Welcome to your Fraley Tutors student portal — everything you need for your tutoring sessions lives here. This guide covers every feature in detail. Click any section below to expand it.
If you have a question that isn’t answered here, use the Q&A section to ask your tutor directly.
If you don’t have an account yet, click “Create an account” on the login page to register. You’ll need to provide:
Once registered, you can sign in straight away.
The hub is your starting point. It has four cards:
The portal is fully mobile-friendly — you can sign in, view lessons, submit homework (taking the photo straight from your camera), and ask Q&A questions on a phone or tablet exactly the same as on a laptop. Add the portal URL to your home screen for one-tap access.
The My Learning page has two tabs: Lessons and Curriculum. The Lessons tab is shown by default.
Each lesson your tutor logs appears as a card, with the most recent at the top. Cards are collapsed by default — click any lesson to expand it and see the full details.
If your tutor staged exam questions for the lesson, you’ll see a thumbnail grid of question images at the bottom of the card. These are colour-coded by your submission status:
Click any question thumbnail to open a full-screen view of the question image. If you’ve submitted an answer, clicking a submitted thumbnail shows your grading feedback.
If a homework assignment was created from the lesson, you’ll see a summary showing how many questions are complete, how many are outstanding, and a link to view the full assignment on the My Assignments page. If all questions are marked correct, a green “Complete” badge appears instead.
The Curriculum tab (second tab on the My Learning page) shows your full syllabus organised by subject, exam board, topic, and sub-topic. It gives you a visual map of what you’ve covered and what’s left.
Any sub-topic without a green badge hasn’t been covered in a lesson yet. Use this to spot revision gaps and discuss priorities with your tutor. Topics are listed in syllabus order, so you can see at a glance how far through each section you are.
My Assignments shows all homework your tutor has set. Each assignment contains a set of past-paper exam questions for you to attempt, along with a due date and any notes from your tutor.
Assignments are grouped into three sections:
Each assignment card shows the assignment title, due date, the number of questions, any tutor notes, and links to lesson resources if your tutor attached them.
Inside each assignment, questions are shown as thumbnail cards. Each card displays the question image and a status indicator:
For questions you’ve already submitted, click “View hint” (or “View feedback” for correct answers) to see:
If your answer wasn’t quite right, don’t worry! The question will appear in a “Have another go” section on your assignment. Read the hint, think about what to change, and resubmit. You can try as many times as you like — even partial working helps, because the grader will give you a more specific hint based on what you’ve written. The goal is to learn from each attempt until you’ve mastered the question.
If you’re stuck on a question, click the “Ask for help” button on the assignment card. This opens the Q&A form pre-linked to that assignment, so your tutor knows exactly which questions you need help with. You can even select the specific question you’re stuck on from a dropdown, and the question image will be attached to your message automatically.
When you click “Submit selected questions” from an assignment, you’re taken to the submission form. Here you provide your answers for each question.
At the top, confirm your name and email address. These are used to match your submission to your account and to email you the results.
For each question you selected, you’ll see the question image and two tabs:
x^2 + 3x - 1, sqrt(16), 1/2. For text answers, write normally. If a question has multiple parts, separate them with a semicolon ;.Some exam questions have multiple parts (e.g. Q5a, Q5b, Q5c). These are grouped into a single card with checkboxes for each part. Tick the parts you’ve answered.
If you’ve done the working for several different questions on the same page (or across the same few pages), you don’t need to crop and re-upload separately for each one. At the top of the submission form, tick “One photo for several questions”. A shared upload box appears — upload your photo (or multiple pages) once, then tick the questions and parts that photo covers. The grader figures out which answer goes with which question.
This is the easiest workflow when you’ve sat down and done a whole assignment in one go on paper. Typed-answer questions are unaffected — you can mix shared-photo questions with typed answers in the same submission.
Once you click “Submit Homework”, you’ll see a confirmation screen with a receipt listing the questions submitted. Your answers are graded automatically — results are typically emailed to you within seconds. You can also see results on the assignment card in the portal.
Q&A lets you send questions to your tutor at any time — between lessons, about homework, or anything you’re unsure about. Your tutor will be notified by email and will reply in the portal. You’ll also receive an email when they respond.
Click the Σ Symbols button to open a keyboard with 20 common maths and science symbols: ×, ÷, ±, √, ², ³, π, θ, α, β, Δ, ∞, ≤, ≥, ≠, ≈, Σ, ∫, ∈, °. Click any symbol to insert it into your message at the cursor position.
For more complex notation, use text shortcuts: write fractions as 3/4, powers as x^2, and square roots as sqrt(9).
When you use “Ask for help” from an assignment card, the Q&A form is pre-linked to that assignment. You’ll see a banner showing which assignment is linked, and a dropdown to pick the specific question you need help with. Selecting a question attaches its image to your message so your tutor can see exactly what you’re working on.
All your past questions are listed on the Q&A page, newest first. Each post shows your original question, any images you attached, and your tutor’s reply when they respond. Tutor responses can also include images and maths notation.
The “Post anonymously” checkbox is unticked by default, so your name will be visible to your tutor and they will receive an email about your question. Tick it if you’d prefer to hide your identity — when you post anonymously your tutor sees the question as “Anonymous student” and no tutor email is sent, but an admin is still notified so your question won’t be missed.
You’ll receive email notifications for key events so you don’t need to keep checking the portal. Emails are sent to the address you registered with.
If something looks wrong, doesn’t load, or you think a feature is missing, please tell us — the platform is actively developed and your feedback drives what gets fixed and built next.
On every portal page there is a small 🐛 Report Issue button in the bottom-right corner. Click it, choose whether it’s a bug, a feature request, a question, or other, and describe what you saw. You can attach screenshots if it helps explain the problem.
Your report goes straight to the admin team. We’ll see the page you were on and your account, so you don’t need to repeat that detail in the description.
On the sign-in page, enter your email and click Forgot password?. If your email is registered with the portal, we’ll send a reset link to that address. The sender is noreply@ft-hw-checker.firebaseapp.com — check your spam folder if it doesn’t arrive within a couple of minutes. If you see “No account found with that email,” the address you entered isn’t registered — contact your tutor.
This can happen on slow connections. Try refreshing the page. If it persists, a “Retry” button will appear — click it to reload the data. If the problem continues, try clearing your browser cache or using a different browser.
Lessons and assignments are created by your tutor. If one is missing, ask your tutor to check whether it was logged. You can use Q&A to do this.
Your subjects were set when you registered, but they can be updated at any time by your tutor or an admin. If you need a change, let your tutor know.
The auto-grader is highly accurate but not perfect. If you believe your answer was correct, your tutor will review flagged submissions. You can also use Q&A to let your tutor know you disagree with the grading, and they can override it manually.
The curriculum tab only shows subjects that are registered to your account and that have curriculum data in the system. If you don’t see a subject, ask your tutor or admin to check your subject registrations.
Make sure your image is a JPG or PNG file and under 15 MB. If you’re taking a photo on your phone, the default camera format should work fine. Very large images may take a few seconds to upload on slow connections.