Qlix v2 is here: an AI teacher planner that marks the work and remembers your classes

Seven years ago I was teaching maths and quietly losing every Sunday to the same three jobs. Re-planning lessons I'd basically taught the year before. Marking a stack of exit tickets by hand. And then, this is the daft part, doing almost nothing with what that marking told me, because by the time I sat down to plan Monday it had gone clean out of my head.

Qlix started as my way out of that. Today it grows up. Qlix v2 is the biggest release we've shipped, and it goes straight at the three things that still swallow a teacher's week: planning, marking, and being able to reuse your own work instead of rebuilding it from scratch.

Three big changes. Here's what landed.

1. An AI teaching assistant that's actually met your class

There are a lot of "AI lesson planner" tools now. Most work the same way: a blank box, a topic, a draft you copy out somewhere else. Handy for a one-off. Hopeless as a way to run your actual teaching, because the thing has never met your Year 9s and forgets them the second you close the tab.

Qlix v2 flips that around. The AI lives inside your workspace, with five assistants that share one memory - a general one for admin and half-formed ideas, plus assistants that open right inside a lesson, a class, your planning timeline, and your resources. Open the lesson assistant on Monday's period 3 and it already knows the class, where you are in the scheme, and how the last lesson actually went. Ask for a starter on simultaneous equations and you're not explaining the context to it. The context is already loaded.

Like what it gives you? It drops straight onto the plan or into your library - no copy-paste, no re-uploading into a planner in another tab. Worksheets, quizzes, exit tickets, slide decks, rubrics, all generated against your real lesson rather than a generic prompt. And it keeps your students out of it: names are swapped for anonymous tokens before anything reaches the model, so the assistant can plan around a support need without ever seeing who's who.

That's the line between an AI teacher planner and a chatbot in another window. One remembers. The other starts from nothing, every Monday.

2. Automatic marking, AI marking, and insights that tell you what to teach next

This is the part I'm proudest of, because it fixes my actual Sunday-night problem.

In Qlix v2, homework, exit tickets and quizzes aren't separate gadgets bolted on the side. They're assessments you attach to a lesson activity. Students complete them on QlixGo with a short six-character code, on whatever device they've got. Online quizzes come back automatically marked. For the written work, AI-assisted marking does the first pass, so you're checking and nudging instead of starting from a blank margin at 10pm.

But the marking was never really the point. Knowing what to do about it was. Every assessment builds a Learning Record for the class - a proper evidence trail, not a dead scoreboard you screenshot and forget. You get grid and progress views, mastery against your learning objectives, and an at-risk flag for the kids drifting toward the test in trouble.

Then it closes the loop, which is the bit that matters. When you open next week's lesson, last week's evidence is already sitting in the planning panel: the objective half the class fumbled, the three students worth checking on, the retrieval practice worth running as a starter on Monday. This is assessment for learning the way it was always meant to work - formative assessment that feeds straight into the next lesson, instead of a spreadsheet you keep promising yourself you'll open.

3. Lessons you build once - activities, variants, and real reuse

The third job was the quiet time-thief: rebuilding lessons you had already made.

Qlix v2 treats a lesson as a set of activities, not a wall of text. You build in phases - starter, main, plenary - with blocks inside each one: a presentation, a worksheet, a quiz, a practical, a discussion. Every block has the right editor for the job. When you're done, the whole lesson pack exports in a single click - merged slide deck, student worksheet PDFs, the answer key kept separate, quiz links, and a print-ready plan for when someone's coming in to observe.

The reuse is the real prize, though. Save an activity to your library once, then pull it into any lesson that needs it later. Give it Support, Standard and Challenge variants so differentiation stops being three near-identical worksheets rotting in three different folders. And when you teach the same plan to two classes, link them to one master - edit it once and both update, or split one off the day a class needs its own version. Build it properly the first time, then teach it for years.

One workspace, not five open tabs

Here's the thread running through all of it. A planner that forgets, an AI that's never met your class, and a quiz app that hands back a leaderboard are three separate tabs that never speak to each other - and you're the one lugging the context between them, term after term.

Qlix v2 puts planning, AI, marking and insight in one place that remembers your teaching. That was the whole idea. It's the reason I stopped marking at the kitchen table and started building this instead.

Try the lot free for 7 days. No card, and your plans are backed up for life. If your Sundays look anything like mine used to, come and take one back.

- Alex, founder of Qlix (maths teacher, before this)