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Foundry
Formative diagnostics that find skill gaps, then coach and re-check — useful for OLNA preparation, not an official SCSA result.
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What Foundry is for
Foundry helps you find what students are missing, teach and coach those gaps, then re-check with short follow-ups — without running another high-stakes paper every week.
Foundry runs in three modes. Assay is the first full diagnostic (~32 items) when you start a subject. Temper is a shorter follow-up (4–12 items) while you are teaching known gaps. Quench is a mid-term or pre-window check (8–16 items). The usual rhythm is Assay → teach and Socrates practice → Temper → teach again → optional Quench.
How you use it
- Open your Module → Lab → Assign Foundry diagnostic.
- Choose Assay, Temper, or Quench; set subject, year band, and an optional due date, then publish.
- Students sit the diagnostic and submit. Results repeat at the foot of the sit with suggested next steps.
- Open Results for class gaps and plan your next teach or Temper follow-up.
- Students practise with Socrates on concrete misses — coaching is teach-first for struggling learners.
- Later, assign a shorter Temper on the same subject. Done Workroom cards show compact practice needs at a glance.
A skill gap means mastery under about 60% on that skill in the diagnostic — a planning flag, not a pass/fail grade. Items are personalised by year band, subject, and prior responses. They are original formative practice for OLNA preparation: not official SCSA papers and not an official Category result.
Key screens
Foundry home shows pathways and your list of diagnostics. Create assigns a new Assay, Temper, or Quench. Students sit from Session (you can Preview first). Results shows scores and class gaps. Practice opens Socrates on current gaps.