No class test lost in a register. From the teacher's phone to the family's app.
Class test management for Indian schools: weekly, monthly and unit tests set for one section or several, marked on the teacher's phone or the web, with absences, remarks and scanned answer sheets on one record. Publishing tells each family their child's marks are ready, and a test cycle runs the whole school's monthly test with one datesheet and one result sheet with rank.
Class test management before software
Ask a principal why she started looking at class test management software and the story usually begins with a question she could not answer: how did 7-B do in last week's test? It is a Friday afternoon in a CBSE school in Kanpur. A TGT maths teacher has collected 41 answer sheets from 7-B, and two more bundles from 7-A and 8-C sit in her bag. The marks go into her red register on Sunday night. On Monday someone photographs the page for the class WhatsApp group, where a father asks why his son's name is missing. At month end the class teacher walks from staffroom to staffroom copying six subjects' marks onto chart paper for the notice board.
The marks exist, in seven registers, three phones and one chart paper. What nobody can see is the pattern. The girl in 7-B who scored 18, then 14, then 9 out of 25 looks fine in each register on its own, and nobody adds it up until the half-yearly report card arrives and her mother asks why nobody said anything in July. Absent children are a zero in one register and a blank in another, so every average is slightly wrong. The most expensive cost is the quietest: weekly tests are a school's early warning system, and in most schools the warning goes off months too late.
If this sounds like your staffroom, the problem is not effort. A test whose marks live in one teacher's register cannot warn anyone. Inkwelly Class Tests gives every weekly, monthly and unit test one home: set on the teacher's phone, marked between periods, visible to the principal the same day and released to families when the teacher is ready.
What Inkwelly Class Tests actually replaces
Class Tests is for the frequent paper test a teacher sets, marks and hands back: the Friday weekly test, the monthly test, the unit test at the end of a chapter, the surprise test, the dictation and the oral. It sits between the formal term exam and the online quiz that marks itself. It replaces the teacher's red register, the photo of the mark list on WhatsApp, the chart paper filled at month end and the Monday round of asking who has finished marking. Every test gets a subject, the sections it was given to, a total and pass mark or grades, a date, and one list of every child with their marks, absences, remarks and answer sheets.
It is deliberately separate from report cards, and it is worth saying plainly before a demo does: class test marks do not flow into the report card. Term exams, the periodic tests that count on the report card and printed marksheets live in Examinations, which is built for that job. Class Tests covers everything in between, the weekly habit of checking whether a class understood Chapter 4 before the term exam asks. Keeping the two apart means a surprise test on a bad Monday can never quietly change a report card.
What the staffroom stops doing
- Copying marks from answer sheets into a register nobody else in the school can open
- Photographing the mark list and posting it to a class WhatsApp group of forty families
- Collecting six subjects' marks on chart paper to put up the monthly test result
- Asking every teacher on Monday whether last week's test has been marked yet
- Writing zero for an absent child in one register and leaving a blank in another
- Adding totals and working out class positions on a calculator the night before a meeting
- Hunting for a child's answer sheet when a parent disputes a mark three weeks later
- Writing out the same test again for next week because the old one lives in a notebook
- Discovering at the half-yearly exam that a child has been slipping since July
- Guessing which teachers are testing their classes regularly and which ones are not
The class test screens your teachers and principal will use
This is not a marks column bolted onto the timetable. It is a small working desk for the weekly test, used by subject teachers between periods, by class teachers before a parent meeting, by the exam coordinator at the end of the month and by the principal every morning. Every screen below exists in Inkwelly today. On the web they work in English and Hindi. Teachers do most of the daily work from the Inkwelly staff app on their own phone, and each person sees only the tests their role allows.
Everything a weekly test needs
Tests dashboard
One morning screen for the principal: tests set and published, papers waiting for marks, the average score, how scores are spread, performance by subject and section, an eight-week trend and the children who need support.
