How is your school sending homework home during covid?

[SpaceRaiders]

Our school has started using multiple online platforms for homework. One for spellings, one for additional reading and two for maths. Each platform has three login credentials per child. The spellings platform relies on a teacher, who sends a link, which never seems to work and or it expires after 6 months, so you have to keep asking for a new link.

The whole process is so unbelievably difficult that even my computer savvy 9 yrs old is struggling to do it without support. This has all been done to minimise physical stuff coming home, which I get. However they’re still sending reading books and journals home. The class Whatsapp groups are filled with “Has anyone managed to login to...?” “Can anyone post this weeks spellings?”.

It seems like a lots of children are subsequently not doing all the homework as the school have been sending home reminders. I’m about to email the head and tell her this system is just ridiculous and really needs to be streamlined.

Surely a link can be accessed before the 6 month limit is up? Teachers must be putting work up more than twice a year. Or was that a typo?

Seesaw and email

We use padlets, teachers upload the work to a padlet and send the link via Class Dojo.

Homework set on same online learning platform they used during lockdown and uploaded.

Nothing that the DC have done seems to have been looked at yet, let alone marked or commented on, which is another issue entirely

@waitforitwaitforit

The links were sent at the start of lockdown and have been accessed until recently. It’s a Microsoft online folder which can only be accessed through the link sent but as these things do, they expire after a set period of time. It just illogical that a teacher has spend time resending links every six months to the entire school.

That’s my point @onemouseplace if it was all in one place, with one login at least it would make it easer to complete. Instead I keep getting snarky emails to complete homework which we can’t even access it to begin with. Gahh

Nothing that the DC have done seems to have been looked at yet, let alone marked or commented on, which is another issue entirely

There really is no point marking homework and if teachers are doing this it means they won't have time to mark and plan for the lessons in school.

Most homework is pointless apart from reading and practising key skills and the research shows that.

Are schools in some areas closed again? We just get a worksheet in their book bags like normal.

Google classrooms as one document. We seem to have log ins for spelling shed, maths rock stars, educity so it's all mounting up and I've lost have the log ins 😳

We're using Google classroom although they've switched to some weird emoji password system. Also have Times Tables.rockstars and spelling shed too

Ours is using TT rockstars, bug club (for extra reading above the single reading book) then everything else is still sent home in a homework book. I'll be honest I prefer this, as getting DD to practise writing is like pulling teeth, so at least with homework on paper in a book she's doing some writing practice!

Ours haven’t closed. But the kids aren’t allowed things to come back and forth. Only reading book and journal comes home. They’ve even stopped allowing their school bags from home, so you can imagine all the little ones expected to carry multiple things in their hands, water bottles, snack boxes, reading folder etc. Inevitably, a snack box drops and the food tips out. It just baffles me the lack of consistency. Two schools up the road are functioning as before, school bags, homework the lot.

Google classroom for the primary school, Ftomter/Teams for the secondary, plus the maths sites for each. I suggest you make a document listing all the logins, email addresses etc by child.

My DC's schools is just sending home (way too much) homework in physical form.

Online documents via OneDrive which are then marked online plus various online learning platforms. Teachers are marking digitally and feedback given via Class Dojo. It's working well and I much prefer it to the quite frankly antiquated system of sending home reams of paperwork which then usually gets 'helped' by the parents.