Homework here is a pointer at real content plus a due date — not a separate worksheet. That matters, because it means "done" is measured by the learner’s own progress bar rather than by them telling you they finished.
Without a plan: Setting and marking homework
Gated on being marked as a teacher, not on a plan.
Watch: Setting homework
1 min 29 s · presented by Jason, Mandarin Temple's AI tutor
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- Hi, I’m Jason, Mandarin Temple’s AI tutor. Here’s how to set homework for a circle, and see who has done it, shown on a demonstration teacher’s account.
- Homework lives under Assignments, a tab in the red bar at the top of the page. Select Assign content to open the form.
- Set it for a whole circle, or for one learner in it. Your first circle is already chosen.
- Choose a level and a type: a lesson, a grammar point, a reading, a word or flashcards, among several others.
- Then pick the content itself. Here it’s HSK 1, lesson one: Connecting With You, from the first unit.
- A due date and a note are both optional, and you can queue several activities to set together.
- Assign sets it for everyone in the circle at once, and it appears in each learner’s own homework list.
- Select Who to see each learner by name, and how far through the lesson they’ve got, checkpoint by checkpoint.
- Above the list, a summary shows completion across all your homework, and Export CSV downloads all of it.
- That’s homework set for the whole circle. Next, see how each learner is really getting on.
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Setting an assignment
- Pick the content — A lesson, a unit, a reading passage, a grammar point, a mock exam paper — anything with a page. The assignment points at it rather than copying it. For a mock exam you also see the score each learner got.
- Give it a title — What the learner sees in their list. "Unit 3 before Thursday" beats "Assignment 4".
- Add instructions — Optional, and worth using. What to focus on, how long to spend, what you will ask about next lesson.
- Add a private note — Also optional. Visible to the learner, so it is a note to them rather than about them.
- Set a due date — With a timezone, so a deadline means the same thing to a learner in another country as it does to you.
How "done" is decided
An assignment is complete when the learner has cleared the checkpoints for the content it points at — the same checkpoints their own progress bar counts.
So there is no self-reporting, and no discrepancy between what they see and what you see. If their lesson bar reads 8/10, your roster shows the assignment as not yet done, and both are reading the same number.
What the learner sees
Assignments appear in their own list with your title, your instructions, the due date in their timezone, and a link straight into the content. They are notified when one is set.
Nothing about it changes the content itself — they get the ordinary lesson, and their progress on it counts toward their own XP and streak exactly as it would have anyway.
Following up
- The roster shows the state of every assignment — Who is done, who is partway, who has not started.
- Progress tells you where they stopped — Which is usually more diagnostic than whether they finished. Everyone stops in the same place when a lesson is too hard.
- Message them from the circle — Rather than chasing by email, so the conversation sits next to the work.
Common questions
Assignments point at existing content rather than carrying their own questions. Use the instructions field for anything specific you want them to do with it.