Low stakes assessment. Low stakes for you.

A whiteboard-ready platform for Assessment for Learning and adaptive teaching, from starter to plenary, for what the class actually knows.

  • Generate or type your own
  • You review everything
  • Adapt as you teach
  • Present in seconds

Any resource, in under a minute. If it falls flat, that’s all you’ve spent.

Assessment for learning

Nothing is recorded. That is the point.

A quick check shows what the class understands right now, so you can re-teach, move on, adapt or stretch while the lesson is still running.

Nothing is marked, logged or scored against a pupil’s name. The only thing riding on a wrong answer is what you decide to do next.

Low stakes usually means low stakes for the class.

It should mean low stakes for you as well. A check that falls flat has cost you a minute, so there is no reason not to build another.

  • No pupil data, ever. Responses stay in the room.
  • You see every question before the class does.
  • Swap or rebuild a check without leaving the lesson.

What is low stakes assessment?

How it works

From your prompt to the board.

Type a topic. Watch the resource draft itself. Edit anything you want. Show it on the board, all from the same window.

Real product, real-time, single take.
Mid-lesson

You're meant to be teaching.

Halfway through the lesson you realise the activity isn't working and there's no time to build something new from scratch.

Plenary Studio drafts a replacement in under a minute. Adapted for the class actually in the room, not the class you planned for last week.

Lesson going off plan?

≈ 50 seconds
  1. 10:42

    The activity you planned — turns out they’d already nailed it.

  2. 10:42

    Generate a stretch version — same topic, but harder.

  3. 10:43

    On the board — before they look up.

Adaptive teaching

Same lesson. Adapted for all.

Good adaptive teaching keeps the whole class moving towards one goal, not down separate tracks. The lesson objective stays the same. What changes is the scaffolding, the phrasing, the level of challenge.

Plenary Studio is built for that. Write questions before the lesson or generate them mid-flow, then adapt as you read the room. Rephrase for clarity, add a scaffold, or raise the challenge. Assessment for learning, fast enough to act on.

Refine, regenerate, adapt. Same content, shaped to your class.
Activity formats

One platform, a format for every moment.

Every format offers a range of question types and levels of challenge, for different points in the lesson, and the students in front of you.

Swipe to browse every format →

Try these live in the subject showcases

Built for the whiteboard

Readable from the back of any classroom.

Cream, butter, peach, sky, mint, or dark. Default font or dyslexia-friendly. Choose what suits your class and your room.

‘As brave as a lion’ is an example of:
Metaphor
SimileCorrect
Personification
Onomatopoeia

Try any palette or font — the board updates live.

Palette
Font
Your library

Every resource you save is yours.

Save the resources you want to keep, name them, tag them by topic, subject, or class. Reopen, edit, and reuse them next lesson, next term, next year. Your library grows with the work you've chosen to keep.

Searchable by subject, topic or titleReusable across classes and termsEdit and adjust without regenerating
The founder

Built by a teacher, in a classroom.

Plenary Studio is made by a UK secondary physics teacher who uses it daily with real KS3 and KS4 classes across the full ability range, including SEND and lower-attaining groups. Every feature exists because a lesson needed it. Nothing goes live until it has survived contact with a real classroom.

About the name

"Plenary" comes from the Latin plenus meaning "complete". In UK classrooms it usually refers to the activity that closes a lesson, but the etymology points wider. Our logo is made up of three segments: start, middle, end, closing into one ring. Plenary Studio makes your lessons complete.

Our Promise

What we deliberately don’t do.

  • No pupil data

    By design, not as an afterthought. We never ask for pupil records and build nothing from them. Teachers use it; classes see it on the board.

  • No advertising

    We don’t sell your information or what you create. To run the AI features we send what you submit to our service providers only to deliver the tool. They do not train their models with your data and your uploaded resources are not stored.

  • No tracking

    No analytics, no behaviour profiling, no advertising or cross-site trackers following you around the web. The only outside services we ever touch are the ones that a feature you’re using needs, like playing a YouTube clip, or signing in.

  • Teacher in control

    Plenary Studio drafts, you decide. It doesn’t teach the lesson or replace your judgement. Every word is reviewable before it goes on the board.

Good to know

Questions, answered.

