Homework

Overview

1. Compose from the library, your own question bank, AI drafts, or by hand.
2. Assign to one or more batches, or to chosen students, now or at a set time.
3. Students answer on their phone or laptop, with a helper beside any question they're stuck on. Objective answers are marked the moment they hand in.
4. Check written answers question by question. The AI suggests a mark; you approve it or change it.
5. Return results, and see which questions tripped the class.
6. Follow up: one click sends each student who went wrong a short set of fresh questions on exactly what they missed.

1. Compose

Press New homework. The composer has three parts: the library on the left, the worksheet in the middle (drawn the way it will print), and the Engine on the right.

Where questions come from

Let the engine compose

Tick the chapters you want in the library, say how many objective, short answer and long answer questions, and how hard — then press Generate. The engine:

• spreads the questions across the chapters you ticked, instead of taking them all from the first;
• keeps the difficulty mix you asked for, borrowing from the nearest level when one runs out — and tells you;
• orders each kind from easy to hard;
• never puts the same question on the sheet twice, and, if you pick a batch under Skip questions already set to, never one that batch has had;
• tells you plainly when the library has fewer questions than you asked for, rather than padding. Tick Let AI fill the gaps to have the rest drafted.

Working on the sheet

Every question on the sheet has its tools beside it: swap it for another like it (same chapter, same kind, same level), edit it, change its marks, move it up or down, or remove it. You can also open any chapter in the library and add questions one at a time. The balance panel shows marks, time, difficulty, kinds and chapters as you go. Print gives an A4 worksheet; With key prints it with the answers.

2. Assign

Press Assign. Pick one or more batches — or one batch and chosen students — when it goes out (now or later) and when it's due. Due times are India time. Students are notified the moment it goes out, and you get a message ready to paste into your class WhatsApp group, with a link that opens the homework.

• Close at the deadline: after the due time, nobody can hand it in. Otherwise late work is accepted and marked late.
• Shuffle for each student: each student gets their own order of questions and options. Worked solutions are relabelled to match what each student saw.
• Tell parents: linked parents hear when it's set and when it's checked.

When students see answers

Written answers always wait for you: students see your feedback once you return their work.

3. What students do

Students open the homework from the notification, from Homework in their sidebar, or from their Assignments list. Every answer saves as they go. If they're stuck, the helper is one tap away (below). Written answers can be typed, or photographed from their notebook — from the laptop, or by scanning a QR code with their phone. Handing in is one deliberate step, with a warning if anything is blank.

Once answers are revealed they see each question marked, the right answer, the worked solution, the usual mistake, and — for a wrong option from the exam bank — why that option was tempting and wrong. Wrong objective answers go to their Error Book to revise later.

The homework helper

Every question has a Stuck? Get help button. It opens the helper beside the question (a sheet from the bottom on a phone) and gives help one step at a time, so a student takes only as much as they need:

1. Nudge: what the question is really asking, and which idea it tests.
2. Hint: the question's own hint where it has one, otherwise a pointer to the first step of the method.
3. Concept: the idea as the chapter teaches it, with a link to read that chapter.
4. Worked example: a different question on the same idea, fully solved. The question comes first and the solution only on request.

Beside the steps, with full help on:

• Check my working (multiple-choice and number questions): the student types their steps or adds up to three photos of them, and the helper points to the first step that goes wrong. It never says whether the final answer is right. Two checks per question.
• Plan my answer (written questions): the points a full-marks answer covers, as questions for the student to answer in their own words.
• Review my draft (written questions): what their answer already covers and what it still needs. It never writes any of it for them.
• Ask: a short conversation about the question. Asking "is (b) right?" or "what's the answer?" gets a kind refusal and an offer of the next step.

After the answers are revealed, a wrong answer gets Explain my mistake: what the student probably thought, where it went wrong, and how to spot it next time, with follow-up questions allowed. The student's own guide to all of this is Homework help; share it with your class.

Full help, hints only, or off

You choose when you assign (and in each Autopilot plan), and can change it any time from the homework's header:

What you see: in the Class grid, a small violet dot marks every question a student used help on. Hover it to see which help. The Questions tab says, for each question, how many students used the helper, how many asked before answering, and how far up the steps they went. A question many needed help with before answering is one worth teaching again. You see which help a student used, never what they typed. Using help never costs marks.

4. Track the class

Open a homework to see who has handed it in, who is working on it, who hasn't started and — after the deadline — who is missing. The Class tab is a grid of every student against every question: right, part marks, wrong, blank, or waiting to be checked. Hover a square to see what the student answered.

