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Week of 22-Sep-2026 – 28-Sep-2026

Checking homework, rebuilt

Checking a class's homework used to mean a page that never said which homework you were looking at. It now opens with the homework itself — title, class, subject, date and instructions — a summary of who has submitted and who has not, filters for Needs review, and each student's AI grade laid out properly instead of one block of text. On the phones, the Student & Parent app now opens in about a second.

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A teacher checking homework has one question that the screen should never make them hunt for: which homework is this, and who has not handed it in? The checking page has been rebuilt around exactly that — the homework at the top, the class summarised, and the students who still need looking at one filter away. On the phones, the parent's app had its start-up taken apart: it now opens on Home in about a second, without the Login screen flashing past.

The homework checking page, rebuilt

It now tells you which homework you are checking. Opened from Homework → View Homework → ⋮ → View Details, the page starts with the homework's title, class and section, subject, date and instructions — with a Homework list link back and a button to open the homework's own files.
The whole class, summarised at the top. How many students have submitted out of the class, how many are still pending — with Remind all beside the number — how many have an AI grade, and the class's average AI score.
Filter, search and sort. Show everyone, only those who submitted, only those still pending, or Needs review — work that has come in but has no grade or comment yet. Search by name, and sort by class order, by name, or by highest or lowest score.
An AI grade you can actually read. Open a student and the score, comments, strengths, areas for improvement and feedback are laid out separately instead of running together in one block. Your own comments box sits underneath with a Save comments button, and the page tells you whether they are saved.
Re-grading updates itself. Ask for a re-grade and the student shows "Grading with AI…", with the new score appearing on its own, usually within a minute. If it takes longer the page says so, and Refresh picks it up later.
Scores you can scan, on any screen. Green for 8 to 10, amber for 5 to 7 and red below 5 — always with the number shown, never colour alone. On a phone each student becomes a card instead of a wide table.

The parent's app now opens in about a second

A start screen that gets out of the way. A new white EDII start screen closes as soon as your Home is ready — about a second — in place of the old purple screen that stayed up on its own schedule.
No more Login screen flashing past. Parents who are already signed in no longer see the Login screen appear for a moment while the app works out who they are.
Home and the bottom tabs are quicker — and keep their place. They open faster, keep showing what they already had while refreshing in the background, and no longer mix up details when you switch between children.
The payment total is the total. The payment confirmation now shows the exact amount you will pay, including any convenience fee — and the fee and receipt pages no longer get stuck loading.
Uploads that finish, and screens that remember. Homework and document uploads no longer hang, with a clear message if camera or photo access has been turned off. Attendance, calendar, homework status and postcards always show the month, child and category you actually selected.
Sign-out, circulars and security. Signing out now fully signs you out on that phone even on a weak connection, emailing a circular opens your email app with the circular ready to send, and the libraries the app is built on have been updated for security.

Two screens that were slower than the work they were for.

Checking homework and opening an app are both things done many times a day, where a few wasted seconds and one unanswered question — which homework is this?, is it still loading? — add up to real irritation. Both were rebuilt around that, rather than around new features. More next week.