Monday's worksheet,
made on Sunday.¶

Nine small tools for secondary computing teachers (KS3, GCSE, A-level): mark a mock, make a Parsons problem, a trace table or a seeded binary sheet with its key. They run on your own Mac, print in a plain house style, and take no pupil data.

Install See what it makes ↓

Two lines in Terminal, once you have uv

uv tool install --python 3.12 git+https://github.com/ColePoppleton/Staffroom@main
staffroom

No uv yet? Its installer is one more line, on the Install page; open a new Terminal window after it. No GitHub account is needed. Needs macOS 14 or later.

Parsons problem made from year9.py Trace table made from year9.py Binary worksheet, seed 1

Stored, on this Mac only

Your settings, an index of the files (and their text) in your resources folder, run counts per tool and a log of file paths, under ~/.config/staffroom/; lesson copies and outputs in folders you choose. Every path is listed.

Never stored

A name, candidate number or row of marks from a marks file: identifier columns are dropped on load and only class-level aggregates are saved. No log holds a value from your files. What the filter catches.

Check it yourself

No account and no server: the only network call asks GitHub which release is newest, when you press Check again and at most once a day when Staffroom opens (untick it in Settings › Updates). Removing every trace is deleting a short list of folders. Which ones.

What comes out¶

Real first pages, made from the example files in the repository. Each sheet comes with its answer key as a separate file, in PDF and Word.

Worksheet Seeded binary, logic, file-size and compression questions; the seed is in the header, so the same sheet comes back.

Quiz One Markdown question bank: a printed do-now (shown), Kahoot or Forms.

Parsons A working program cut into numbered blocks, with distractors and an answer grid.

Trace A blank trace table from a sandboxed run; the completed one is the key.

Bugs One controlled error per copy; the key says whether each crashes, prints the wrong thing or runs the same.

Fade Worked examples with more of the program blanked out each time.

// Average of five test scores
scores = [45, 62, 58, 71, 39]
total = 0
count = 0
for score_index = 0 to scores.length - 1
    score = scores[score_index]
    total = total + score
    count = count + 1
next score_index
average = total / count
if average >= 50 then
    print("Well done")
else
    print("Keep going")
endif
print("Average:", average)

Pseudocode Python into OCR Exam Reference Language (shown) or AQA pseudocode, and back, with a could-not-translate list.

Marks Grades, the distribution and the questions to reteach from a mock. Only class-level results are saved.

Classroom and the Resource Library make no new pages: they open, copy and find the files you already have. Every tool has a command-line twin (staff <tool> ...), so anything you can click you can script. Outputs says where every file goes and what it is called; the Glossary explains the words the panels use.

Monday's worksheet, made on Sunday.¶

What comes out¶

Monday's worksheet,
made on Sunday.¶