What is Educake?
Educake is an award-winning online assessment and revision platform for science, English, geography, history, computer science, PE, business studies and maths. Educake is now available for Primary KS2 English.
Educake can help you do more teaching, by saving you time on setting homework, marking and analysing results: specification-matched tests can be set in seconds. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback.
Educake uses the principles of retrieval practice to help students recall, revise and retain past learning more effectively. Students can set themselves quizzes in Educake, and they’ll get the same immediate feedback that they get on their Educake homework and classwork.
For primary, Educake offers complete preparation for English SATs at upper KS2. It includes SPaG and reading practice. Educake has recently added audio questions to enhance deeper learning of pupils. Clear reporting of areas that need to be revisited makes Educake a really useful aid for primary teachers.
Educake helps students identify their strengths and weaknesses, so they can focus on the topics that need more work. If they want some guidance, Educake’s algorithm creates topic suggestions and revision quizzes tailored to students’ needs.
Recommended Usage
Using Educake several times a week helps to check understanding of new topics. Setting revision of past topics enables students to actively demonstrate what they know and build stronger recall in a low-pressure environment.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
 Company | Business Name: Educake HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2011 |
| Age Range | 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Online HomeworkAuto-marked QuizzesCurriculum Matched Reporting And Analysis Online RevisionSelf-marking HomeworkAdaptive Learning |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android To use Educake you need access to the internet. For teachers desktop access is required. Students can use Educake on a mobile device, with or without our app. To log in, teachers need an email address and password. Students need a username and password. Google and Microsoft single sign-on means it's easy to get started. |
 Set Up | Set up is quick and easy. You can add your own classes or we’ll do it for you within an hour of receiving them. All data is imported directly to Educake to ensure it’s secure. You’ll get a shareable link for your colleagues to join you on Educake. With student single sign on, the days of your students forgetting their passwords are over. We’ll liaise with your IT department at school to get this set up for you. Your department can be set up within 24 hours so you can create quizzes and set homework as soon as you’re ready to launch with your students. |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Teachers can book a demo to get an idea of how Educake works before committing to a subscription. Once you subscribe to Educake, we recommend booking in a departmental training session to understand the basics of Educake so you can hit the ground running. These are usually completed online but we can also come into school is you’re local to our Educake office. After a few months of using Educake, we offer a Top Tips training session which uses teacher feedback to share best practice to make sure you’re fully utilising all the features which will benefit your department or school. As we’re continually adding new development to Educake, this is also a good opportunity to get teacher feedback to help us continue to add value to the platform. We also have teachers videos ready to share in your CPD sessions at school plus we’re working on videos for parents and students now. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support Schools get their own dedicated account manager who will work with you to ensure you get the most value from your Educake subscription. Our team consist of ex-teachers and ed-tech professionals with many years’ experience working with schools. We’ll arrange an initial call to make sure we understand how you want to use Educake so we can tailor our support. Your account manager will be at hand throughout your subscription to make sure Educake works for you and your students. We use a combination of live person and emails and aim to answer all queries within 30 minutes of receiving them. 96.7% of our schools say our customer support is amazing or great. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Once we have set up your classes on Educake, we will provide your students with an Educake account. Students can easily see their homework and can retake the quiz as many times as they wish to improve their score. All student accounts contain an adaptive algorithm which creates personalised quizzes for the student. Based on retrieval practice and spaced learning, our Revision Wizard knows everything the student has completed so can suggest recommended revision or guide the student through new topics with study guides available for some subjects. Our study and quiz yourself area will set out the curriculum for your students as well as their progress on a topic level. This enables students to take control of their learning and revision and set themselves quizzes. Parents can purchase Educake as an individual subscription for their child. The package is currently science, English and maths. Parents receive regular updates on the progress of their child. Educake is an affordable and convenient alternative to a tutor. This is payable monthly. |
 Tags | online homeworkhomeworkrevisionscienceEnglishmathsHistoryGeographyPEcomputer scienceFormative assessmentreduce workloadKS3GCSEsave timeRevision wizardAdaptive learningEdtechMarkingPrimary |
Educake PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Educake pricing starts from £550 / year We offer discounts when a school subscribes to multiple subjects or multi-school purchases by MATs.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Colin Aspley
Head of Science and Head of Physics
Used Educake weekly for 1-2 years
Aug 2023
Very useful, good value resource that is easy to use.