Set a test quickly
Pick the sections or a teaching batch, the subject, the type and the date, then marks or grades with a total and pass mark. A batch fills in the subject and sections itself, and chapters can be tagged.
Marks or grades
Any test can take marks out of a total, or a grade or symbol instead, such as A+ or a double tick for an oral test, dictation or handwriting. A grade-only test is never forced into a percentage.
Marks on the phone or the web
Teachers enter marks section by section on the staff app, with one tap for absent, a remark per child and a draft kept on the phone. On the web, Enter jumps to the next student.
Scanned answer sheets
Photograph a child's answer sheet with the phone camera, or upload images and PDFs on the web, one page or several. The sheet stays with that child's marks, and the family sees their own copy.
Publish when you are ready
Publishing releases the marks. Each child's family gets a notification in the Inkwelly app that the marks are ready, in English or Hindi, and the school can add WhatsApp or SMS.
Mark-list and Repeat test
Download an Excel mark-list with one sheet per section, marks, AB for absent, remarks and the average, highest and lowest. Repeat test copies a test for next week as a fresh draft.
Test cycles
Plan the whole monthly or unit test once, across classes and subjects. Papers are created for each subject teacher, the datesheet reaches families in one message, and a board shows what is holding up the result.
Result sheet with rank
Every child, every subject, the total, the percentage and the rank within the section, with equal totals sharing a rank. Absent counts as zero, unmarked papers stay out of the total, and it downloads as Excel.
Student performance
Every child with their tests, average, best and lowest score, rank in the section and trend, sorted into groups such as at risk, slipping, missed tests and top performers, with an Excel export.
Lock and unlock
A teacher locks a test once marking is done, and a school can lock published results automatically after a set number of days. Only people allowed to unlock tests can reopen one, with a written reason.
Teacher and principal views
A teacher sees and marks the tests they set. The principal and vice principal see every test in the school, filter the list by teacher and see which papers are still waiting for marks.
Setting a weekly test, monthly test or unit test
Most schools test far more often than they record. A class teacher gives a dictation on Tuesday, the science teacher springs a surprise test on Thursday, and the whole school sits a monthly test in the last week of August. Inkwelly handles all of them the same way, so nothing depends on which teacher happens to be organised. A test needs a name, a type, the sections it was given to and how it will be marked. The date and the chapters are optional and can be added later, so a teacher can set the test up in the staffroom and fill in the rest after the bell.
Eleven test types, marks or grades
Tests come in eleven types: weekly, monthly, unit, surprise, dictation, oral, assignment, practical, mental maths, handwriting, and other, with a name of your own such as recitation. Each test is marked one of two ways. Marks mode takes a number out of a total, like 18 out of 25, with an optional pass mark, and children who score below it are flagged as below pass on the test and in the student reports. Grade mode takes a letter or a symbol instead, like A+, a double tick or Good, which suits oral tests, handwriting and dictation in the primary classes. A grade-only test is never turned into a percentage, so it never pulls down an average it doesn't belong in.
One test, several sections, or one teaching batch
A test can be given to one section or several at once, so the Class 7 maths test for 7-A, 7-B and 7-C is one test with a mark list for each section, not three copies to keep in step. Teachers who work with teaching batches can pick the batch instead of the sections: Inkwelly fills in the subject and the sections its students sit in, and the teacher can still change either. A test can also carry the chapters and topics it covered, say all of Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4, so it appears on the teacher's lesson plan chapter screen next to the homework set for the same chapter.
A three-step setup on the teacher's phone
On the staff app, a teacher starts a test from the teaching batch she is about to test, in three short steps. The first covers who and what: sections, subject, chapters, type and date. The second covers marking: marks or grades, the total, the pass mark and a name, with a suggested name ready. The third is a review that points out anything missing. She then saves it as a draft or publishes it, and lands on the test's own page, where the marks go in. Her Tests screen lists her tests three ways: recent, date-wise on a month calendar that counts the marks she still owes, and subject-wise, one card per batch.
