Setting homework

Once students have sat the initial Sparx Reading Test and completed their onboarding, you'll need to start setting their reading homework. 

You can do this by following the steps below: 

1. Go to the Hand-in page 
2. Choose your class
3. Click Create Homework 
4. Choose whether you want to copy an existing homework plan (see How do I copy a homework plan for more guidance)
5. Choose the desired number of weeks
6. Choose the start date
7. Choose the day and time you would like homework to be set and due
8. Choose the SRP target (see What is SRP?)
9. Check through the preview and untick any weeks where you don't want homework going out 
10. Check if you would like to apply the homework plan you are creating to multiple classes
11. Click Save
    

This short video shows how to set homework for each class. 

Creating a homework plan for multiple classes

You can also choose to assign a homework plan to multiple classes. Please note, however, that classes with pre-existing homework for this period won’t be selectable to prevent conflicts.

Tips for effective homework scheduling 

We'd encourage you to think about the following: 

• Ensure consistent hand-out and hand-in days across the school (or at least each year group). This helps support clear and consistent messaging about expectations. 
• You might want to consider Thursday as the hand-in day as this has shown to have better completion rates. 
• You might want to avoid a Friday hand-in, as we've seen that schools that do have statistically lower completion rates.
• A different hand-in/-out day to Sparx Maths to avoid students being overwhelmed by having two core homeworks due on the same day. 
• A day between when homework is due and the new homework being handed out. This means you have one day to follow up with any students who haven't completed the previous homework (e.g. if they hand it in on Wednesday morning, they can catch up after school that day, then the next homework is set on Thursday morning).
• A weekend between hand-out and hand-in days: this gives students more time to complete their work. for all classes using Sparx Reader.