THE COURSE COMPANION
That raises attainment
by redefining revision as a continual practice throughout the course and not just at the end.
BETT AWARDS 2022 FINALIST
Best Secondary Digital Learning Product
What is Smart Revise?
Smart Revise is an online application supporting students and teachers of GCSE and A Level Computer Science (Business coming September 2022). Built to work in your web browser on any device with no software or app installation required.
Revision is traditionally the practice of revisiting previously taught material at the end of a course. However, this is only partially effective in preparing for exams. To truly raise attainment, Smart Revise redefines revision as a continual practice of answering questions throughout the course, starting after the very first topic has been taught.
With Smart Revise students can access hundreds of multiple choice, short- and extended-answer questions independently, or they can join a class and enable the teacher to direct their learning by expanding content throughout the course. Smart Revise content is carefully curated by experienced teachers and past examiners to ensure an exact match with each course specification.
Remember key facts
Students forget what they have been taught over time. Smart Revise solves this problem by silently adapting and presenting each student with their own unique, never-ending playlist of multiple-choice questions. The teacher or student can expand the content as the course progresses, interleaving questions from different topics automatically. Mastery algorithms and tracking reports elevate low-stakes quizzing to beat the forgetting curve . Quiz is ideal for use at the start of each lesson or for regular homework with no marking!
Learn definitions
Our next generation flashcards require students to record their confidence with each term before moving on to the next card. This facilitates deck filtering to concentrate on different cards on each day as well as informing the teacher where there are gaps in knowledge. An optional interactive mode turns what could be a passive revision technique into an active one by challenging the student to write the definition of a term before flipping the card to see the answer.
Practice exam-style questions
Hundreds of more demanding questions with command word help to assist students in how to approach the question, and guided marking to show them how to apply the mark scheme to their answer. The JCQ and examination board guidelines on the type and style of questions has been carefully considered. For teachers, analyse which points in a mark scheme students are remembering, and perhaps more importantly, the points they don't.
Set assignments, topic tests and full mock exams
Smart Revise can be used by students independently of a teacher, but if they join a class their teachers can set, mark, record and analyse their performance with hundreds of multiple choice, short answer and longer answer questions. An online mark book keeps track of all tasks set. Great for homework and end of topic tests.
“Use Smart Revise. No question. Everything else is an imitation.”
Toby Adams, Teacher
HELPING STUDENTS ACHIEVE HIGHER GRADES
Find out more about using Smart Revise in the classroom
Used by 64,386 students and teachers
Quiz is great for students to use while they wait for other students to arrive at the lesson.
Tasks is great for setting, monitoring, marking and recording tasks for students to complete at home.
Terms is great for getting an overview of what students already know in advance of a sequence of lessons, or to review at the end.
Tasks is great for assessing what students have learned at the end of a topic.
Tasks can be configured to replicate mock exams to be completed online.
With a personal revision report, analytics and a task markbook to record outcomes.
Use analytic reports and task outcomes for formative and summative assessment.
Short video clips show students how to answer questions.
Question generation is automatic so there is very little for a teacher to plan, yet the work can be fully differentiated.
Students love awards & class leader boards
Over 40 awards to attain encouraging students to use all the features of Smart Revise regularly. Students in a class can also compare how they are getting on in relation to their peers. The number of students shown on the class leader board is configurable by the teacher to encourage only healthy rivalry amongst peers.
BUILT ON EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
The pedagogy of Smart Revise
Students remember what they have been taught more effectively with Smart Revise.
Learning something once is not enough.
Supporting both formative and summative assessment with analytic reports.
Ensuring all students are making good progress.
Smart Revise learns and adapts to each student giving them a personalised learning experience and revision report.
Smart Revise has many options for supporting students with additional needs.
Every feature of Smart Revise has foundations in research, and decades of classroom experience.
How schools are making the most of Smart Revise to give their students the edge.
“It's made a huge difference for my students since we started using it.”
Catherine Lewis, Teacher
Courses supported
Computer Science
OCR
GCSE J277
AQA
GCSE 8525
Edexcel
GCSE 1CP2
OCR
A Level
H046 & H446
AQA
A Level
7516 & 7517
Business
Edexcel
GCSE 1BS0
Available from September 2022
Road map & Release log
Smart Revise has a new feature introduced every four to six weeks. Find out what we are currently working on.