On the web, for the office and the coordinator
The web form does the same job on a bigger screen, with the test name typed in each language your school uses. An admin setting a test on a teacher's behalf picks the owning teacher, so the marking and the results belong to the person who teaches the class, not to the office. Once marks exist, the same form lists which fields can no longer change and why. The test list can be searched and filtered by status, type, subject and batch, the principal and vice principal can also filter by teacher, and a my tests only switch narrows it to the tests you set yourself.
School test marks entry that fits between two periods
A weekly test fails the moment marking takes longer than the gap between two periods. So marks entry is built to be quick on a phone, quicker on a keyboard, and forgiving of interruptions. Marks go in against the live class list, sorted by roll number, so a child admitted last week appears without anyone updating a register. Marks above the total or below zero are refused on the spot, and every save reports how many rows were saved and which ones need another look. Each test's page then shows the results section by section, with the average, highest and lowest score, and can be printed for the notice board.
A weekly test marks app on the teacher's phone
On the staff app a teacher opens the test, picks the section tab and works down the list: a number or a grade against each name, one tap to mark a child absent, and a remark where needed. Marks she types are kept on the phone as a draft, so an incoming call or a switch to another app doesn't wipe out twenty marks. Answer sheets can be photographed with the phone camera, or picked from the gallery or files, on the same screen. When she saves, any row that failed is shown in place. The test's page then shows the class at a glance: marked, absent and not marked, the average, highest and lowest, how many passed, and a spread from under 33% to above 80%.
Marks entry on the web
On a computer, the mark sheet is built for the keyboard: type a mark, press Enter, and the cursor jumps to the next student. Sections sit on tabs, a search box finds a child by name, and a counter shows how many rows are still unsaved, with a button to discard changes. A child can be marked absent with a reason, such as sports trials or medical leave, and any child can get a remark. Answer sheets can be attached as images or PDFs, one page or several. Marks above the total, negative marks and numbers that aren't valid are flagged on the row before anything is saved, and a save that only partly works says how many rows failed.
Absent is not zero
A child who missed the test is marked absent, not given a zero, and the difference is kept everywhere. Averages, best and lowest scores and ranks leave absent papers out, so one day of fever never looks like a failed test. A paper nobody has marked yet is shown as not marked, never as a zero, and it stays out of every number until someone enters it. The one place absence counts is the test cycle result sheet, which follows the usual Indian register convention: absent prints as AB and counts as zero against the total, while an unmarked paper is left out of the total and the child is flagged as not fully marked.
Scanned answer sheets for every child
Every child's result can carry their answer sheet, one page or several, photographed on the phone or uploaded on the web. When a parent disputes a mark three weeks later, the teacher opens the child's row and the sheet is there, next to the mark and the remark, instead of somewhere in a staffroom cupboard. Once results are published, the family can open their own child's answer sheet in the Inkwelly app, beside the marks and the remark, and see exactly where the marks went. They never see another child's sheet or the class list. Sheets can be added or removed until the test is locked, so a blurred photo can be replaced with a clearer one.
Register, Excel and WhatsApp vs Inkwelly Class Tests
Unit test result software that tells families when marks are ready
Publishing is the one moment in a class test that reaches outside the staffroom, so it is worth being precise about. A test stays a draft while it is being set and marked, and in that state no student or parent can see it. Publishing releases the marks: the test appears in the family's Inkwelly app with the child's result, and each family gets a notification that the marks are ready. A published test can still be corrected afterwards, until it is locked, and a correction doesn't send a second notification.
What publishing sends, and to whom
When a teacher publishes a test, every active student in the sections it was given to gets a notification in the Inkwelly app: "Test results are out! Aarav, your marks for Unit Test 1 – Science are ready. Tap to view!" The message is written in English and Hindi and goes out in the family's language, or the school's default. The school can also switch on WhatsApp and SMS versions of the same message in Communications. A school that would rather tell families itself can turn these notifications off in the Tests settings, and publishing then releases the marks quietly. Tapping the notification opens that test in the app, so nobody has to search for it.
