Suggested Speaking and Writing Homework in QwikTeach

The lesson ends, and you know your student should practice something before the next one. Coming up with a useful task, writing it out, and sending it later is easy to put off when your next student is already waiting.

Newly generated QwikTeach lessons now include suggested speaking and writing homework. The ideas sit alongside the lesson in the student document, ready for you to review. When the class is over, you can edit the prompts and assign one or both with a single button.

Homework ideas that come from the lesson

QwikTeach's lesson planner now writes a Suggested Homework section as part of a new lesson. A speaking suggestion gives the student something to talk about and a target recording length. A writing suggestion includes a title and a task prompt.

The suggestions follow the assignment choices for that student and lesson. You can set the usual speaking and writing options in Edit Student, then adjust the Assignment add-ons when creating a particular lesson. If you haven't saved preferences, both types are suggested by default. If you turn one type off, the planner leaves it out.

These are drafts for you. Generating a lesson doesn't create a speaking or writing assignment on the student's dashboard. You decide what to send after you've taught the class.

Review, adjust, assign

Open the student's lesson document and click Homework on the lesson you just taught. You'll see the proposed tasks with speaking and writing selected if both are available.

Read the prompts as you would any teaching material. You can change the speaking question and target length, edit the writing title or instructions, and add a writing due date. Untick a task if it isn't right for this student today. Then click Assign selected homework.

For example, a lesson on handling a customer complaint might suggest a short spoken response and a written follow-up email. After class, you may decide the student needs only the spoken practice. Untick writing, adjust the question to match the difficulty they actually had, and assign the speaking task.

If you want to set a completely different task, Write a different task still opens the manual homework form.

What happens after you click

The selected tasks become real assignments in the existing student workflows. Speaking homework appears where the student records or uploads their response. Writing homework appears in their writing assignments, where they can submit their work and receive feedback through the review settings you've chosen.

The lesson document shows Assigned beside a suggestion once you've sent it, so you can see what happened when you return to the lesson. A task you didn't select stays available to assign later.

This builds on assigning speaking and essay homework from the lesson document. The difference is the starting point: you no longer have to invent and type every prompt after class. The lesson planner proposes one; you make the final teaching call.

Try it on your next lesson

Create a new lesson for a student, then open that lesson in their document. After teaching, click Homework, review the suggestions, and assign the work that fits what actually happened in class.