Academic management in SchoolDeck is four connected objects: the syllabus a teacher plans against, the work set and submitted, the material shared with a section, and the assessment that measures it. Each is separate, and each writes to the same student record rather than to its own copy.
This page describes how they connect. Each object has its own page; nothing here is a substitute for those.
Almost every school ERP sells "academics" as one module, and inside it the four things a school actually does are collapsed into whichever one the vendor built first. The result is a homework list that cannot be assessed, or a lesson plan that has no relationship to what was taught.
The syllabus unit is what connects them. A lesson plan is written against a unit; homework is set against a unit; material is filed against a unit; an examination blueprint allocates marks to units. Because they share that spine, a school can ask a question nobody can usually answer: which units were taught, which were assessed, and where those two disagree.
It is not a content library. SchoolDeck does not supply lessons, question banks bought from a publisher, or video courses, and it will not — we are the record, not the syllabus. A school brings its own material and its own scheme of work, and the system tracks and delivers them.
The reason is not modesty. A content library ages, has to be maintained per board and per revision, and creates a commercial incentive to keep schools inside it. None of that serves a record of what actually happened in a classroom.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No. The school brings its own material and scheme of work. This is a written rule rather than a gap we intend to fill later.
Yes. Homework without a formal lesson plan, or assessment without shared material, are both common. The objects connect where both exist and stand alone where one does not.
Assessment does, because that is what the card reports. Homework completion and coverage are operational records that inform teaching, and most schools deliberately keep them off the card.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 6 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
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