A clear teaching notes to help a student improve.
Clear teaching notes turn every piece of marking into a learning opportunity: understanding the why and the how, revisiting mistakes at one's own pace, and making lasting progress.
Five sections, always the same.
The structure does not vary from one exercise to another: this is what allows a student to know where to look.
What the exercise asked
A brief recap of the instructions, so the teaching notes can be read without the original question to hand.
The overall approach
The big picture before the detail: where to start, and why that order.
The key steps, in order
The reasoning step by step, with the methodological points that make the difference between a correct answer and one arrived at never by chance.
Common mistakes
What students typically get wrong on this type of exercise — the section students read first.
Key takeaways
A short conclusion, reusable as a revision card.
They draw solely on your instructions and your solution. They do not introduce a method you have not taught, and they do not invent any content absent from the solution.
What it provides, and what it saves you.
The same document serves two entirely unrelated needs.
The student knows what to redo
A numerical grade says where a student stands, not what to work on. An annotated solution turns a result into a course of action — and it remains available after class, when the student returns to it.
You do not write it eighty times
The teaching notes are produced once for the exercise, not once per submission. You review them, rewrite them if they do not sound like you, and they serve the whole class.
It exports
As a PDF, to hand out in class or attach to a message. The student has access to the same export from their own space.
When they are released, and by whom.
The teaching notes are drafted on the exercise, before any assessment even exists — so you can prepare them well in advance. The assessment takes its own copy, which you remain free to modify for that specific exam. They become visible to the student only when you approve their submission: never before, and never without you.