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October 2025 update

Archived tasks no longer appear in a student's task list

It's a fact, some students don't complete their Smart Revise tasks! While you might not have enforced a deadline, time has now passed, and you don't expect the student to complete the work. For example, at the beginning of year 11 you may want to wipe the slate clean of anything outstanding from year 10. Archiving tasks now provides that facility because archived tasks will no longer show on the student's task list.

If there are students that can have marks released, before you can archive a task you will be prompted whether this should be done first.

New visibility toggle for a student's name when marking or viewing a task answer

Teachers will often want to project and share an answer a student has given to a question for reflection with the class. This is useful for engaging with the students to address misconceptions, exam technique or to have discussions about how an answer can be improved. However, it can be a little embarrassing for the student who's work is being observed.

There is now a toggle on the teacher task marking screen to hide the student name.

Use the 'eye' icon to toggle student names in task marking.

Task analytics reports for students

Students now have the same reports as teachers for analysing the outcomes of a task. The only difference is that they can only see their own data. This includes:

  • Question analysis: see the top 10 least and most well answered questions in the task. Click the question to navigate to it.
  • Question matrix: see the marks for each question at a glance with colour coding to indicate stronger and weaker questions.
  • Topic matrix: see the strengths and weaknesses by topic for those tasks that span more than one topic.

Select and unselect all students in a class when assigning a task

A checkbox has been added to the page where you assign students to a task. Ticking this will select all students who have not already had the task assigned. Unticking this will unselect all the students who have not already had the task assigned. By unticking the box you can easily select just one or two students which is ideal for assigning intervention tasks.

Select all box on list of students.

Goals feature update

We are currently testing and refining our next big ticket feature, "Goals". This feature automatically sets weekly targets for students based on their data and the stage of the course. Solving the problem of students not knowing how much Quiz, Terms and Advance they should be doing. This will be available soon.

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Why does Smart Revise keep using the same questions?

Smart Revise values quality over quantity, mastery over coverage and memory over cramming.
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May 2025 update

Teachers can choose whether students have access to question filters and more.
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Huge quality of life update for both students and teachers

Students can now filter questions in Quiz and Advance and teachers can add and delete questions when setting a task.
Improvements to task marking

Improvements to task marking

Automatically release marks to students after AI marking plus an improved teacher marking interface too.
Flight path

What does the data on a student flight path mean?

Flight paths show progress over time, but how is this calculated?
Topic filters

What’s the difference between the topic filters?

Use the different topic filters at each stage of the course.
Recap the entire course to date with Quiz.

Why is Quiz is better than Tasks for recall activities?

With Tasks all students get the same questions, but with Quiz the questions are automatically personalised for each student.
Book cover: The Revision Revolution by Helen Howell and Ross Morrison McGill.

Why should every computer science lesson in years 10 to 13 start with Smart Revise Quiz?

Starting every lesson with a recall activity has a lasting impact over time.
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AQA A level content update

Another huge update for the AQA A level Computer Science course includes a bumper load of new, original Advance questions.
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Task management update

Managing Tasks is now much easier with a redesigned interface to increase data visibility.
Case studies

New case studies for AQA & OCR Business

11 new case studies have been added to the OCR GCSE (J204) and AQA GCSE (8132) Business courses.
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New feature: student flight path

With the introduction of flight paths, students and teachers can now see progress over time.

Improved Edexcel 1CP2 Computer Science course

For September 2024, every Quiz question and Term definition has been reviewed and replaced or reworded to ensure a tighter match to the course specification.
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Shortlisted in the Teach Secondary Awards 2024

We are proud to announce that Smart Revise has been shortlisted for the third year in a row for a teaching award.
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Copy a task between year groups

Tasks can now be copied across year groups within the same course family.
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June 2024 update

A new Terms analytics report and other changes.
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AQA A/AS level Computer Science update

The new 2026 AQA (7517) course has been broken down from 13 topics into 51 sub-topics, but AS level has been discontinued.
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Topic targeting

Students can now focus on one topic at a time more easily using links in their revision report.
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Data from Tasks is now included in Quiz, Terms & Advance

Tasks that have marks released to students will now affect Quiz, Terms, Advance and Analytics too.

Huge improvement to AI marking

The large language model has been upgraded to improve the range and accuracy of AI marking.

Content update for GCSE Computer Science courses

New programming questions have been added matching the format of real exams.

2023 release notes

All the features released in 2023.

2022 release notes

All the features released in 2022.

2021 release notes

All the features released in 2021.