Set revision homework as a link to a specification matched activity rather than as a task you will later have to read. Questions are checked as the student answers them and the feedback goes straight back, which is the only moment it changes anything. Pick something narrow enough to finish in one sitting, twenty minutes rather than an hour, because homework that gets abandoned teaches nothing. What you will not get from us is a class completion report: a shared link is followed anonymously and nothing records who opened it. If chasing non-completion is the point of the task, this is the wrong tool and you should know that before you set it.
Revision homework has a specific failure mode. You set it, some of it comes back,
and now you are holding thirty pieces of paper that tell you what students knew
four days ago. The work of reading them lands on you, and the feedback reaches the
student long after the moment it would have helped.
Set a link, not a task
The alternative is not a shorter worksheet. It is homework that resolves itself:
the student answers, the answer is checked immediately, and they are told what to
do about it before they close the tab.
That changes who does the work. It also changes what you are able to set, because
you are no longer rationing tasks by how long they will take you to mark.
Choosing something worth setting
Three things make revision homework land:
One topic, not a revision session. "Rates of reaction" is a homework.
"Chemistry" is a wish.
Finishable in one sitting. Every activity here shows how long it takes. If a
student cannot see the end of it, a good proportion will not start.
Questions, not reading. A student can spend twenty minutes with a page open
and retain nothing. Something has to be produced.
What this does not do
It does not tell you who did it.
Following a shared link is anonymous, and nothing on our side records who opened
it or how far they got. That is a decision about children's data rather than an
omission, and it has a real cost: if the purpose of the task is to identify who is
avoiding work, this will not help you.
What you can do instead is ask. Thirty seconds of recall at the start of the next
lesson tells you what a completion column never would, because a tick only proves
a page was opened.
Where the marking went
Nowhere, in the sense that nobody does it. Answers are checked against a stored
answer key on the server as the student works. There is no batch to process and
nothing arrives in your inbox.
Pick something from the list below, or build a sprint for a
subject and a time budget and hand out one link. If you would rather browse by
specification first, everything is on the revision pages, with the
official past papers alongside for when you want the real thing.
You send one link. Put a collection together, or let the sprint builder assemble one for a subject and a time budget, and share the short link or the QR code. Nothing needs installing and nobody needs a class code.
Will I get a list of who completed it?
No. Following a shared link records nothing about who followed it, so there is no completion report to open. That is a deliberate decision about children's data, not a feature we forgot, and if your task depends on chasing non-completion this is the wrong tool for it.
How do I know it was any use then?
Ask in the lesson. A short recall question on the same material tells you more than a completion tick would, because a tick only proves a page was opened.
How long should revision homework be?
Short enough to finish in one sitting. Every module shows its expected duration, most sit between seven and twenty five minutes, and a task a student abandons halfway teaches nothing at all.
Do students need an account?
To look, no. To work through a whole activity and keep their progress, yes, and it is free. They can answer the sample question on this page without one.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The activities are built for tapping rather than dragging, which is the device most homework actually gets done on.
Put one in front of a class
Tell us the subject and how long you have. You get a link to hand out, and it marks itself.
15-minute GCSE revision activities for teachersPractical, specification-matched revision you can run in a spare fifteen minutes: a starter, a tutor slot, the end of a lesson, a cover period. Every activity is marked as the student works, so none of it comes back to you.
How DoRevision uses evidence and cites sourcesThe rules DoRevision follows when a teacher page makes a claim: what gets a citation, how we label our own data, and the claims we will not make at all. Written so you can check our working rather than take our word for it.