What the family sees in the app
In the student app, the Tests screen lists every published test for the child's section with the child's own marks or grade, newest first. Opening a test shows the date, the subject, the chapters it covered, the total and the pass mark, the child's result, the teacher's remark and the answer-sheet scans, if the teacher attached any. Draft tests never appear, so a child never sees a test until the teacher publishes it. Each subject's page in the app also shows released test marks alongside exam marks, so the family sees one picture of how the child is doing in Science, not two separate ones.
Test cycles: the monthly test result sheet for the whole school
A single class test is one teacher's one paper. A school's August monthly test is forty of them: eight subjects across five sections, each set by a different teacher and marked on a different day. Run as forty separate tests, the office ends up chasing forty teachers, families get eight notifications in one evening, and still nobody has a result sheet. A test cycle ties them together. It is planned by the principal or vice principal, it holds no marks of its own, and it gives the school one datesheet, one grading board, one publish and one result sheet.
Plan once, and each subject teacher gets their paper
Creating a cycle takes four steps: name it, say Monthly Test — August, pick the classes, check the papers and review. Inkwelly works out the papers from the school's teaching batches, because a batch is the one place that knows who teaches Hindi to 6-B. Each paper takes a date and marks; the cycle's defaults fill in every paper and any one can change, so Class 1 can sit out of 20 and Class 5 out of 50 in the same cycle. Papers are then created as drafts owned by each subject teacher, with nobody notified yet. A paper with no teacher is held back and flagged, never handed to the office.
Announce the datesheet in one message
When the plan is ready, announcing the datesheet sends each child one notification with the number of papers their own section sits and the date of the first paper, for example 8 papers, starting 05 Aug 2026. Sections can differ, so a child in 6-B who sits seven papers is told seven. The family's app then shows the cycle's datesheet, paper by paper, before any marks exist. Teachers see the cycle on their own phone too, with their papers and how much marking is left. Existing tests can also be pulled into a cycle afterwards, for the common case where teachers set their papers first and the office decides later that those were the monthly test.
A grading board and a readiness check
The cycle board is the screen a principal opens on the 25th to find out which subject is holding up the result. It lists every planned paper with its teacher, whether it has been created and how many children in the section are marked, with totals for papers ready and students still to mark. When the office presses publish, Inkwelly first shows what is ready. Papers where every child is marked or absent go out; the rest are held back with the reason beside each, such as 31 of 40 marked. A school that wants everything out anyway can include the unmarked papers, and the dialog says plainly that children will see those papers with no marks.
Ready means the whole class
Readiness is measured against the live class list, not against the marks already saved. A child who joined 6-B after marking began has no mark at all, and the paper only counts as ready once that child is marked too. The same rule runs the dashboard, the teacher's Tests screen and the cycle board, so the three never disagree about how much marking is left. An empty section is never counted as ready, because publishing it would announce results to nobody and hide a problem with the class list. Papers already published, archived or never created are listed separately, each with its reason.
See one weekly test go from paper to the family's phone
Bring last month's mark register and one real class. In a live demo we'll set a test, enter marks on a phone, attach an answer sheet, publish the results and build the month's result sheet, on screen, in front of you.
One result sheet, one message per child
Publishing a cycle releases all its ready papers together and replaces the per-paper notifications with one message per child: Monthly Test — August results! Marks for 8 papers are ready. A child with eight papers gets one notification, not eight in the same minute, and the number quoted is the papers released for that child's own section. The result sheet is built from the marks the teachers entered, so there is nothing to copy onto chart paper and nothing to add up by hand. It can be read on screen section by section, including before publishing, which is how an exam coordinator checks the marking before anything goes out.
The rules the result sheet follows
The result sheet shows every child in the section, each subject as a column, then the total, the out-of, the percentage and the rank. Four rules keep it honest. Absent counts as zero and prints as AB, the way every paper register does it. A paper not marked yet is left out of both the total and the out-of, and the child is flagged, so the teacher hasn't finished never reads as the child scored nothing. Grade-only papers, like handwriting, show their grade and never enter the total. Rank is worked out within the section, with equal totals sharing a rank: 1, 2, 2, 4. The sheet downloads as Excel, one sheet per section.
