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How a Seneca Maths assignment works

A Seneca Maths assignment can contain two types of content: Core Content and Exam Questions. This article explains what each one looks like for students. Finally, it explains how to share the assignment with your classes.

Written by Olivia

Core Content

Each Core Content section covers a specific topic, such as Angles on Parallel Lines or Dividing Mixed Numbers. It is designed to check understanding of key concepts and fill any gaps in knowledge as efficiently as possible.

Intro video

Every section starts with a short video introducing the topic and walking through an example problem.

Adaptive difficulty

Questions start at a basic level. As students answer questions correctly, the difficulty increases. The section will end when the question limit is reached, which is typically between five and eight questions. More capable students will spend most of the section answering more difficult questions.

Question difficulty increasing animation

Get Help

On any question, students can click ‘Get Help’ to enter ‘Practice Mode’. This breaks the problem down into individual steps and tests students on the key aspect of each step. Students are taken all the way to the final answer so they can see exactly how the problem should be solved.

Step-by-step walkthrough open int the sidebar

Applying what’s been learnt

After completing a step-by-step walkthrough, students are given another question in the exact same format, just with different numbers. This time, there's no step-by-step walkthrough available, only a support video if they're stuck. If they get the question wrong, they can try again once more, before being taken through the walkthrough.

Video example open in the sidebar

Exam Questions

After completing any Core Content sections in an assignment, students move on to exam-style questions to practise their exam technique.

Submitting workings

Rather than just entering a final answer, students are expected to write out their full workings on paper as they would in an exam, then submit a photo of them. Students who aren't able to take a photo can type their workings instead.

Cropping an image of maths workings

Automated marking

When a student submits their response to the question, their full workings and answer are automatically marked against a mark scheme as an examiner would. The student can then see exactly where they earned their marks and get a full analysis of their answer before progressing to the next question.

Feedback on a marekd exam question

Sharing with your classes

After having chosen the Core Content and Exam Questions in the assignment, it needs to be shared with students so they can complete it.

Choosing classes

When creating an assignment, you will be prompted to choose the classes the assignment is for. If your school is synced, you will see your classes listed with the appropriate students in each class. Simply select the classes you wish to assign it to.

If your school is not synced and you have not manually created any classes, you will see a single class with 0 students, as shown below. Select that class. Students will be added to the class when they follow the assignment link (explained below).

Setting the due date

Give the assignment a name and set the start and due dates.

Sharing with students

Once the assignment has been created, any student in the classes it was assigned to will be notified via a push notification from the Seneca app as well as an email. An assignment link is also generated. You can copy the link and send it directly to students, or choose to share via Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, or email. Selecting one of these options will take you straight to the chosen platform, where you can quickly distribute the assignment.

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