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Ending a Session and Submitting It

When a session is running, End Session sits in the top right. Clicking it wraps the session up, records it as finished, and takes you to a summary of how students did.

Before You End

Ending is final. Spark asks you to confirm, and the message is worth reading:

Are you sure you want to end this session? All students will be removed from the session. Once ended, the session cannot be rejoined.

That last part is the one that catches people. There’s no reopening a session after you’ve ended it, so only use this button when you’re genuinely done.

Stepping away mid-session is a different thing, and it isn’t free either. Navigating away asks you to confirm, then removes students from the session and puts it on standby. Coming back, you’ll find a Rejoin Session button rather than the session as you left it.

Ending the session also sets its status to Finished, which means Spark treats the session as having happened with students in attendance. You won’t be asked for a reason.

The Session Ended Screen

Once you confirm, you land on a screen headed Session Ended. The main action is Note Observations, front and center as a blue button with a soft pulse so it’s the obvious next step.

Note Observations. This is your prompt to record strengths, challenges, and notes for each student while the session is fresh. You can do it later from your schedule, but here is easiest. See Adding Observations After a Session.

How students did on the lesson. A table lists each student against the lesson with one of three results:

  • Mastered
  • Progressing
  • Area of Need

If students have submitted all their work and some didn’t master the lesson, a note above the table names those students and flags that they still need to work on this lesson. It’s a heads-up on where each student stands, not a prompt to reteach on the spot. The note doesn’t appear if work is still outstanding.

If the Results Table Is Empty

The table only fills in once students have submitted their work. If they didn’t get far enough, or the session was mostly discussion, you’ll see a note that there are no results to show. That’s expected and doesn’t mean anything went wrong.

Sessions You Never Started

Ending a session is for sessions you actually taught. If a session came and went without happening, or Spark can’t tell whether it did, that’s a different flow. See Confirming Whether a Session Happened.