Continual Professional Development

The journey to raising attainment and reducing workload

This is our recommended approach to using Smart Revise which has evolved from decades of our own classroom practice and academic research about the best long-term revision techniques.

1. Use Quiz at the start of every lesson for personalised retrieval practice

2. Use Analytics at the end of lessons to recap knowledge and address misconceptions

3. Use Goals to automatically set personalised homework

4. Use Tasks to set end of topic tests

5. Use Terms to conduct monthly or termly self-assessment reviews

6. Use Tasks for students to practice exam technique

7. Use Analytics to identify topics and students for intervention

8. Use Analytics to prepare for parent evenings

9. Use Tasks for peer assessment to give students an examiner's eye

10. Use Terms for simple baseline self-assessements

11. Use Tasks to simulate complete mock exams online

12. Use Terms to inform catch up planning

FAQs

SmartRevise
October 8, 2025
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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.

SmartRevise
February 1, 2025
9:00 am
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What does the data on a student flight path mean?

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

SmartRevise
January 20, 2025
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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.

SmartRevise
January 15, 2025
9:00 am
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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.

SmartRevise
January 10, 2025
9:00 am
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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.