Help for class teachers and TAs

Registers, class views, points, marks, homework, seating, behaviour in the classroom and reports.

Take the register for your class: Use the register to record who is present, absent or late for a session. You mark each pupil, then save the register, and the marks go straight to each pupil’s attendance record. You can take the…
Record a late arrival or change an attendance code: When a pupil arrives late, or you need to give an absence a different attendance code, you do it in the register for that session. Each pupil has a details panel where you set the minutes late,…
See which pupils in your class need support first: The Pupils page lists everyone in a class with their attendance, risk level and flags such as SEND or Pupil Premium. Sort or filter it by risk to see who to look at first, then open a pupil’s…
Get a one-page brief for a class: Class Overview puts the picture of a whole class on one page: its support needs, recorded risk flags, behaviour over the last 30 days and classroom routines. It can also give you a Cohort Strategy…
Set up class routines, events and helpers: In Class Overview you can set up the everyday details of a class. Routines are step-by-step classroom sequences, such as a calm start to a lesson, with timings, cues and noise levels for staff and…
Award points to a pupil, group or class: The Points page for a class shows every pupil as a tile with their positive points total. From there you can recognise one pupil, a few pupils, a group or the whole class in a couple of clicks,…
Undo a points award: If you award positive points to the wrong pupil, or choose the wrong category, you can undo the award straight away from the class Points page. The undo removes the whole award, so if you awarded…
Check medical needs and allergies for your class: Before a lesson, a trip or a cover lesson, check which pupils in your class have a recorded medical condition, allergy or care note. The Medical Needs page for a class lists those pupils with…
Enter assessment marks for your class: Use Non-Statutory Assessments to record your school’s own assessment results for a class, such as a judgement or score in each subject this term. You choose the class and term, work through the…
Set up and fill in your markbook: The Digital Markbook is a gradebook for your class. Each row is a pupil and each column is an assessment, such as a test, a quiz or a practical. Columns can be grouped into folders, and each…
Enter marks quickly with rapid entry: When you have a mark to record for every pupil in a class, use Entry mode in the Digital Markbook. You type each mark straight into the grid and move on with the keyboard, without opening a window…
Set homework for a class: Use the Homework Planner to set homework for a teaching class. You write the task, add any resources and a deadline, and assign it. Once it’s assigned, it’s visible to the pupils in the class, and…
Review homework submissions: When pupils return homework, the Homework Planner shows it as work to review. You open the task, go through the pupils who have returned it, and record a mark and feedback for each one.
Create a seating plan for your class: The Seating Layout page lets you plan where each pupil sits. You place the class on a room plan, move seats around until the layout works, and save it so it’s there next lesson. While you plan,…
Open and share a class whiteboard: The whiteboard is a board for your lesson: write, draw and annotate on a blank canvas or on your own slides. You can prepare it privately, then share it to pupils’ devices with a join code when…
Record an ABC behaviour observation: An ABC observation records a behaviour together with what happened just before it (the antecedent) and just after it (the consequence). One observation on its own tells you little, but a run of…
Complete a QABF for a pupil: The QABF (Questions About Behavioural Function) is a 25-item questionnaire about one specific behaviour. It helps you think about why the behaviour keeps happening: what it might get the pupil, or…
Score a lesson on a report card: A report card gives a pupil up to five targets for each lesson, such as arriving on time with the right equipment. When a pupil on report has a lesson with you, you score each target at the end of…
Set a detention: You set a detention from the Detentions page. One detention can include up to 50 pupils, so you can add everyone who’s due at the same session in one go. You choose the type of detention, when it…
Take the detention register: When you’re running a detention, record whether each pupil turned up. The register lists every pupil set that detention, so you can mark them in a few taps, on a computer, tablet or phone. Their…
Call for behaviour on-call support: When you need a colleague to come and help with a pupil’s behaviour, for example during a lesson, you can call for on-call support from Student Radar. Your request goes to the staff on your…
Record an intervention session: After you run an intervention session, record it in the Intervention Planner: whether it went ahead, which pupils came and anything you noticed about their progress. Each part is recorded…
Start a wellbeing episode: When a pupil is upset, anxious or overwhelmed and you step in to help, record it as a wellbeing episode. It’s a short record of what you noticed, the support you gave and what happened next, so…
Record Early Learning Goal judgements: Use the EYFS Checklist to record where each Nursery and Reception child is against the 17 Early Learning Goals. Each row is a child and each column is a goal, grouped by area of learning. You…
Add evidence to an EYFS observation: Back up an Early Learning Goal judgement with what you saw: a note, a photo or a document. You add evidence from the EYFS checklist, and it appears in the child’s portfolio alongside their judgements.
Record phonics check and MTC results: Use Statutory Assessments to record your class’s phonics screening check marks and multiplication tables check (MTC) scores. You see a whole year group in one list, type each pupil’s mark, and…
Enter standardised test scores: Record your pupils’ scores from standardised tests such as NFER, GL Progress Tests and CAT4. You type each pupil’s standardised score, or their raw mark if your school has added the publisher’s…
Record a Small Steps assessment: Use Small Steps Assessment to record what a pupil with SEND can do, one small teaching question at a time. You choose the pupil and a curriculum pack, then record a judgement against each question…
Write and approve pupil reports: Use Report Writer to write each pupil’s termly report. Student Radar can write a first draft from the pupil’s recorded assessment results and targets. You then check it, edit it, save it and…
Build your comment bank: The Comment bank in Report Writer holds phrases you use again and again in pupil reports. Add a phrase once, then add it to any report with one click. The comment bank is shared across your…
Find and open a report: The Reports Catalogue lists Student Radar’s assessment reports, grouped by the question they answer: where pupils are now, how they’ve progressed, how groups compare and so on. Each report shows…
Create a club and add pupils: Set up an after-school club, lunchtime activity or other enrichment group in Student Radar, then add the pupils who are taking part. Each club has a capacity, so once it’s full, new pupils go on a…
Take a club register: Record who came to each club session. The register gives you an accurate record of who was at the club and when, which matters for safeguarding and for funded or targeted activities.