Colin Aspley found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quick to access questions and tasks to set classes.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Saved question sets are available to reuse for other teachers of the subject and for other classes”
- Moderately improves attainment“Very effective for helping those pupils who "don't know where to start" when it comes to revision .”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Using weekly Year 10 topic review question sets throughout Year 11.”
Karen fiddler
Geography teacher
Used Educake weekly for 4-6 months
Aug 2023
Just feel it can be a bit outdated needs wider aspects for KS3 also key vocabulary like spelling tests etc would be welcomed to support SPAG and bridge the literacy gap as well it might be useful to have watch a video and answer questions
Karen fiddler found Educake:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It can be timely due to having to find the right questions to match SOL particularly for ks3 a lot of the questions are irrelevant as I use progress in geography hodder and find some of the questions are outdated using older terms against the spec such which can confuse our pupils so some weeks I can spend 3 hours setting tasks other weeks it can be less”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“As it doesn’t always link to specification and we have to set weekly I have to repeat questions”
- Moderately improves attainment“Geography has improved slightly since I arrived and have been actively using it”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“They use it in lessons and you can tell those apart who are doing it against those not doing it”
Zoe
Lead Teacher of Science
Used Educake monthly for 5 years+
Aug 2023
Really helpful to all in the department.
Zoe found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Marking quality work”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Quick formative assessments”
- Slightly improves attainment“Allows pupils to see mistakes”
- Does not significantly build student knowledge
Aug 2023
Quick, useful, self marking but is expensive especially for smaller schools and department who have tighter budgets. I struggle to find the money each year
Yvonne found Educake:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Instant marking”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Clear and quick qla for weak areas”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students who use study guide alongside improve”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Those who use the study guides before do better”
Katie Kiernan Brazier
Subject Leader of English
Used Educake weekly for 1-2 years
Aug 2023
Since Educake was recommended to us by another school in our MAT, it has had a huge impact on the way we work. As busy teachers, having a platform which allows us to easily set, manage and track student outcomes has been a game-changer. The ease of use of the platform has made life easier (and raised wellbeing outcomes) for teachers in our department. We were able to seamlessly adopt Educake as part of our curriculum enrichment programme two years ago and we haven’t looked back since!
Katie Kiernan Brazier found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Mark book makes it easy and far less time consuming to track completion. It’s really easy to set homework and can be done in a very short amount of time. Our teachers love the ease of access.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It can be used for a quick cover setting task very easily. Lots of resources that develop skills as well as identify gaps in students’ knowledge.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Grammar and writing structures, in particular, have been impacted by that particular element. It allows you to revisit and correct mistakes.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It’s particularly effective for GCSE subjects. It allows students to interleave their learning, correct mistakes and identify misconceptions themselves.”
Jul 2023
Good tool to secure students knowledge and monitor completion of homework
Sarah found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Homework setting”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“End of topic review”
- Moderately improves attainment“Regular Educake completion = improvement of results”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
MQ
Teacher
Used Educake weekly for 1-2 years
Jul 2023
I hate the fact they don't know their system generated username, and often use this as an excuse. Same with password. The retrieval method should be easier for them to do it themselves
MQ found Educake:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Marking of homework”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Can pick up misconceptions”
- Slightly improves attainment“No idea. Never time to analyse the data. would need to do a class who NEVER use vs a similar class that DOES.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Recall gets better”
Alison
Science teacher
Used Educake daily for 3-4 years
Jul 2023
It is easy to use, student completion rate is high, much higher than for previous homework tasks. Results are immediate so I can reteach or address gaps or misconceptions. It is a real help to reduce my workload and to improve student learning.
