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Teachers' full guide

The illustrated walkthrough for teachers and study-group leads.

This guide follows the teacher workspace and the learning experience your pupils see. Some school and worksheet controls only appear when they have been enabled for your organisation. For short reference answers, see Following your class and Creating and assigning worksheets.

The screenshots come from the existing walkthrough. Some labels and controls have changed since they were taken; where they differ, the text describes how MCQ.SG works today.

Workspace · Students · Overview · Worksheets · Student Practice · Tutor Controls · Reports · Progress & History

1. Getting Around

A teacher who owns a class lands in the Teacher Workspace. Students land on their own learning dashboard.

Teacher workspace with Overview, Students, and Worksheets navigationOpen full screenshot

The Teacher Workspace

The navigation has three groups:

  • Class — Overview (class activity and how pupils answered each question), Topics and Saved.
  • Students — Progress, and Roster where your class allows it.
  • School — Worksheets and Feedback, shown when they're enabled for your school.

If you teach more than one class, use the class switcher to move between them.

Student dashboard with practice choices and progress linksOpen full screenshot

The Student Dashboard

Students see their daily goal, recent activity, practice choices, worksheets you have given out, and links to Progress and History. Their main button continues or starts Daily Practice.

2. Students and Roster

Students is one of the three navigation groups. Progress is a fixed rolling 30-day view; Roster contains class administration.

Students Progress view with 30-day triage groupsOpen full screenshot

Progress and Triage

Active pupils are grouped by how they've done over their last 30 days of practice, so you can see at a glance who may need help and who is doing well. Pupils without recent practice appear separately, rather than with a zero score.

Individual student profile with 30-day and all-time statisticsOpen full screenshot

Individual Student Profiles

Select a student to see their 30-day accuracy, all-time totals, weak areas, and attempt history. Topic, skill, session, and worksheet links can open this same profile with a useful filter.

Roster view with class level, Student groups, and membersOpen full screenshot

Roster and Class Level

This screenshot shows an earlier Roster with a class-level control. Class and pupil levels are now managed by the MCQ.SG team.

In Roster, rename a pupil when the displayed name needs correcting, and help eligible pupils log in. Contact MCQ.SG to change the class's level or to add or remove pupils.

Creating a reusable Student group from selected studentsOpen full screenshot

Reusable Student Groups

Create clearly labelled subsets such as “Demo support group.” Student groups can be edited or removed and then reused when choosing worksheet recipients.

Single-use student login code with a five-minute countdownOpen full screenshot

Login Codes

Where available for school and non-profit classes, the key button creates a single-use code for an eligible student. The code expires after five minutes and is entered from the MCQ.SG login page.

3. Following the Class

The Class group has three views: Overview, Topics and Saved. They follow a period you choose: Last 7 days, Last 30 days or All time. The default is Last 30 days.

Questions view with class patterns, date scope, Saved, and Present controlsOpen full screenshot

Questions

Questions shows how the class answered each item. Each question has one primary teaching classification, and the clearest class-wide patterns appear first. Open a card to see the exact outcome and the answer distribution by student.

Saved view containing bookmarked questionsOpen full screenshot

Bookmarks and Saved

Bookmark questions you want to revisit; they collect in Saved. Saved follows the same period as the other Class views. Every bookmarked question stays in the list, but its class results reflect the chosen period. If no one answered it in that period, the card says so instead of showing a score.

Full-screen classroom presenter with a Reveal answer buttonOpen full screenshot

Present to the Class

Choose Present, select one or more questions, and open the full-screen classroom view. Move with the arrow keys and reveal the answer after discussion. Presenter mode does not collect live answers from student devices.

Topics view with topic and skill accuracy gapsOpen full screenshot

Topics and Skills

Topics lists topic and skill gaps in the active scope, weakest first. Select one to inspect the underlying attempts and identify who needs review.

Overview with class activity cards above the Questions and Topics navigationOpen full screenshot

Activity cards

The cards at the top of Overview show questions answered, who practised, the practice trend, independent practice, and how students practised. Session and worksheet filters update the cards in place.

4. Worksheets

Worksheet authoring is available when the class belongs to an enabled school or tuition organisation. Worksheets appears in the School group when it's enabled, or when you already have access to worksheets.

Worksheet library with For this class, Created by you, and School library viewsOpen full screenshot

The Library

The screenshot shows earlier tab names. The views are now This class, Created by you and Across the school.

This class shows worksheets pupils can currently access, including assignments made by another teacher or for the whole level. Use Created by you for authoring and Across the school to find published worksheets from colleagues. In the class list, student completion and question responses appear together under Class progress, while Timing shows when the worksheet was assigned and the latest student attempt.