Showing rank to students is your call
Plenty of schools, many CBSE schools among them, would rather not put a rank in front of a child at all, and once parents have seen a rank it cannot be taken back. So rank on the family's side is off by default. The principal's result sheet always shows rank. The child's cycle card in the app shows each subject's marks, the total and the percentage, and adds the child's position in the section only if the school switches on show rank to students in the Tests settings. The setting can be switched off again at any time. Staff screens keep ranks throughout, because a class teacher preparing for a parent meeting needs them.
Correcting marks, and knowing when they stop changing
Every staffroom knows the two opposite problems. A teacher adds up a total wrongly and can't fix it because the software has frozen the test, or marks keep quietly changing weeks after parents have seen them. Inkwelly handles both. Until a test is locked, almost everything can be corrected, including after results are published. Once marking is done the test can be locked, so nothing changes without a written reason, and a school can choose to lock published results automatically after a set number of days.
What can still change after marks are in
Once the first mark is entered, a teacher can still fix the name, the type, the date, the pass mark, the chapters and the total, as long as the new total isn't below the highest mark already given. She can add a section at any time. Only the changes that would break the marks already recorded are refused: switching between marks and grades, moving the test to a different teaching batch, and removing a section whose children already have marks or answer sheets. The edit screen lists these as plain sentences with the reason, so nobody fills in a field only to be refused when they save. For a genuine change of format, Repeat test makes a fresh copy.
Lock, unlock and automatic lock
When marking is done, the teacher locks the test from the web or the staff app; a test needs at least one mark before it can be locked. A locked test refuses new marks, answer sheets, edits, deletion and archiving, while publishing, exporting and Repeat test still work. Only people allowed to unlock tests, the principal and vice principal by default, can reopen one, and they must write why, such as Roll 14's paper was re-checked; the reason stays on the test. Automatic locking, from 1 to 90 days after results are published, is off unless the school sets it. Switching it on also locks older published tests already past the limit, within the hour, and an unlock restarts the countdown.
A class test dashboard for the principal's morning
The Tests dashboard answers the questions a principal asks on a Monday. How many tests have been set this session, and how many are published. How many children have been assessed, and their average score, worked out as a percentage of each test's own total so a test out of 20 and one out of 50 sit side by side. Which tests are waiting for marks, which are coming up in the next 30 days and which were published recently. How each subject and section is doing, how scores spread from below 40% to above 90%, and an eight-week trend. On the phone, the principal gets a pocket version with a chase-list of the ten tests owing the most marks and a screen showing which teachers are setting tests.
Student performance, child by child
The Students screen turns every test into a view of every child. Each row shows the tests a child sat, how many are marked, absent or unmarked, their average, best and lowest score, papers below the pass mark, their rank in the section and a trend line of their last six papers. Children fall into groups a coordinator opens with one tap, each with its rule on the screen, and the list can switch to a subject view. It can be filtered by class, section, subject, test type, test cycle and dates, and the whole filtered list downloads to Excel with a column per subject. Teachers see the same screen built only from the tests they set.
- At risk: average below 50%, or at least one paper below its pass mark
- Slipping: five or more papers, and the last three average 10 points lower
- Missed tests: absent for at least one test, most absences first
- Top performers: average of 75% or more, with no paper below pass
- On track: average between 50% and 75%, with no paper below pass
- Not assessed: no marks entered for the child yet this session
One child's page, ready for a parent-teacher meeting
Open any child and the page is built for the conversation that follows. At the top sit their average against the class average, their rank in the section, the range between their best and lowest score, and how many papers are marked, absent or below pass. A score trend plots each marked paper against the class average, with a 50% line and papers below pass in red. A subject card shows where the child is strongest and where they need work. Talking points turns it into short sentences a class teacher can copy before the meeting, such as The last 3 papers average 12 pts lower than the ones before. Below sits every paper with its score, class average, rank, teacher and remark, and for the principal a second tab shows the child's test cycles.