Alison found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Cuts time devising questions and marking homework”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It gives me immediate feedback on whether students understand what they have been taught.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Having a chance to recall key ideas and to apply their knowledge helps learners remember more especially the less able.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Questions include the application of knowledge so students think about how it fits into a wider range of scenarios.”
Carlos Gane
Physics Teacher
Used Educake weekly for 5 years+
Jul 2023
I would definitely recommend for assisting lower attaining students. It's not so useful for higher attaining students.
Carlos Gane found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Increases time available to give meaingful feedback on written work”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Realtime formative assessment to guide delivery.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Used effectively to help lwer attaining students to consolidate their knowledge and build routine in to their studies.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Some evidence with lower attaining students.”
Rachel King
English teacher
Used Educake weekly for 3-4 years
Apr 2023
Previous answers
Rachel King found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Self-marking tests, question banks, mark book etc”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Instant overview of misconceptions”
- Moderately improves attainment“Improved knowledge of specific quotations from literature tests”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Key terminology and specific literature quotations”
Emmy
Assistant Head of Department and teacher of English
Used Educake weekly for 1-2 years
Apr 2023
For all the aforementioned reasons.
Emmy found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Has cut down on homework marking entirely”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“No longer have to use lesson time to go through and check homeworks.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students are able to revise independently and engage in focused revision of prior learning.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“See answer to above Q.”
Apr 2023
It would be higher, but the cost is significant when considering the tight/low budgets in schools.
Dale Butler found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Setting quizzes for homework, home work can be checked instantly against the deadline set.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Recap quizzes on previous learning.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Not sure yet. Not enough data.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Helps when they query incorrect answers so I can run through any misconceptions with them.”
Sean
Teacher
Used Educake weekly for 3-4 years
Apr 2023
Educake is easy to use, saves time marking and improves students' attainment
Sean found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduces marking time”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Allows you to check misunderstanding with certain topics”
- Significantly improves attainment“Countless students' marks have improved due to regular quizzes”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Sometimes topics missed in lessons can be covered over Educake”
Apr 2023
For what it offers, I believe it is the best tool on offer. It is very well designed, simple & intuitive to use, provides immediate feedback to both teachers and students and helps build student knowledge
David Boreham found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Saves marking”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Quick and easy homework tasks”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students who do Educake tests before assessments do 15-20% better than those who don't”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students are empowered to self assess and set their own questions”
Charlie
Teacher
Used Educake weekly for 5 years+
Apr 2023
Very efficient way to assess student understanding
Charlie found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduce printing and marking”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Rapid feedback to pupils”
- Slightly improves attainment“Not sure”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Recap learning from lessons”
Cath Jones
Head of Science
Used Educake weekly for 5 years+
Apr 2023
I already have recommended it to schools in the area and I know a lot of them signed up. Also, other departments in the school have also signed up after seeing the benefits and hearing positive feedback from students.
Cath Jones found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Easy way to set HW and monitor student engagement and performance. Also helps to identify strengths and weaknesses in student understanding.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Helps to identify weak areas and I like the comparison of my class performance against the national average.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Analyzed top performers/improvers at GCSE and found a correlation between number of Educake questions answered. Also, I find it's the best way of getting low ability/motivated students to complete HW each week. By setting a minimum pass score I can share with the class the connection between completing HW and improving scores in end of unit tests.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“I like that I can pick the questions and really focus on key points for lower ability, this helps increase their confidence.”
