How ClassKite Saves Teachers' Time
Ask a teacher where their time goes and you'll hear the same answers: preparing materials, photocopying and marking. ClassKite saves time by putting the materials you already use to more work, instead of asking you to build new ones. Here is where the time comes back.
1. Start from your PDFs instead of rebuilding
You don't need to recreate your worksheets in a new format. Upload the PDF you already teach from and add questions to go with it in the same section. Students see your original pages, unchanged. The upload takes minutes; the questions take as long as you spend writing them.
2. Let practice mark itself
Objective questions (multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching and jumbled sentence) are marked the instant a student answers. That covers the routine marking that fills your evenings, and leaves your attention for extended written work, where a teacher's judgement matters.
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3. See the class in real time
During a live session, the Live Student Grid shows who has finished, who is stuck and who has asked for help while the lesson is still running. Instead of finding a shared mistake while marking that night, you catch it in the lesson and reteach it once, for everyone. (The Live Student Grid, Reports and the Gradebook are on Teacher Plus and the School plan.)
4. Build once, reuse it every year
A PDF and its questions can be reused with your other classes and next year: Copy class and carrying a class into the new year bring them along. There is nothing to photocopy again and nothing to prepare twice.
Before and after
Before: prep the worksheet, photocopy 30 of them, teach, collect, mark in the evening, find the common mistake too late.
After: upload once, teach from the same pages live, see scores and progress as students answer, and leave without a pile of marking.
A common mistake to avoid
Teachers often try to digitise everything at once. Start with one worksheet you teach every term instead. Each repeat use pays back part of the setup, and you learn the workflow on material you know well.
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Set work without the photocopier
Time is saved outside the lesson too. Any practice you have built can be unlocked for students to do on their own (at home, in a cover lesson, or to catch up after an absence) and it marks itself the same way. There is nothing to collect and nothing to carry home.
Because it is the same practice, the results go into the same Reports and the same Gradebook as your classwork, so homework and classwork sit in one view.
Where it will not save you time
Some work stays with you, and it helps to know which before you start.
- The first setup is real work. Uploading a PDF and adding questions to it takes a sitting. It pays back from the second use, which is why the advice here is to start with material you teach every year.
- Extended writing still needs you. Objective questions mark themselves. ClassKite has no essay or free-text questions, so an essay, a method or a piece of reasoning is still yours to mark, and that judgement is the part of marking that teaches.
- It does not plan your lesson. ClassKite has no lesson-plan generator. It takes the materials you have chosen and makes them go further; deciding what to teach stays with you.
What the first month usually looks like
- Week one: one worksheet, one class, taught live from the board. Nothing else changes.
- Week two: add three or four questions to go with that PDF and run them as a five-minute check at the end.
- Week three: unlock the same practice for anyone who was away, and look at the report rather than the books.
- Week four: do it again with the next topic. By now the setup takes about 15 minutes instead of an evening.
Moving a whole year's material in one go is where most attempts stall. One recurring worksheet at a time is easier to keep up.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to set up the first worksheet?
Plan on a sitting for the first one. Uploading the PDF is quick, but writing good questions takes as long as it always has. The second and third are much faster, and a worksheet you teach every year only needs doing once.
Do I have to move everything across?
No, and it is better not to. One worksheet you teach every term is enough to start; add the next once the first is running.
Does it mark written answers?
No. Every question type is objective (multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching and jumbled sentence) and marks itself on submit. There are no essay or free-text questions, so extended writing stays with you.
What do students need?
A browser and your join code. Students always join free, with no per-student licence to buy or manage.
Written by the ClassKite team and reviewed by a practising teacher.
Teacher Basic is free and students always join free with a join code, so you can try the workflow above with a real class before you spend anything (the Live Student Grid and Reports need Teacher Plus or the School plan). See what each plan includes.