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Work set, work submitted, and who has not

Homework management records what was set, to which section, by when, and who has submitted. The output a school actually uses is the negative one: the list of students who have not submitted across subjects, which is a pattern no single subject teacher can see on their own.

This tracks submission, not quality. Whether the work was any good is a teacher’s judgement and stays one.

Written by Checked by S. NandhiniLast reviewed

Every subject teacher knows who did not hand in their homework this week. Nobody knows which student has not handed in anything, in any subject, for three weeks — and that student is the one the school needed to notice.

Set to
A section, a group or one student
Visible to parents
Due list, not a stream of alerts
Cross-subject view
Non-submission across all subjects
Quiet hours
Nothing pushed 21:00–07:00
01

The cross-subject pattern

A student missing one subject’s homework is ordinary. The same student missing four subjects over a fortnight is a signal — and it is invisible under any arrangement where each teacher keeps their own list, which is how almost every school runs.

Surfacing it to the class teacher rather than to four subject teachers separately puts it in front of the one person whose job includes noticing.

02

What parents see, and what they should not

A parent gets a due list — what is set, by when — not a notification each time a teacher posts. Four subject teachers each setting work on a Monday should produce one list, not four pushes, and this is the single most common reason parent apps get muted.

Non-submission is deliberately not pushed to parents in real time. It goes to the class teacher, who decides whether it is a conversation with the student or with the family. Automating that decision produces a great deal of noise and occasionally real harm.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Can students submit work through the app?

They can submit a file or a photograph where the school enables it. Many schools track submission on paper and record it here instead, which works identically for the cross-subject view.

Are parents notified when work is not submitted?

Not automatically. Non-submission goes to the class teacher, who decides. Automatic escalation to parents generates noise and occasionally does harm.

Can homework be set for one student?

Yes — a section, a group within it, or an individual, which is how remedial or extension work is usually set.

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Checked by the Implementations desk on 6 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

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