Inkwelly Class Tests vs a marks column in a generic ERP
Built for everyone who touches a class test
A class test passes through more hands than it seems. The subject teacher sets and marks it, the class teacher answers parents about it, the exam coordinator chases the marks for the monthly result, the principal reads the numbers and the family waits for the result. In most schools each of them keeps their own register, WhatsApp group or chart paper. In Inkwelly they all work on the same test, each person sees only what their role allows, and nobody has to walk across the building to ask whether 8-C has been marked yet.
For the principal and the exam coordinator
Your morning starts with the Tests dashboard: tests waiting for marks, tests coming up, the average by subject and section, and the children who need support. Filter the test list by teacher, and a quiet corridor shows up as a teacher with no tests this month, not as a surprise at the half-yearly exam. Test cycles give the monthly test one plan, one board and one result sheet, and the readiness check stops a half-marked paper going out by accident. When a parent questions a mark, the answer sheet and remark are on the child's row, and a reopened test carries its reason for anyone to read.
For the subject teacher
For a PRT, TGT or PGT, the class test becomes something done between periods rather than on Sunday night. She sets the test from her teaching batch on her phone, enters marks section by section with one tap for absent, and photographs the answer sheets she wants to keep. Her draft survives a phone call. The Tests screen shows what she has set by date and by batch, with the marks she still owes, and Repeat test turns this Friday's test into next Friday's in one tap. She sees her own tests and nobody else's, and the Students screen on the web shows her classes built from her own tests, ready before a parent-teacher meeting.
For the class teacher
The class teacher is the person parents actually ask, and she rarely set most of the tests. With the access your school gives class teachers, she can open any child in her class on the staff app and see that child's released test marks in every subject, with their average across tests. The same released marks sit on the child's profile in Student Information. For her own subject she has the full Students screen, with groups, rank and talking points. And the monthly result no longer depends on her copying six subjects onto chart paper: the cycle's result sheet has every subject, the total and the rank, ready for the office to share.
For parents and students
Families stop depending on a photo of a mark list. When results are published, the family's Inkwelly app shows the child's marks or grade for each test, the teacher's remark, the chapters the test covered and, where the teacher attached it, the answer sheet itself. For a monthly test run as a cycle, the datesheet arrives before the papers and the results arrive as one card with every subject, the total and the percentage. A family only ever sees their own child's results, never another child's marks or the class list. Each subject's page in the app puts class test marks next to exam marks, so the picture is complete.
Who sees what, in plain words
Test marks are about children, so access follows roles rather than goodwill. By default, a teacher sees and marks only the tests they set; another teacher's marks don't appear on their screens, and no filter or link can show them. Teachers can create, edit, mark, publish, export and archive their own tests, and lock them when marking is done. The principal and vice principal see every test, run test cycles, read the result sheets and are the only roles that can unlock a locked test by default. Only the principal changes the module's settings, such as notifications, rank for students and automatic locking. Schools can adjust any of this role by role in Identity & Access Management, for example giving an exam coordinator the vice principal's oversight. Families see only their own child's published results.
Hindi and English, on the web and on the phone
The Tests module on the web works in English and Hindi, from the dashboard and the mark sheet to the result sheet and the settings, so a Hindi-medium coordinator in Varanasi reads every screen in the language she thinks in. Test names and cycle names can be typed in each language your school uses, and the portal shows each person the name in their own language. The notifications families receive are written in English and Hindi. The Inkwelly staff app and student app currently show class tests in English, with names, marks and remarks exactly as the school typed them.
