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Monitoring homework completion

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Sparx Science provides several tools to help you monitor your students' homework completion and progress. This article explains the different ways you can track homework completion, from whole-school down to individual student level.

Get a quick overview of current homework completion for all of your classes via the Home page

  • When you log in to your Sparx Science site, you'll be taken to the home page

  • The 'Homework hand-in' section shows how many student have completed, partially completed or not started their homework for every class that you're linked to in Class Manager or you can view 'all classes'

  • You can link teachers to classes in Class Manager

See live homework completion data via the Hand-in page

For your chosen class, the Hand-in page shows each student's homework completion progress for the current week and information that can help you to identify when students might be struggling, or due praise.

  • Access the Hand-in page from the main menu

  • Choose the class that you want to work with, from the class selector in the header

  1. The Completion bar against each student shows how much of their compulsory homework they've completed

    • Green sections show the proportion of questions answered correctly

    • Red sections show the proportion of questions answered incorrectly

    • Grey sections show the proportion of questions not yet answered

  2. Working time shows you approximately how much time each student has spent completing their homework

  3. Completion day tells you whether and when each student completed their homework (relative to the hand-in day). You may also see 'Not opened' where the student didn't access this week's homework, or 'Late' when the student completed the homework after the hand-in date and time.

  4. Answers will take you to the students answer history for that week's homework

  5. IL challenge shows completion of their weekly IL challenge

  6. The Previous completion column gives you an at-a-glance view of up to 5 weeks' previous compulsory homework for each student (a green tick signifying 100% completion and a percentage indicating incomplete homework). You can also see all of the above information for previous weeks, using the week tabs at the top of the page.

See the question and answer history for a specific student

For a given student and homework week, the Student Answer History page allows you to see detailed information about the student's activity in Sparx Science. From the Hand-in Page, click on the student's completion bar or using the 'view' button.

Get updates about planned homework and students' homework progress via email

In Class Manager, you can link teachers to classes and enable teacher emails. This will send one type of email per week to the teacher.

Planned homework email

  • Sent 3 days before homework is set

  • Subject: Homework topics are about to be set for X classes

  • Includes a reminder of topics included

  • Link to Planner page to make any changes before homework is set


Frequently asked questions

Why am I not receiving teacher emails?

Please check:

  • That your email address is correct in Staff Manager

  • That the emails aren't being sent to your spam or junk email folder

  • That teacher emails are enabled for all of your classes in Class Manager

  • That your school network isn't blocking emails from @sparx.co.uk and @sparx-learning.com domains

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