Sunday nights, back.
Marks go in once, in class, on your phone if you like. Notes stay yours. Reports draft themselves from what you already wrote, and sound like you.
The mark grid, the way you already think.
One row per pupil for the assessment you pick. Type the mark and it shows the percentage, the pupil's percentage on the previous assessment in that strand, and the change between the two. Absent is marked to catch up, never scored as zero.
Eight weeks, one screen. Tap or type.
Pupils down the side, eight weeks across the top. Tap a task square to cycle it: handed in, late, missing. The spelling mark is typed beside it, out of ten, and is committed when you leave the field or press Enter rather than on every keystroke, because each entry is an append that stands on its own.
Tap a square. Not yet, nearly, got it.
Pupils down the side, the skills you are teaching across the top. Tap a cell to cycle it, and the foot of each column shows how much of the class has that skill. Every tap is kept as what you saw that day, not as a correction of what you saw before.
Your notes about your own class are yours.
Notes you write about your own class stay yours alone, this year and every year after: no colleague and no future teacher can read them. Notes written about a pupil by staff who were not their class teacher are shared and follow the child. Nothing is ever edited by someone else, and nothing is deleted.
It shows you the pattern. What to do next is yours.
The six lowest strand averages for the class, and every pupil whose latest mark in a strand has dropped six points or more since the one before. Bhala surfaces; it never diagnoses.
One printed page. Everything to say, nothing you shouldn't.
Marks, progress and your note on a single sheet. Staff-only notes cannot reach it.
Drafted from your words. Three buttons, that's all.
A report draft is assembled from your marks and notes in your school's phrasing. Rebuild it, shorten it, warm it. Nothing is generated about a child.
The signal drops. The marks stay.
Enter marks in the hall, the field or the bus. Bhala keeps them on the device and syncs when the signal returns, with the log intact.
Saved offline
Marks and notes are kept on the device while there is no signal, and go up when there is.