Working with schoolwork
Upload, paste or describe it, check what we found, and decide how it fits into the week.
Three ways to add work
From the Schoolwork tab, tap Add work and choose how you want to bring it in.
- Upload - a photo of a worksheet, a PDF, or a Word doc.
- Paste - straight from a doc or email, when you already have the text.
- Describe - tell us what you'd like and we'll write the questions. Handy when the textbook is at school and you want extra practice on a topic.
Checking what we found
We read the work, pull out each question and link it to the skills it practises. It runs in the background - usually under a minute - and you can leave the page while it does.
You'll then see every question with Approve and Reject. Only approved questions reach your student. Anything you leave untouched stays out of their sessions, and if we missed a question you can add it yourself.
Once your student has answered a question from a piece of work, it's locked: nothing about it can change, because their answers are part of their record.
Blocked questions
Some questions can't be done on screen yet - labelling a diagram we couldn't capture, say, or drawing something by hand. We keep those in the list, marked Blocked with the reason, so you can see what was left out rather than wondering where question 7 went. They never reach your student.
Worksheets and assignments
A worksheet is a set of questions, and your student answers those questions. An assignment is a bigger task - an essay, a report, a project brief.
For an assignment we don't do the task for them. We work out which skills it needs, teach any they're missing first, then give them a practice piece on a different topic that uses the same skills. They do the real assignment themselves, better prepared.
We decide which it is when we read the work. If we got it wrong, use Reanalyse on the review screen. That reads it again the other way and counts as a new upload.
When it isn't schoolwork
If what you added doesn't set a task for a student - a form, a bill, a letter, a screenshot of an app - we'll say so and stop there, rather than inventing questions from it. Nothing is added to the plan, and an upload like that doesn't count towards your monthly limit.
If we got it wrong and it really is schoolwork, you can add the questions yourself from the same screen.
Do this first, or mix in normally
Approved work normally mixes in with everything else: a few questions at a time, between lessons and practice, soonest due first. That way a big worksheet never crowds out the rest of the session.
If something is due tomorrow, choose Do this first on the work. Its questions then lead the session, ahead of the warm-up and any other homework.
Taking work back out
Remove from the plan stops a piece of work being scheduled without deleting anything, and you can put it back at any time. Anything your student already answered stays in their history.
Delete removes it completely. That's only possible before your student has answered any of it - after that, remove it from the plan instead.