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What to teach next
The panel on your student list that ranks the topics your students are finding hardest right now, and names anyone who has gone quiet.
What it is ranking
Every topic your students have practised in the last 60 days, ranked by how they are going — worst first. Each row reads as a sentence rather than a bare number:
| The topic and subject | What to consider teaching. |
|---|---|
| "30 answered by 3 students" | The bit that matters most. Thirty questions across three students is a gap in your teaching group; thirty questions from one student is one child who needs a hand. Those are completely different lessons, and a percentage alone cannot tell them apart. |
| The bar and percentage | How the group is going overall on that topic, using the same wording as everywhere else in Strivli — needs a little focus, strong, or nothing at all in between. |
A topic your students worked hard on in the spring and fixed should not still be sitting at the top of this list in the autumn. Only topics somebody has actually touched recently are considered, so the list stays a description of where they are now rather than a memory of where they were.
The figures themselves are all-time for those topics — so a topic that has been in play for months carries its whole history, not just the last few weeks.
Why it sometimes says nothing
The panel is hidden entirely unless it has something true to say. It needs:
- At least three students. "Across your students" computed from two children is really a statement about one of them, which is a different and much less reliable claim.
- At least twelve answers in a topic before that topic is ranked at all. A percentage built on four answers is noise, and sending you to reteach something on that basis would waste a lesson.
- Recent practice. If nobody has practised in two months, there is no "right now" to describe.
This is deliberate throughout Strivli: the product would rather say nothing than show you a shaky number you might act on.
Who has gone quiet
Underneath the topics, anyone who has not practised in 14 days is named — not counted. "Three students are inactive" prompts nothing; a name prompts a text message. Click a name to open that student.
The same marker appears on the student list itself, beside the child's last practice date, so you can see it while scanning the roster.
A week off at half term is normal and should not be flagged as a problem. Fourteen days is long enough that a genuine drop-off has happened, and it is the same threshold Strivli uses everywhere else it mentions a quiet spell — including the group summary and the gentle note in the parent portal.
How this differs from the group summary
Groups have their own summary, which answers the same question for one group of students. The difference:
| What to teach next | Your whole roster. No setup. Needs 3 students. |
|---|---|
| A group's summary | One group you built. Needs 4 students in it. Useful when you teach genuinely separate classes and their gaps differ. |
Both use the same 60-day rule and the same "needs a little focus" wording, so they will never disagree with each other about which topics are in play.
What it never shows
No per-student breakdown, no ranking of children against each other, and nothing a parent can see. This panel exists on the tutor console only. If you have signed up for your own child rather than as a tutor, it does not appear at all — a side-by-side comparison of siblings is exactly what the parent side of Strivli is built to make impossible.
To see what one child is actually getting wrong, open them and use the topic view on their own page.