Reteach turns your class's quiz answers into a short list of what to go over again. It ranks the sections where the class missed the most questions, shows which students missed them, and shows exactly which wrong answer each student picked. From there you can open the lesson to review it or put the section back on students' assignment lists. It's built for the five minutes before you plan tomorrow's warm-up.
Available on: Intertwined Solo and school plans. On the Free plan, the Reteach page shows a card describing student performance, with a way to upgrade. See Why is a feature locked or blurred?
Opening Reteach
Open the Insights group in the sidebar and click Reteach.
The page opens on the class you looked at most recently. Use the CLASS menu at the top right to pick another class, and the COURSE menu if the class has more than one course.
You can also click Open Reteach on the What to reteach card in a classroom's Overview tab, which opens Reteach on that class and course. Open in class on the Reteach page goes the other way, back to the class's Overview.
How topics are chosen and ranked
Each topic on the list is a section of the course. A section appears as soon as anyone in the class has answered one of its quiz questions wrong. Sections are ranked by the total number of missed questions, highest first. When two sections are tied, the one with the lower class score comes first.
It helps to know what "missed" means here. Students keep answering a quiz question until they get it right, and every wrong try is counted. So "14 missed" means 14 wrong tries across the class, not 14 questions left unanswered, and a student who missed a question once and then got it right still counts as having missed it. That's deliberate: a wrong first instinct is exactly what reteaching is for.
A few related figures appear with each topic:
Students: how many students made at least one wrong try on the section's quiz, including students who haven't finished it yet.
Class score: the average quiz score on the section, counting only students who finished the quiz. It uses the same colors as the Gradebook: green for 80% and up, amber for 55 to 79%, and orange for under 55%. For how a quiz score is worked out, see How quizzes and assessments work.
The summary tiles
Topics flagged: how many sections are on the list. The bar shows how many have a class score in each band, and the line underneath counts those under 55%.
Students affected: how many different students missed at least one question on a flagged topic. See who lists them, and each name opens that student's page.
Questions missed: the total across every topic. The bar shows how concentrated the misses are, and the line underneath gives the share in the top three topics. If most misses are in one or two sections, a focused review will cover most of the class's trouble.
Most-missed topic: the top section by name, with its missed questions, students and class score. Open it jumps to that topic in the list.
Reading a topic
Each row shows its rank, the section's number and unit, the section name, the number missed, the number of students and the class score. The top three ranks are highlighted. Click a row to open it.
Inside, the students who missed questions are listed with the lowest score first. For each student you'll see:
Their name, which opens their page.
Their status on the section (Mastery, Developing, Needs support or In progress) and their score.
Each question they got wrong, with Their answer and the Correct answer side by side.
Read a few students' wrong answers before you plan. When most of the class picked the same wrong answer, you've found a specific misconception, such as mixing up gross and net pay, and a two-minute warm-up on that one idea will do more than reteaching the whole section. When wrong answers are scattered, the section as a whole may need another pass.
If a topic has no students listed under it, the row explains that there are no completed quizzes for it yet. Check back once more students have finished.
Acting on a topic
Review the lesson
Click View lesson to open the section's first lesson, so you can see exactly what students read before the quiz and plan your review around it.
Assign the section again
Open the topic and click Assign as coursework.
In the dialog, pick a Publish date (today by default) and a Due date. The due date has to be after the publish date and in the future.
Click Assign to class. A message confirms the section was assigned as coursework.
This creates a regular section assignment (the section's lessons and quiz) for the whole class. It appears on students' Assignments pages and in your assignment tracking like any other.
Important: Quizzes can't be retaken, so reassigning a section doesn't give students a new attempt. Students who already finished the section's lessons and quiz will show as done straight away. Reassigning is most useful for students who haven't reached the section yet, or to put the lessons back on everyone's list with a date. For students who finished with a low score, plan the review in class and use the lessons as the reading. See Tracking assignment progress and completion.
Tips
Look at the class score and the number missed together. Many misses with a class score still in the green usually means a tricky question or two, not a weak topic.
Use the exact wrong answers as discussion prompts: "Half of us picked this. Why is it tempting?" works well as a warm-up.
Check Reteach after each unit, before you move on. Sections from earlier in the course stay on the list, so you can see whether the same idea keeps tripping students up.
To reteach a small group rather than the whole class, note the names under the topic and create an assignment for those students from Coursework. See Assigning work to the whole class, a group, or individual students.
Common questions
Why is a student with a good score listed under a topic?
One wrong try is enough to be listed. A student who missed one question on a long quiz and then got it right on the retry can still score in the 90s. Their wrong answer is shown so you can see whether it's part of a pattern.
Why does a section with a good class score appear near the top?
Topics are ranked by the number of missed questions, and a long quiz in a big class can collect many misses even when most students did well. The class score helps you decide whether it really needs reteaching.
Will a topic leave the list after I reteach it?
No. The list is built from students' quiz answers, which don't change, so a topic stays on the list. Use it as a record of where the class struggled.
The page says there's nothing to reteach. Is something wrong?
Sections only appear once students have answered quiz questions wrong. Early in a course, or in a class that hasn't reached a quiz yet, the list can be empty.