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Groups

Put students into groups, filter your student list by them, and read the group summary — including why a small group deliberately shows no figures.

The short version Groups sits along the top of your student list. A group is a label you make up — a lesson slot, a year group, a Saturday club. Put students in it, and the chips above your student list will filter down to just that group. Once a group has four or more students, its own page also shows the topics that group finds hardest. It is your own working label: no parent and no child ever sees it.

Making a group

Open Groups from the top of your student list, then + New group. There is one field — the name — and a Create button. Up to 80 characters.

Name it after the thing you actually organise your week by. The screen suggests "Tuesday 4pm group" or "Year 6 Saturday club", and those are genuinely the useful kind: a name you would say out loud is a name you will still recognise in March.

Groups are listed with the number of students in each. Click any row to open it.

Nobody outside your console sees this A group name is never shown to a parent, never appears in the parent portal or the weekly email, and never reaches a child's device. It exists only where you work. That matters because a name that is useful to you — a set, a slot, a level — is not something a ten-year-old should ever be sorted by in front of them.

Adding students to a group

Two ways in, and they do exactly the same thing:

From the group

Open the group and use the Members panel. Pick a name from Add a student… and press Add. Anyone already in the group is left out of that list, so you cannot add someone twice.
From the student

Open a student's own page and find the Groups panel. It shows which of your groups they are in as chips, and Add to a group… puts them in another. Handy when you have just added a new student and want them in the right slot straight away. Once they are in every group you have, the picker has nothing left to offer and hides itself.

A student can be in as many groups as you like — a lesson slot and a year group at the same time is normal. To take somebody out, press Remove beside their name in the group, or the ✕ on the group's chip on the student's own page.

Removing somebody from a group removes nothing else Their work, their history, their reports, their device and their parent's access are all untouched. You are only taking off a label. The same is true of the group itself — a group holds no data of its own beyond its name and its list of members.

Filtering your student list by group

As soon as you have one group, a row of chips appears above your student list: Everyone first, then one chip per group with the number of students in brackets. Tap a chip and the list below shows only that group; tap Everyone to come back.

That is all the filter does — it changes which students you are looking at. Nothing about a student changes when you filter, and each student's figures are their own either way.

Only groups you are currently using appear as chips. An archived group drops out of the row (see the last section), so a year that has moved on stops cluttering the screen you use every day.

Reading the group summary

A group's own page can show How this group is doing: up to five topics, hardest first, each with the subject, how many answers the whole group has given in that topic, and a percentage bar.

Only topics somebody in the group has practised in the last 60 days are considered, so a topic they worked on and fixed months ago does not stay at the top of the list forever. This is the same rule What to teach next uses for your whole roster, so the two panels will never disagree about which topics are still in play.

What you see	What it means
"needs a little focus"	The group is under 60% on that topic. It is the same wording the child's own screens use, and it is chosen deliberately — nothing in this product calls a child, or a group of them, weak.
"strong"	80% or better across the group.
No label, just a bar	Somewhere in between. Nothing to flag either way.
"…answered across the group"	How much the figure is built on. A topic only appears here at all once the group has answered it 12 times between them.

This is a group-wide view and only a group-wide view. There is no per-child breakdown on this screen and no ranking of one of your students against another — for that, open the child's own page, where the figures belong to them alone.

It is also a shortlist, not a full picture: five topics, the ones the group is finding hardest. A topic missing from it is not a topic with no data; it is simply not one of the five under most pressure.

The quiet-fortnight banner If nobody in the group has practised for a fortnight, a banner appears at the top of the group's page: "Nobody in this group has practised in a couple of weeks — might be worth a quick check-in." It is a prompt to you, not a mark against anybody, and it is never shown to a child or a parent. A brand-new group where nobody has started yet shows no banner at all — there is nothing to have gone quiet.

Why a small group shows no figures

A group with fewer than four students shows no topic summary and no quiet-fortnight banner. Not an empty panel, not a "not enough data" placeholder — the panel simply is not there. This is the single thing most likely to look like a fault, so it is worth being clear: it is working exactly as intended.

Two gates are in play:

Gate	Effect
Four students in the group	Below that, no summary and no banner at all.
12 answers in a topic, across the group	A topic with fewer stays off the list, even in a large group.

The reason is the same one behind the child's own screens withholding a topic bar built on three answers. A percentage worked out from a handful of answers is not evidence of anything — it moves wildly on a single lucky or unlucky question — and showing it anyway would send you to spend a lesson fixing a problem that may not exist. It would also, in a group of two, come very close to being a statement about one particular child dressed up as a group figure.

So the screen says nothing rather than something shaky. If you want a figure for a group of two, the honest place to look is each child's own page.

If the count says four but there is still no summary The number beside a group counts everyone you have ever added to it. The summary counts students who are still active. If one of the four has been archived, the group is back down to three as far as the summary is concerned. Add another student, or check who is actually listed under Members — only active students appear there.

Archiving a group, and bringing it back

When a group has run its course, open it and press Archive group. It:

stays in your Groups list, marked (archived), sorted below the ones you are using;
disappears from the filter chips above your student list;
disappears from the Groups panel on each student's page;
keeps its members, so nothing has to be rebuilt.

Open it again and the same button now reads Reactivate group. Press it and the group and its chip come straight back, with everybody still in it.

There is no delete A group can be archived but never destroyed, for the same reason a student record is never destroyed: something you might want back in September should not be one mis-click away from being gone. Archiving is the tidy-up.

Questions people ask

Can I rename a group?: Not from the screen today. Create the group under the new name, add the same students, and archive the old one — members are added in a couple of clicks each, so it is quicker than it sounds.
Can a student be in two groups at once?: Yes, as many as you find useful. Nothing is exclusive.
Does a parent see which group their child is in?: No. Group names appear nowhere outside your console — not in the parent portal, not in the weekly email, not on a printed report, and not on the child's own device.
Does putting a child in a group change what they practise?: No. Groups do not affect what any child is served, what their app shows, or how their work is marked. They are a label for your own use and nothing more.
Can I send a group a set of questions, or a mock, all at once?: Not yet. Today a group organises your view of your students; it is not a way of assigning work.
Why is a topic missing from the summary when I know they have done it?: Either the group has answered it fewer than 12 times between them, or it is not one of the five the group is finding hardest. The summary is a shortlist of where attention would go furthest, not a full topic list.
Can my assistant see and edit groups?: Anyone in your workspace who can see all of your students — you as owner, and anybody you have invited as a tutor — can create groups and change who is in them. A parent account cannot see them at all.

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