is deliberate: a missed deadline should start a conversation, not close a door.

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1. 1Type in: Questions per go
2. 2Type in: Pass mark
3. 3Click: Open the question bank

You choose a pool, and each child's attempt is drawn from it. The pool has to be bigger than the number of questions asked, so that a second go is not the same paper again. Publish stays disabled until the pool is big enough, and the page tells you how short you are.

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1. 1Notice: Goes allowed
2. 2Notice: Goes added per unlock
3. 3Notice: Wait between goes

Retry until passed is the usual choice. When a child runs out of goes the work locks itself and you are told, so nobody is quietly stuck. Unlocking adds goes; it never wipes the record of what happened.

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1. 1Notice: Whose work is this
2. 2Click: The sheet that was set

A parent sees the same work from the other side. The switcher at the top says whose work this is, which matters in a family with more than one child: everything below it changes when you switch.

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1. 1Click: Get the printable sheet

The worksheet is generated for one child and carries their name, so when the pages come back as photographs there is never a question about whose they are. Each child in the class gets their own shuffle of the same questions.

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1. 1Notice: Photos you already took
2. 2Click: Scan with the camera

Three ways in: photograph the pages, scan them with the camera so they are cropped and straightened automatically, or type the answers. Up to five pages are merged into one document for whoever marks it.

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1. 1Notice: Everything handed in so far

Further down the same page is a read-only view of the work the child does on screen. A parent can see how it is going but cannot sit it for them, which is the point.

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1. 1Click: Tap your name

Children in a school account have no separate login. The grown-up signs in, then hands the device over here. Everything past this point is the child's own view.

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1. 1Type in: Four digits

The PIN keeps one child out of another child's work on a shared tablet. A parent sets it, and can reset it from the parent area.

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1. 1Click: Open a piece of work
2. 2Notice: Set by your tutor

One row per piece of work, each carrying its own state: not started, in progress, passed, locked, or not open yet. A child never has to work out what is outstanding.

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1. 1Click: Begin

The due date, the pass mark, and how many goes are left are all on screen before the first question. Nothing about the deal is hidden until afterwards.

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1. 1Notice: Where you are
2. 2Click: Next question

A progress bar, and next and previous. Questions are drawn from the pool the tutor chose, so a second go is a fresh paper rather than the same one again.

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1. 1Click: Hand it in

Nothing is sent until then, so a child can go back and change an answer. There is no per-question commit to regret.

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1. 1Notice: Marked already
2. 2Notice: Every question, right or wrong
3. 3Click: Done

No waiting, and no teacher in the loop. The score, the pass mark, and a question by question grid appear straight away. Correct answers stay hidden, because a later go redraws from the same pool and showing them would give the next paper away.

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1. 1Notice: Locked, and why

Work locks itself once the allowance is used without passing, and whoever set it is told. The child is not left staring at a dead button: the screen says what happened and who can reopen it.

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1. 1Notice: Read the chapter first

A tutor can tie a quiz to a chapter and insist it is finished first, optionally above a minimum score. Until then the test will not open. This is the difference between homework that tests and homework that teaches.

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1. 1Click: Open the handed-in work

Work handed in on paper arrives here. The filters narrow it to a class, a kind of work, or a stage, so a marker sees what is waiting on them rather than everything the centre has ever set.

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1. 1Notice: Two pages, one piece of work
2. 2Click: Read alongside the transcript

Both pages arrive as one piece of work with the child's name on it. Compare opens them side by side with the transcript, so a marker can read the handwriting and type what it says without switching windows.

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1. 1Type in: The score
2. 2Type in: What you want them to know
3. 3Click: Save it

A score out of whatever the work is worth, a band, and a comment the family will read. Marking by hand costs no credits: only sending work to the AI marker does, and a printed worksheet never goes near it.

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1. 1Click: Choose another marker

Work can be reassigned to whoever should mark it. That is how a centre spreads marking across a team without anyone hunting through a shared inbox.

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1. 1Click: Children who are stuck

Drafts, published work, work not yet released, work already overdue, and follow-ups all sit on one list. The Test column reads as questions drawn out of pool size, so you can see at a glance which assignments are reading only and which have a quiz behind them.

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1. 1Notice: The stuck queue

When a child uses every attempt without passing, the work locks and whoever set it is notified. This is the queue of those children. It exists so that being stuck is visible to a person rather than silently absorbed by the child.