About the product

Plenary Studio is an Assessment for Learning platform for UK secondary teachers. It drafts whiteboard-ready questions and activities that check understanding at any point in a lesson, ready to present straight from the board. You review everything before presenting.

Low stakes assessment is any check on understanding that carries no consequence for the pupil. No mark in a book, no score in a tracker, nothing that follows them. Because nothing is riding on it, pupils are more willing to show you what they actually do not know, which is the information you need in order to decide what to do next. Hinge questions, mini whiteboard checks, exit tickets and quick multiple choice rounds are all low stakes assessment. Plenary Studio builds these and presents them on the board, and records nothing about any pupil.

Most new assessment ideas cost an evening to prepare, so when one falls flat it tends not to get a second go. A resource here takes under a minute to make and you review it before the class sees it, so trying something different costs you a minute rather than a free period. If it does not work you can build a different one before the end of the lesson.

No. It works at any point in the lesson, from starters and mid-lesson checks to plenaries. The point is Assessment for Learning all the way through, so you check understanding and adapt while you still have the room.

“Plenary” comes from the Latin plenus, meaning complete. In UK classrooms it usually names the activity that closes a lesson, but the root points wider. Our logo is three segments, start, middle and end, closing into one ring. Plenary Studio is about making the whole lesson complete, not just the last five minutes.

UK secondary teachers, across GCSE subjects and the full ability range, including SEND and lower-attaining groups. It is built by a practising secondary teacher who uses it daily with real KS3 and KS4 classes.

Whiteboard-ready resources like retrieval questions, multiple choice, click-to-reveal answers, keyword matching, crosswords and word searches, and more. You can generate a draft in seconds or type your own, then present it full screen, or download it as a PowerPoint slide.

Privacy, data and control

No. Plenary Studio drafts, you decide. It does not teach the lesson or replace your judgement, and every word is reviewable before it reaches the board.

Never. We do not ask for pupil records and we build nothing from them. Teachers use the tool, and classes only ever see the finished activity on the board.

No. There is no advertising, no analytics and no cross-site tracking. To power the AI features we send what you submit to our service providers only to deliver the tool. They do not train their models on your data, and your uploaded resources are not stored.

Where we're at

What we've nailed and what's still to come.

Plenary Studio is built and used in real classrooms. Most of it is solid enough to use daily, some is still being shaped. Here's the honest timeline.

Classroom Stable

Consistent, stable features.

  • The full question, puzzle & visual-builder suite
  • Generate from your slides, worksheets, or a YouTube clip
  • Present mode with five accessibility themes
  • Save, reuse & edit from your resource library
In testing

New features currently being tested.

  • Timetable, with each lesson’s resources ready to open
  • Adaptive Resource Support Builder
On the bench

Decided on, not yet built.

  • Additional adaptive tools
  • Wider PowerPoint export across resource types
  • Wider Word Document export across resource types

If something isn't on this list yet, it isn't pretending to be.

Pricing

Every tool free. AI when you want it.

Use every classroom tool on the free plan, with 10 AI resources to try and no card details. The Teacher plan adds full AI generation and refine chat, and starts with a 7 day free trial.

Free

£0

per month

No card details

  • 10 AI resources to try, no card details
  • Use every classroom tool
  • Save up to 20 resources a month
  • Present in class and export to PowerPoint and PDF

Exports carry a small Plenary Studio mark.

Teacher

£3.50

per month

billed £42 a year

  • 100 AI resources a month
  • Refine chat with up to 5 refines per resource
  • Clean exports, no watermark
  • Editable Word document exports
  • Save and export without monthly caps
  • Try it first with a 7 day free trial

School and department

£42

per teacher a year

works out at £3.50 per teacher a month

  • Everything in Teacher, for every seat
  • Invoice against a purchase order
  • Published volume discounts
  • No pupil data, ever

One yearly invoice, paid by bank transfer. The price stays the same for the whole year.

Cancel any time from Settings.

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Teach with us
and start building.

Plenary Studio is open to every UK secondary teacher. Sign up free, no card details, and build your first resource in minutes. Join the new wave of teachers bringing Plenary Studio into their classroom.

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We’d love to hear from teachers, heads of department, and anyone curious about where this is going.

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