In short. The assistant drafts three things: the class teacher's remark on a report sheet, the body of a lesson plan, and continuous assessment questions with their marking scheme. It drafts; a teacher decides. Nothing it writes reaches a parent or a student until a member of staff has read it and approved it.
What it drafts
Report sheet remarks
At the end of a term a class teacher writes a remark for every student on their register. For a class of forty across three terms that is a hundred and twenty comments, and they tend to become the same few sentences repeated.
From Report Sheet Remarks on the teacher portal, pick the exam and the assistant drafts a remark for each student in your section. Each one is written from that student's own figures: their marks subject by subject, whether their average has moved since last term, and their attendance. You edit what does not read right, then approve.
Only an approved remark prints. Until you approve one, the report sheet falls back to the school's standard wording based on the overall percentage.
Lesson plans
On Lesson Plans › New Lesson Plan, choose the class, the subject and the topic, say how long the lesson is, and the assistant fills in the objectives, the lesson body broken into stages with timings, the teaching method, the resources and the homework.
It plans for the classroom you actually have — a board, a class textbook, materials you can buy locally — rather than assuming a projector or a device for every child.
Nothing is saved when you draft. The boxes are filled in and the plan is stored only when you submit the form, exactly as if you had typed it.
CA test questions
Open a CA test and choose Questions. Give the topic and how many questions you want, and the assistant drafts them with their marks and, for written questions, a marking scheme. Objective questions come with four options and the answer marked.
The marks have to add up to what the test is marked out of. If they do not, the draft is thrown away rather than shown to you — a test marked out of ten whose questions total thirteen is the kind of mistake that is easy to miss and awkward to discover in the classroom.
Every question arrives as a draft. Approve them one at a time, or use Approve all once you have read them.
The assistant is never allowed near a mark. It does not grade work, does not decide results, and does not change a figure anywhere in Academiq. It writes prose about numbers your school has already recorded.
What is checked before you see a draft
A few things are verified against your school's own records, and a draft that fails is discarded rather than handed to you:
- A remark must name a subject the student actually sat. A remark praising a student's Further Mathematics when they do not take it never reaches you.
- A lesson plan or question paper must be for the topic you asked for. A good plan for the wrong lesson is the easiest thing to miss.
- CA marks must add up to the test total, and an objective question's answer must be one of its options.
- A written question with no marking scheme is dropped, because a question nobody can mark consistently still reaches the student.
These checks are why a draft sometimes fails with a message rather than appearing. It is working as intended: it would rather give you nothing than give you something wrong.
What leaves your school
Drafting sends a short brief to an AI provider outside Academiq. It is worth knowing exactly what is in it.
- Report sheet remarks: the student's first name only, their class, the name of the assessment, their marks by subject, the change in their average since last term, and their attendance rate. No surname, no admission number, no contact details, no fee or medical record.
- Lesson plans: a class name, a subject, a topic and a lesson length. Nothing about any student at all.
- CA questions: a class, a subject, the test title, the topic and the total marks. Nothing about any student at all.
Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 this is still processing by a third party, so your school should be satisfied with the provider your platform operator uses and should say so in its own privacy notice to parents. If that is not something your school wants to do, leave the assistant switched off — every one of these screens works perfectly well without it.
The monthly allowance
Each draft costs money, so plans that include the assistant carry a number of drafts per month. A teacher sees how many are left before they draft, and administrators are told once when the school passes four fifths of its allowance and again when it runs out.
The allowance resets on the first of each month. Running out never stops anyone working: teachers write remarks, lesson plans and questions by hand exactly as they did before.
A few things worth knowing about how drafts are counted:
- One remark is one draft, so drafting a class of forty costs forty.
- A draft the checks throw away still counts, because the work was done at the provider's end either way.
- A draft that failed because the provider could not be reached does not count.
- Re-drafting a remark you already approved is refused, so you cannot lose approved work by clicking twice.
Turning it on
The assistant is part of your subscription plan rather than a setting inside your school. If AI Report Sheet Remarks is not on your plan, the drafting buttons do not appear and the rest of those screens behave normally.
Speak to your platform operator about adding it, or about raising the monthly allowance if your teachers are running out before the end of term.
A word on judgement. A remark on a report sheet is read by a parent as the school's opinion of their child, and your name is on it. Read every draft properly before approving it. The assistant is good at turning figures into readable prose; it knows nothing about the child in front of you, and it will never know when a sentence is wrong for them.