Remind nudges everyone in the audience who hasn't handed in (and, if you choose, their parents); you can remind a class at most every three hours. You can change the due date at any time.

5. Check written answers

The Check tab works one question at a time, the way teachers mark: every student's answer to Q6, then Q7. The model answer and your rubric sit at the top. Suggest marks with AI reads each answer (photos included) and proposes a mark and a line of feedback, with how sure it is. Approve one with Accept AI, change the mark and save, or Approve all once you've read them. Nothing the AI suggests counts, or reaches the student, until you approve it.

6. Return results

Return results gives back every script whose answers are all checked; any with an answer still unchecked stay with you, and the message says how many. Once you've returned a class, a late script is returned the moment you finish checking it. The Questions tab shows each question's accuracy, most-missed first — including the wrong option most of the class chose, which is usually the thing to go over in class.

7. Fix-up homework

Fix-up homework looks at everyone who handed in and went wrong. For each question a student missed, it finds a fresh question on the same topic from the library — never one they've already been set — and sends each student their own short set. Students who got everything right get nothing. Where the library has no new question on that topic, the original is set again, marked "try again". Answers show the moment they hand in.

Autopilot

New autopilot sets homework by itself: pick a batch, the chapters it should draw from, how many of each kind, the days and time it goes out, and when it's due. Each homework is prepared a day ahead, so you can open it and swap questions before it goes out. It never repeats a question the batch has had; when a chapter runs dry it says so on the plan instead of repeating. Add the next chapter as you teach it. Send one now sends the next one immediately; Pause stops it without losing anything.

The assignment helper

Projects, essays and file-upload assignments (the ones you create under a batch's Assignments) have a helper too, inside the assignment on the student's side. It works in five steps:

1. Understand: your instructions and rubric as a checklist to tick off, what exactly to hand in, the length if you set one, and anything worth asking you.
2. Plan: milestones from today to the due date, with a reminder at each one if the student wants it.
3. Get started: the key terms, the questions their work should answer, and chapters from the library to read first.
4. Review: feedback on their draft (typed, or photos of paper pages) against your requirements. It never writes any of it for them.
5. Submit: a last look before handing in (unticked requirements, the length, file types and sizes, and whether their photos are readable). The submit button asks once if anything is off, and stops a file that can't be handed in: a type the upload doesn't take, over 10 MB, or more than ten files.

When you open a batch's submissions, you see which of these steps each student used, never what they wrote. Photos sent for a review or a readability check are looked at once and not stored.

Where it shows up elsewhere

Each homework becomes an ordinary assignment when it goes out, so it appears in the student's Assignments, the course page, the parent's view of their child, the deadline reminders, at-risk flags and your analytics — scored as a percentage, so averages across old and new assignments still mean the same thing. Homework set to chosen students is only ever shown to, reminded to, or counted against those students.

The rules it keeps

• Work not handed in is not a zero. The class average and each question's accuracy count only students who handed in and whose answers are checked; missing work is listed separately.
• Blank, unchecked and zero are different. A blank written answer scores 0 without troubling you; an unchecked one never quietly counts as 0.
• Objective answers are marked by rule, never by a model. Numbers match to the precision of your answer (or within your ± allowance); a blank ignores case, spacing and quotes.
• Homework already handed out never changes when you edit the saved homework — each assignment keeps its own copy of the questions.
• A student's submitted work is never destroyed. Homework can be withdrawn only while nobody has handed it in.
• The helper never gives the answer before you reveal it, and it follows your setting everywhere, including a question's own hint.

Questions

Can a batch teacher use it? Yes — anyone assigned to teach a batch can set, check and return homework for it.

Can students change their answers after handing in? No. Handing in is final, which is why the student sees a warning first.

What about paper homework? Print the worksheet. Students can photograph their notebook pages as their written answers, or you can use Answer Sheets for a written test.

Does using the helper cost marks? No. You can see who used it, and on which questions, and that is where it's useful: it shows you what to teach again.

Can I switch the helper off for one homework? Yes. Choose Off when you assign, or click the helper setting in the homework's header. It applies straight away, even to students who are part-way through.

Does the helper use AI for students under 18? Only as your school's consent settings allow. Where a parent's consent is required and not yet given, the student still gets the nudge, hint, concept and worked example (these are written about the question, not about the student). Checking their working, reviews, asking and follow-up questions on a mistake wait for consent.

How is this different from DPPs and tests? Tests are timed and scored for rank; homework is practice with feedback and follow-up. Autopilot is the daily-practice (DPP) workflow.