Switching from a register, Excel or your current software
Most schools reading this already record weekly tests somehow: a register per teacher, an Excel sheet per class, or a marks screen inside another ERP. Class test marks are the one record that doesn't need moving. There is no import for old weekly test marks, and there doesn't need to be: last term's registers stay where they are, and the first test entered in Inkwelly starts every child's trend. What does move is the ground the tests stand on: students, classes, sections, subjects and teaching batches, which Academics and the rest of Inkwelly already use.
Migration, training and setup cost ₹0, and extracting your data from your current system, or from Excel if the vendor won't cooperate, is on us. Go-live can be the next working day, with older records moving across on their own track. A sensible start is one class's weekly test in the first week, then the next monthly test as your first test cycle. Our guide to reducing teacher paperwork with school software lists the checks worth running in any demo, and you can book a demo to run them on Inkwelly.
“A weekly test is only worth giving if someone reads the marks before the half-yearly exam does.”
What's included with Class Tests
- Eleven test types, from weekly and monthly to dictation, oral and mental maths
- Marks out of a total with a pass mark, or grades and symbols with no total
- One test for several sections or a teaching batch, tagged with its chapters and topics
- Marks entry on the staff app with a phone draft, and keyboard entry on the web
- Absent with a reason, a remark per child, and multi-page scanned answer sheets
- Publishing that tells each family the marks are ready, in English or Hindi
- Excel mark-lists, Repeat test, and edits that protect marks already entered
- Lock and unlock with a written reason, plus optional automatic locking
- Test cycles with papers for each subject teacher, a datesheet and a readiness check
- A result sheet per section with totals, percentage and rank, downloadable as Excel
- A dashboard and a Students screen with groups, ranks, talking points and export
- A family view with marks, remarks, answer sheets and one card per test cycle
Stop marking into registers nobody reads
Bring one teacher's register, your next monthly test datesheet and a real class. We'll set the test, enter the marks on a phone, publish them and build the result sheet with rank, in a live demo on your own classes.
Frequently asked
14 questionsWhich Inkwelly plan includes Class Tests, and what does it cost?
Class Tests is part of the Standard plan at ₹99 per student per year, and it is also included in Premium at ₹199 per student per year. It isn't part of Lite. Inkwelly's plans run from ₹49 to ₹199 per student per year, flat at any school size, with no enrolment slabs and no per-module upsell, and each plan includes everything in the plan below it. Examinations, with report cards and marksheets, is included in every plan.
Do class test marks go into the report card?
No, and that is deliberate. Class test marks stay in Class Tests and never change a report card, a term result or a marksheet. Term exams, the periodic tests that count on the report card and printed marksheets are handled in the Examinations module, which every Inkwelly plan includes. If a test must count towards the report card, set it up there; everything in between, the weekly test, the monthly test, the dictation and the oral, belongs in Class Tests. Released class test marks still appear on the child's profile and in the family's app, so nobody loses sight of them.
We record weekly tests in registers and Excel today. How hard is it to switch?
Not hard, because old test marks don't need to move. There is no import for past weekly test marks: last term's registers stay as they are, and the first test entered in Inkwelly starts every child's trend. What Class Tests needs is your students, classes, subjects and teaching batches, which the rest of Inkwelly already uses. Migration, training and setup cost ₹0, and extracting your data from your current system, or from Excel if the vendor won't cooperate, is on us. Go-live can be the next working day, and older records move across on their own track afterwards. You can also start with a 90-day paid pilot on your real data; if it isn't working at day 90, you get a pro-rata refund and your data back in standard formats.
Can teachers enter marks on their phone? What if the signal drops?
Yes. Teachers set tests, enter marks, mark children absent, add remarks, photograph answer sheets, publish results and lock tests from the Inkwelly staff app. Marks typed on the phone are kept on the phone as a draft while the teacher works, so a phone call, a switch to another app or a dropped signal doesn't lose them, and they reach the school when she taps save with a connection. Anything that fails to save is shown on its row so it can be fixed. The web has the same mark sheet with keyboard entry for anyone working at a computer.
Who in the school can see a teacher's tests and marks?
