Single Sign On (SSO) allows teachers and students to access all Sparx systems with just one set of login credentials, simplifying the login process and saving time.

See Setting up single sign-on (login with Google / Microsoft) for more information.

To enable your colleagues to use Sparx Science, you'll need to set up Sparx Science accounts for them.

See Adding updating and removing staff members more information.

It's also important that you keep us updated about certain key contacts in your school (e.g. your finance contact, your IT contact etc.) so that we can ensure that important communications get sent to the right person.

See Adding, updating and removing key contacts for more information.

It's important that all teaching staff understand how to use Sparx Science in order that it's working the best that it can for your school. We provide a short training programme which helps users to familiarise with all of the key features of Sparx Science.

If you don't want to set homework during the school holidays, setting up your school holiday dates makes this easier.

See How to add or adjust holiday dates? for more information.

In order for Sparx Science to set homework automatically with minimal teacher intervention, you'll need to set up the schemes of learning that your classes will follow.

See Managing schemes of learning for more information.

Sparx Science imports your classes and students from your MIS and keeps them in sync automatically. This connection is shared across Sparx systems so may already be connected if your school already uses another Sparx system. You will need to allow the correct permissions on your Wonde portal.

See Connecting to your MIS for more information.

We send weekly homework update emails to parents/carers to keep them informed of their child's progress. Our research shows that on-time hand-in rates are significantly higher (15%) at schools where these are enabled. Please note the Parent Emails feature requires the appropriate permission to be approved in your MIS.

See Adding Parent Emails for more information.

You'll need to choose which classes to import from your school's MIS, into Sparx Science. When you import classes, all students in those classes will be imported too.

See Importing classes & students for more information.

You can set students to higher and separate science where appropriate. We exclude higher-only questions from students' homework unless the Higher setting is turned on (and the same for Separate).

There are some final setup steps that you'll need to complete before turning on homework for your classes, so we know when to set the homework, when it's due to be handed in and what topics to put into the homework.

See Scheduling homework for more information.

To ensure that your students hit the ground running when they receive their first Sparx Science homework, we strongly recommend that you show them how Sparx Science works, and verify that they can all log in, before you set their first homework.

See Introducing Sparx Science to your students for more information.