Getting started: AQA GCSE Sciences, Oxford Smart edition

AQA GCSE Sciences, Oxford Smart edition, utilises new Kerboodle functionality and features new content, giving you and your students more control, flexibility and support. The documents and information below can help you familiarise yourself with a number of new key, planning, teaching and reporting resources to ensure you get the most out of your Kerboodle subscription.

Please note that to view the examples below, you will need to be subscribed to AQA GCSE Sciences, Oxford Smart edition, and logged into Kerboodle.com.

Planning

Curriculum narratives

AQA GCSE Sciences, Oxford Smart ed., builds on previous learning with core concepts mapped out from KS1 through to KS4. In addition to these curriculum narratives, new unit planners provide clear and comprehensive guidance, ideal for NCTs, EQTs, and non subject-specialists. View the Unit Planners.

Digital Book

Your range of Student Books and Teacher Handbooks are accessible via your course homepage.

These optimised Digital Books offer a higher quality page image with greater clarity of texts and images with an improved experience on smaller screens. They also come with a range of Digital Book tools to personalise your copies. Find out more here.

Resources

Lesson presentations

Front-of-class lesson presentations are now available as PowerPoint presentations. As well as providing a lesson framework, each presentation is fully-editable and slots easily into pre-existing templates.

Required Practicals mini-clip videos

Students can use the Required Practical mini-clip videos to reinforce their understanding of the key skills required in each practical, while separate videos focus on relevant maths skills.

Next Steps & Reporting

Next Steps activities

Completed start tasks trigger automated next steps, Level Up Secure and Level Up Extend, based on students results. Each completed assessment will also populate a bank of Reactivate questions, based on principles of spaced retrieval. Find out more about how Next Steps and Reactivates work.

Reporting

Knowledge, Task and Skills reports give you further insights into progress made through the specification. Reports include additional information, for example Developing, Secure, Extending statuses and details of completed Next Steps.

Creating teaching groups

To get the benefit of the enhanced Kerboodle functionality, adding students to teaching groups before September is essential. It is the administrator’s role to create and manage year groups and to put students into their correct year groups. Once in year groups as a teacher you can create your teaching groups/classes.