Eileen Sheppard
Teacher of Physics
Used Educake weekly for 5 years+
Apr 2023
On the whole Educake is a fabulous resource. Definitely worth investing in. Very occasionally questions are a bit “clunky”…not worded well…students have difficulty with the language
Eileen Sheppard found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Self marking is great. Only comments & useful links required as feedback for students”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“As revision exercise/homework can cover quite a bit of content”
- Moderately improves attainment“By looking a the data on each student there is definitely a positive correlation bewteen number of Qs attempted and achievement”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Good fir visual learners”
Apr 2023
Reduced workload, helps in remedial work after analysing the scores
Mr Moses Mushekwa found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Self Marking makes it better to see who is doing their work, but also,results give an insight for remedial work”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Pre learning , students could be familiar to the topic as references are made in lessons to having 'done this in my homework'. That for me shows they are independently learning!”
- Significantly improves attainment“Student that do homework on Educake tend to score higher in tests and assessments”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“As said before, in tests and assessments”
Stephen Carruthers
Lead Teaching and Learning and Head of Geography
Used Educake monthly for 3-4 years
Apr 2023
Ease of use Easy to navigate and use interface Quick analysis
Stephen Carruthers found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Reuse previous quizzes Quick analysis of common misconceptions”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Apr 2023
The questions are relevant, provide opportunity ofor self-paced work, the slides are useful for revision, it informs my teaching
N Carlton found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I don't have to create the questions, homework is set for multiple classes easily, I can easily see areas where cohorts have struggled”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Setting multiple classes homework at once”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students have more opportunities for retrieval practice”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students as questions based on incorrect answers and develop a better understanding”
Nabeel
Teacher of Science
Used Educake weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2023
Easy to use, track scores, great for recall of common concepts
Nabeel found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“N/A”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“N/A”
- Moderately improves attainment“N/A”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Improves recall”
Feb 2023
Ease of use for staff and student
Kerens found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Self marking for ease of setting homework and generating lists of topics students struggle with”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment“Students are able to practice questions on their own weak areas”
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Jan 2023
Educake is great. 10/10 is perfection. Like with anything, there are always improvements that can be made, and the Educake Team are very good at making tweaks and adjustments, following feedback from teachers.
Daniel Parkes found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Can re-use quizzes. Can easily amend/edit quizzes. Can set with multiple classes. Can easily share across the department. Once quizzes are created, can easily re-use them/edit in years to come.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Saves time and repetition of workload, as outlined previously. Also, enables teachers to quickly gauge whether or not topics have been understood, and/or which students are engaging with revision/independent work etc and which are not.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Helps with retrieval practice of much of the 'basics' or the building-blocks of knowledge required in order to show understanding in/apply good geography to higher tariff, more demanding examination questions (levels responses).”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Simple - they have to learn stuff to show that they know it, by getting questions right!”
Alex Sullivan
Head of Science
Used Educake daily for 7–12 months
Jan 2023
I think it is an excellent tool. There are some weaknesses such as where some students quickly skip through questions but overall I think it is an excellent product I would recommend it whole heartedly.
Alex Sullivan found Educake:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“We use Educake as our Fortnightly homework across years 7-11. This can be automated so lowers workload. It also marks it automatically.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Unsure”
- Moderately improves attainment“I think the jury is still out for us in school, but I think those who use it regularly and spend time on it are well supported to make gains.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Yes, if they spend time thinking about the questions carefully.”
Jan 2023
The system allows for clear, easy and instant marking/ assessment of students and their progress. It also reduces the workload typically associated with homework and data-gathering, giving class teachers more time to actually teach.
Miss E George found Educake:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduces time spent on checking, keeping a track of and marking homework. It has also allowed for easy progress checks and the easy gathering of data for parents' evenings”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Ability to easily check, keep track of and mark homework. It has also allowed for easy progress checks and the easy gathering of data for parents' evenings”
- Significantly improves attainment“Children are able to easily resit questions/ sets that they struggled with - providing instantly visible progress. Class teachers can spot common misconceptions and address them in lessons - providing long term impacts.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children are able to easily resit questions/ sets that they struggled with - providing the the option to re-access knowledge they struggled with. Class teachers can spot common misconceptions and address them in lessons - providing long term impacts.”
