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Spark for Instructors

The reference for everything you do in Spark.

Start with a walk through your whole teaching day, then use the reference sections for the detail on any one step.

Start with your day Common tasks

Your day in Spark

The whole loop, in order

Before students arriveStart your daySign in and your whole day is already on the Dashboard.Read your scheduleWho and when on the left, what needs you on the right.Check what’s assignedSpark already picked the lesson or assessment. You check it.Join the sessionOne button from your Dashboard, near start time.The sessionTeach and launch workNothing reaches a student’s screen until you launch it.End the sessionFinal, and it hands you a summary of how students did.Wrap upRecord observationsTwo minutes while it’s fresh. Editable all week.Clear your action itemsEverything Spark is waiting on, in one place.

New to Spark? Walk through the whole day step by step - each step links to an interactive demo of the real screen.

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Your Dashboard

Your daily schedule, the Up Next banner, starting sessions, and adding observations.

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My Students

How students get assigned to you, reading the roster, and sharing students with other Instructors.

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Groups

Creating groups, renaming them, and managing membership.

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Sessions

Assigning lessons, in-session tools, and submitting a completed session.

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Assessments

Pre-assessments, post-assessments, and reading the results.

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Reports

The Growth Report and Progress Reports for your assigned students.

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New here?

Spark is the Braintrust tutoring platform, licensed to your school so your team runs the sessions using Braintrust’s curriculum and lesson plans. Your Braintrust contact walked you through Spark on your onboarding call; this site is where you come back when you forget a step, hit something unexpected, or want to look up exactly how a feature works.

The Spark platform at a glance

What’s coming

Spark is evolving. In future updates, the platform will also serve as a progress monitoring hub - districts will be able to add their own assessment questions on top of Braintrust’s curriculum and analytics. This site will update as those features ship.