By default, a teacher sees only the tests they set, and can create, edit, mark, publish, export and lock them. The principal and vice principal see every test in the school, run test cycles, read the result sheets and are the only ones who can unlock a locked test; only the principal changes the module's settings. Schools can adjust any of this role by role, for example giving an exam coordinator the vice principal's oversight. Families see only their own child's published results, never another child's marks or the class list.
Will parents be told when results are published? Can it go on WhatsApp?
Yes. Publishing a test sends each child's family a notification in the Inkwelly app that the marks are ready, in English or Hindi, and tapping it opens the test. WhatsApp and SMS versions of the message exist too; they go out once your school connects its own WhatsApp Business number and SMS sender in Communications and switches them on for this message, with WhatsApp message fees billed at cost. A school that prefers to tell families itself can turn these notifications off in the Tests settings. Correcting a mark after publishing doesn't send a second message.
What happens if a teacher publishes before marking everyone?
Publishing doesn't wait for every mark, so the whole section is told their marks are ready and children without a mark find nothing yet. The staff app says how many students are still unmarked before the teacher confirms, and the safe habit is to keep a test as a draft until marking is done. Test cycles are stricter: by default they release only the papers where every child in the section is marked or absent, and hold back the rest with the reason, unless the office chooses to include them.
Can marks be changed after results are published? Can we stop that?
They can be corrected until the test is locked, which is usually what a school wants in the first few days. A teacher locks a test when marking is done; after that nobody can change its marks, answer sheets or details until someone allowed to unlock it, the principal or vice principal by default, reopens it with a written reason that stays on the test. Schools can also lock published tests automatically, anywhere from 1 to 90 days after results go out. It is off until you switch it on, and switching it on also locks older published tests within the hour, which the settings screen warns about before saving.
Can we run one monthly test across all classes with one result sheet?
Yes, as a test cycle. The principal or vice principal names the cycle, picks the classes and checks the papers, which Inkwelly works out from your teaching batches, with a date and marks for each. Papers are created for each subject teacher, the datesheet reaches families in one message per child, a board shows how much marking is left, and publishing releases the cycle with one notification per child. The result sheet has every subject, the total, the percentage and the rank within the section, and downloads as Excel.
Will students and parents see their rank?
Only if you want them to. Rank is always on the principal's result sheet and the staff screens, but the family's test cycle card shows rank only when the school switches on show rank to students in the Tests settings. It is off by default, because many schools, CBSE schools in particular, prefer not to put a rank in front of a child. Ranks are always worked out within a section, with equal scores sharing a rank.
How do oral tests, dictation and handwriting work if they have no marks?
Any test can be set to grades instead of marks. The teacher enters a grade or a symbol for each child, such as A+, a double tick or Good, and there is no total. Grade-only tests are never turned into a percentage, so they don't pull an average up or down; on a test cycle result sheet they show their grade and stay out of the total. The Excel mark-list shows the grade in place of marks.
Is Class Tests available in Hindi?
The Tests module on the web works in English and Hindi, including the dashboard, the mark sheet, test cycles, the Students screen and the settings. Test names and cycle names can be typed in each language your school uses. The notifications families receive are written in both languages and go out in the family's language or your school's default. The staff app and the student app currently show class tests in English, with names, marks and remarks as the school typed them.
Can teachers attach scanned answer sheets, and who sees them?
Yes. Each child's result can carry their answer sheet, one page or several, photographed with the staff app's camera or uploaded as images or PDFs on the web. Staff who can see the test see the sheet next to the child's mark and remark. Once results are published, the family sees their own child's answer sheet in the Inkwelly app, and never anyone else's. Sheets can be added or removed until the test is locked.
Can the principal see which teachers are actually testing and marking?
Yes. The principal and vice principal can filter the test list by teacher, and the Tests dashboard lists the tests still waiting for marks. On the phone, a Teachers screen shows who has set how many tests this session, with a chase-list of the ten tests owing the most marks. Used well, it isn't a stick for teachers; it tells the principal where marking needs a hand before the monthly result is due.
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