One step at a time
Students see the next step and its date, not the whole mountain.
Built by a teacher.
Askel is designed by a UK secondary Computer Science teacher who runs coursework every year.
Each year the same things happen. Students write up their logs at the end, from memory. Help given in a corridor is never written down. In May, the paperwork lands all at once.
Then AI tools, like ChatGPT, made it easy to pass off someone else’s writing as your own, and the exam rules changed. Teachers now sign to say they took all reasonable steps, and wrote down any help they gave.
Askel is the app I wanted: a dated record of each step, kept as the project happens. It’s built around the rules you actually work to.
Principles
What we hold to.
Facts, not scores
Teachers see when and how the work grew. Askel never guesses whether AI wrote something.
Students own their work
The work stays where the school keeps it. Students can download their own signed timeline.
Only the data we need
Links, dates, short notes and sign-offs. No keystrokes, no screens, no work done elsewhere.
Works for every student
Text size, colours, fonts, spacing and a reading ruler, for every student who needs them.
Talk to the person who builds it.
Founding schools get a direct line to the maker, and a say in what comes next.