Post-16 students need to know exactly what the specification asks, how the marks are earned and where their gaps are. OctoDecks puts exam practice, spec checklists and live checks inside your presentation, and leaves every student with a readable copy to revise from.
Older students won’t admit they’re lost in front of their peers. Nodding along is not understanding.
Students need to see which assessment criteria they’ve covered, not just what today’s slide said.
A PDF of your slides is a poor thing to revise from. Students need the content in a form they can actually read.
Everything below happens inside one OctoDecks presentation. Students join once with a room code and stay with you throughout.
Students rate their confidence on last week’s spec points anonymously, so you know where to start.
Model the method step by step, then set an extended challenge for students aiming for the top grades.
A long-answer question with mark-scheme lines. Reveal the model answer one annotated point at a time and let students self-mark.
Technical terms broken into definition, characteristics, examples and non-examples, which students can open whenever they need them.
The whole session stays on each student’s device as a clean, scrollable article to revise from.
Exam-paper styled slides with mark-scheme lines and annotated model answers revealed step by step. Each annotation shows which sentence earns which mark.
Spec Check and Spec List slides set out the assessment criteria, so students can see what they’ve covered and what’s left.
MCQs, confidence checks and exit tickets show who’s lost without anyone having to say so in front of the class.
The student reading view turns every slide into readable notes, and Frayer models print as revision sheets from the same deck.
Crumble programs shown as real blocks, a put-the-blocks-in-order activity, Code Block and Formula slides, and the Web Player for live software and hardware demos.
Bring-your-own-device friendly. Any browser, no app, no account and nothing to install on college machines.
For individual lecturers, curriculum areas and whole colleges or sixth forms. Invoice and purchase order accepted.
Yes. Nothing is tied to one exam board. BTEC and T-Level teams use spec checklists, worked examples and practical slides like Crumble and the Web Player just as much as A-level teams use exam questions.
Yes. Release recap mode and students can move through the deck freely in the reading view. Generated worksheets and Frayer models give them something to work from offline.
Export any deck to PDF or PowerPoint and upload it to Moodle, Canvas, Teams or Google Classroom like any other file.
Students never create an account. Data is processed on EU servers and session data is deleted when the session ends (and automatically within 72 hours if a session is left open). Slide images stay on your device and are only hosted online while a lesson is live.
30 days free, with every feature unlocked from the first minute. No card required. Enter your email, get a one-click login link and build your first deck.