Set revision homework as a link to a specification-matched activity, rather than as something you'll have to read later. Questions are checked as the student answers them and the feedback goes straight back, which is when it's most likely to change anything. Pick something narrow enough to finish in one sitting, twenty minutes rather than an hour, because a task students abandon halfway doesn't help them. What you won't 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 isn't the right tool, and it's better to know that before you set it.
Revision homework usually goes the same way. You set it, some of it comes back, and you end up with thirty pieces of paper telling you what students knew four days ago. Reading them is your evening, and the feedback reaches the student long after it would have been useful.
Set a link, not a task
There's another way to do it. The student answers, the answer is checked immediately, and they're told what to do about it before they close the tab.
That moves the work off your desk. It also changes what you can set, because you're no longer limiting tasks by how long they'll take you to mark.
Choosing something worth setting
One topic, not a revision session. "Rates of reaction" is a homework. "Chemistry" is too big to be one.
Finishable in one sitting. Every activity here shows how long it takes. If a student can't see the end of it, a fair number won't start.
Questions rather than reading. A student can spend twenty minutes with a page open and take nothing from it. They need to be producing something.
What this does not do
It doesn't 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's a decision about children's data rather than something we left out, and it has a real cost. If the point of the task is to work out who is avoiding work, this won't help you.
What you can do instead is ask. Thirty seconds of recall at the start of the next lesson tells you more than a completion column would.
If you feel strongly that tracking student progress would be more beneficial if you're students are using this site, do let us know.
Where the marking went
Nobody does it. Answers are checked against a stored answer key on the server as the student works, so there's no batch to get through and nothing arrives in your inbox.
For the tasks themselves at fifteen and thirty minutes, plus a routine and a record sheet, see the revision homework toolkit.
Pick something from the list below, or build a sprint for a subject and a time budget and hand out one link. If you'd rather browse by specification first, everything is on the revision pages, with the official past papers alongside for when you want real exam questions.
Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.
Mock preparation: Asks students to build an answer, not just recognise one.
Cover lesson: Teaches and tests in one go, so a non-specialist can run it.
Try one question
A car is travelling along a flat, straight motorway at a steady seventy. A student says that since it is not speeding up or slowing down, there must be no forces acting on it. What is wrong with that?
The answer was:
That is one step of 16. A free teacher account opens the rest.
You send one link. Put a collection together, or let the sprint builder assemble one for a subject and a time budget, then 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's no completion report to open. That's a deliberate decision about children's data rather than a feature we forgot. If your task depends on chasing non-completion, this isn't the right 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, since a tick only shows that a page was opened.
How long should revision homework be?
Short enough to finish in one sitting. Every module shows how long it takes and most sit between seven and twenty five minutes. A task a student gives up on halfway through doesn't do much for them.
Do students need an account?
Not to look at it. They need a free account to work through a whole activity and keep their progress. 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, and a phone is where a lot of homework actually gets done.
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 teachersShort, specification-matched revision activities for those spare fifteen minutes: a starter, tutor time, the end of a lesson or a cover period. Students get their answers checked as they work, so there is nothing for you to mark afterwards.
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 won't make at all. Written so you can check our working.
The GCSE revision homework toolkitWhat to actually set as revision homework at fifteen and thirty minutes, a weekly routine that lasts a full term, options for a class with a wide range in it, what to tell parents, and a printable sheet students keep themselves.