At Sparx, we’re focused on one thing: Maximising learning, helping your students thrive and giving you the tools and visibility to support them.

We’ve been hearing something important from you: It’s getting harder to know if students are truly doing their homework properly.

Shortcuts have always existed. But with AI, it’s now easier for students to bypass the work, making it harder for you to judge what effort is really going on and, crucially, to know what impact this might be having on your students' learning.

We’ve developed the Lesson Quiz to help encourage the right habits, and give you the data to have those conversations that uphold the high standards we all want for our students and their learning.

The Lesson Quiz is available on the Hand-In Page for each homework, after the hand in deadline has passed. At the point you generate the quiz, we will use homework completion information to choose the questions. The higher the homework completion is, the better the quality of the quiz.

You can choose to run the quiz by printing it out onto a sheet, by presenting it on the board, or you can run it digitally by students logging into their Sparx accounts.

We take a subset of questions that students answered correctly in their homework, to use in the quiz. These will either be the same questions that were seen in homework, or will be key skills from the topics that students have demonstrated they can answer correctly in homework.

The 'Follow up five' section of the Insights page provides questions that some of the class have struggled with.

Lesson Quiz provides questions that students have completed successfully in their homework so you check that they fully understand these concepts.

We will consider all levels represented in the class when selecting the key questions to include in Lesson Quiz.

These will either be the same questions answered in homework or key skills from the topics that students have demonstrated they can answer correctly in homework.

Once a quiz is generated, a results table for your class will show, highlighting homework completion information, with an additional column available to enter marks for each student.

Note: When running the quiz digitally, marks will automatically populate for each student.

You can look back at a previous week to see the results of your class’s quiz scores. You will also see a 3 week snapshot of quiz scores in this view.

On a student’s profile, we will also show historic quiz results underneath the homework completion bar graph.

The results of the Lesson Quiz do not feed into the decisions we make around the contents of homework.

Once the homework due date and time has passed, Lesson Quiz will be available to generate for your class.

Lesson Quiz consists of 5 questions that students have had success with on their homework. We do not expect this to take up a large proportion of your lesson. It could be seen in length as similar to a typical starter/do-now activity.

Yes, on both the printable version, and the presentable version, answers are available to teachers for each question.

Lesson Quiz will be available after each homework deadline and you can access these, or revisit previous quizzes, at any time throughout the academic year.

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.

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

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

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

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

They 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.

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