About the Site

The Site

This site provides a subscription based online homework service to support the teaching of ICT in secondary schools.

The materials on the site are targeted at KS3 students. The exercises are designed to support the revised National Curriculum. All the exercises have been classroom tested.

The exercises can be printed out to support classroom preparation. They also work well as plenary activities. Students can discuss the material as a class prior to completing the exercises online for homework.

Upon completion of an online activity, a student can submit the work for marking. Marked work is returned to the student immediately and the results are also written to our database. This enables teachers to generate reports on how their students have got on.

The Users

The site is set up for three distinct types of users:  students, their teachers and school database administrators (DBAs).

Students and teachers have access to all of the exercises on the site. Teachers additionally have access to reporting and administrative functions, such as the setting of homework tasks and the resetting of student passwords.

Students are also able to run their own reports. They are able to see what homework has been set for them. They can see their results and can also repeat the exercises to improve their marks. This can be very motivating for students.

School DBAs are responsible for maintaining the data for their school on our database server. Typically, this may mean amending a student’s teaching group when a student moves to a different teaching set. School DBAs are also able to add new student records. This covers the scenario, for example, where a new student joins a school part way through the academic year.