Worksheet authoring with level, length, question mix, topic, skill, and difficulty controlsOpen full screenshot

Build a Worksheet

Choose the level, length, MCQ/OEQ mix, topics, skills, and difficulty. OEQ is available at every supported level from Primary 3 to Primary 6. Find questions, review the suggested set, replace or remove items, name it, and save.

Worksheet assignment picker with classes, Student groups, students, and whole-level optionsOpen full screenshot

Assign a Worksheet

Assign the worksheet to any combination of:

  • Everyone in a class.
  • A reusable Student group.
  • One or more individual students.
  • An eligible whole level.

Each teacher chooses the recipients of their own assignment. To change yours, open Manage assignment; clearing the final recipient removes it. Another teacher’s overlapping assignment continues to provide access, and started work and results are retained. The worksheet’s maintainer can also end a colleague’s assignment, or all active assignments, but can’t change the pupils a colleague chose.

Worksheet detail with class access, progress, assignment actions, and History controlsOpen full screenshot

Review and Reuse

The detail page keeps this class’s access and progress prominent. Use the worksheet menu for Preview, History, editing and archive. Only the maintainer can archive; if the worksheet still has active assignments, the option is End assignments and archive, which ends them first. Started work stays available, and restoring later brings the worksheet back unassigned. History names who made each change and labels affected classes, levels, Student groups, or students. Student attempts stay in Progress and Results.

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Student Matrix

The Student matrix compares each student across the class’s worksheets. Search remains available, while list-only progress filters stay out of the matrix. Use the separate student and worksheet sort controls, the arrows, or horizontal scrolling to move through a larger set. Worksheet headers show the class’s completion rate, and in-progress cells show attempted questions.

Worksheet results with learner status and scoresOpen full screenshot

Results

See who has not started, is in progress, or has completed the work. As answers arrive, the results view adds scores and question-level evidence for the selected class.

5. What Students See

Students practise through Daily Practice, Focused Practice, and worksheets. MCQ and OEQ both include immediate learning support.

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Daily Practice

Daily Practice is the personalised default: a short set chosen from the student's level and recent work, with a daily goal that builds a regular habit.

Open-ended practice card with Surprise me and How to use controlsOpen full screenshot

Open-Ended Entry Points

Students can use Surprise me for a quick OEQ start or How to use? for an explanation of the workflow before practising.

Focused Practice filters for question type, level, topic, difficulty, and lengthOpen full screenshot

Focused Practice

With Ranger, including Ranger provided by a school, students choose MCQ or OEQ, level, topics, difficulty, and length. MCQ sets offer 5, 10, 15, or 20 questions; OEQ sets offer 3, 6, or 9.

Multiple-choice question with voice input and Need help supportOpen full screenshot

Help Before Answering

Students can answer by tapping or typing, and supported fields include voice input. If they are stuck before answering, Need help? opens the Tutor for guidance that helps them think the question through, where the question and class settings allow it.

Detailed explanation after a multiple-choice attemptOpen full screenshot

MCQ Feedback

After an attempt, students see whether it was correct, a short explanation, and an expandable detailed explanation of why.

Question-specific Tutor chat with suggested prompts and voice inputOpen full screenshot

Ask After an Attempt

Ask a question opens a question-specific Tutor chat with suggested prompts and text or voice input. OEQ uses the same pattern through Ask the tutor.

Representative OEQ result with partial credit and coachingOpen full screenshot

Automatic OEQ Marking

Written answers are marked part by part, including partial credit. Students receive coaching, a suggested answer, and reasoning steps rather than only a tick or cross.

The screenshot is a representative example rendered with the same result components used by the app.

6. Teacher AI Tutor Controls

This section is conditional. If your class has no teacher policy control, no AI Tutor setting is shown.

Conditional teacher setting for school-hours AI Tutor accessOpen full screenshot

Class Policy

Depending on how the class is configured, Settings may provide:

  • Simple control — turn student Tutor access on or off.
  • School-hours control — available Monday to Friday from 7:30am to 1:30pm Singapore time.

Allow outside school hours keeps access on until the teacher turns the override off. These controls govern availability; they do not provide teacher access to student Tutor transcripts.

7. Reports for Parents

Where weekly parent reports are enabled (with Ranger access, including through a school), families receive a concise account of recent practice and can revisit it in the Learning Journal.

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The Weekly Report

It summarises questions answered, accuracy, topics, what is working, what needs attention, the current focus, and practical suggestions for home.

The screenshot is a representative example rendered with the same report components used by the app.

8. Student Progress and History

Students can review their own attempts and see how they're doing.

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History

History groups past practice by date and can narrow the list to answers that need review or questions the student skipped.

Student Progress page with mastery breakdownsOpen full screenshot

Progress

Progress shows how a student is doing overall and by topic and question type, helping them choose what to practise next. It reflects practice on MCQ.SG, not an exam prediction.