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Using homework insights

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The Insights page provides valuable data about how your students are performing in their homework, helping you identify areas where they may need additional support or where they're excelling. This information can be used to inform your teaching and provide targeted intervention.

What questions are included in the Follow-up Five?

Help the class

These are questions that many students in the class found difficult. By expanding each row you can see the question, the number of students who worked on this question as part of their homework, and the number of students who found it difficult.

  • Criteria: At least 50% of students who saw the specific question struggled (did not answer correctly the first time)

    • If over 50% of students are deemed to have struggled on an entire Objective, then this will appear as "struggled with this type of objective".

Challenge the class

These are more challenging questions, selected from topics that the class performed well at.

  • Criteria: At least 50% of students in the class excelled at this objective

Using Insights

In lessons

To use the Follow-up Five questions as a lesson starter, you can display all five questions on your screen using Presentation View. Within this view, you can:

  • View answers to each question

  • Zoom in on particular questions

  • Change to a different question set for further practice

Times tables insights

If you have times tables enabled for your class, you can:

  • View which 100 club each student belongs to

  • See target tables for individual students to practise

  • Monitor XP earned through times tables practice

  • Reset assessment levels if needed (e.g. after prolonged absence)

More information about students' times tables progress can also be found in the Times tables report.

FAQs

When do Insights become available?

Insights update throughout the week as students complete their homework. The page may remain empty if your class has completed a low amount of homework that week.

What questions are shown in Insights?

Questions can come from both the weekly topics and consolidation topics, depending on how students have performed.

What is the new lesson quiz feature?

Lesson quiz will contain the same 5 questions from homework for all students in the class, based on the questions that were in the homework for that class.

These questions are picked based on correct questions, as we expect students who complete their homework to be able to complete the quiz.

You will have 3 methods for delivering the quiz:

  • Printed sheet

  • Present on the screen

  • Allow students to complete digitally

How you choose to get students to answer questions and mark them with the first two options is up to you. During testing, some schools collected in the papers and marked these themselves, some had students peer marking, and call out their scores.

For info, this isn't the same as Insights for example, where it shows 5 questions the class struggled with in the homework.

They will be different questions across both features.

I hope that helps for now, more information will be shared in due course and you can sign up to this feature using the link or QR code in our email but here it for ease as well: Sparx Maths Lesson Quiz

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