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Guide 9

Read a class summary and act on it

After marking, a drafted summary of how the work went, focus points with the evidence behind each one, students to watch, and suggested next steps. Only you see it.

Marking tells you who got what. The class summary answers the question that actually changes your next lesson: what did this work reveal, and what should I do about it? There are two kinds, and both are visible only to teachers.

The summary for one piece of work

Inside a delivery, Class summary reads the marked work and drafts how it went in plain terms. It leads with focus points, and each one carries its evidence: not "the class found protocols hard" but the question it showed up in and the pass rate behind the claim. Every number comes from the marking itself; the summary never invents a statistic.

A delivery's class summary: focus points with the evidence behind each one, and students to watch beneath.

Beneath the focus points, Students to watch names the students whose results deserve a look, each with the reason stated. It is a prompt for your professional judgement, not a verdict: the summary never ranks students or labels anyone, and what you do with it stays entirely with you. Class performance ranks the questions to look at first and the strongest, and the Full write-up is there when you want prose rather than a scan.

Mark first, then read. The summary works from marked evidence, so it is thin before marking is done and marks itself stale when new work arrives, with one button to generate an updated version.

The summary for the class

In Recently set work, the class-level summary does the same job across everything set in the last few weeks, and states its coverage plainly: how many students and how many pieces of work it is based on. Suggested next steps come out concrete: a starter to run, a topic to reteach, an extension activity for the students who cruised it. This is the one to skim before planning, or before writing anything for a parents' evening.

The class-level summary: coverage stated, focus points across recent work, and next teaching actions.

Every summary is labelled AI-drafted and stays where only staff can see it. It is drafted from anonymised evidence, checked by you, and sent nowhere.

For the day-to-day view between pieces of work, see the class progress matrix.