Everything you need to use Wake Mark.Book.Ap — setting up your classes, marking a set of work, producing a report a parent will understand, and keeping a term of records safe.
You can read this before you buy anything. Nothing here needs an account.
This is a mark book. It holds your classes, your pupils, and a mark for every piece of work you set — and it turns those marks into a report you can hand to a parent.
It lives on your own phone. Not on a school computer, not on ours. That is the whole design, and it decides most of what follows.
You type the details of a piece of work once — the date, what it was, what it was marked out of — and then you simply tap a mark for each child in turn. You do not fill in a form for every pupil. That difference is what makes it usable in the ten minutes between lessons, rather than a job you take home and never do.
It does not write a judgement of a child. It will work out an average, a grade, a position in the class and whether marks are rising or falling — but the sentence a parent reads about their child is yours. An app does not know a child.
It also does not teach anything, and no pupil ever opens it. If you want something a child uses, that is the five learning apps on the same website.
The first time you open it, it asks four things: your school, your name, the term and the academic year.
These are not paperwork for its own sake — they print at the top of every report you produce, so you type them once instead of once per child. You can change any of them later in Settings.
It works in a browser, but it is nicer as an icon. On an Android phone, open the browser menu and choose Add to Home screen. On an iPhone, tap the Share button and choose Add to Home Screen. After that it opens like any other app, and it works with no internet at all.
A class holds pupils. Each class has one or more subjects, and each subject holds the pieces of work you set. So Basic 4 might have Mathematics, English Language and Science, each with its own work and its own marks, over the same register of children.
Tap Pupils, then either add names one at a time, or tap Paste a whole list
and paste your register in — one name per line. Numbering like 1. at the start
of a line is thrown away for you.
The mark book tidies the list for you: a heading row (No., Surname, Other names) is left out, and if it says which column is the surname, that column goes first; serial numbers, index numbers and an M/F column are dropped; two name columns become Surname, Other names; and a pupil already on the register is not added a second time, so pasting the same list twice does no harm. Look down the register afterwards: anything odd can be put right with ✏️.
Enter names as Boateng, Ama Serwaa — family name first, then the rest.
With the surname always first, putting the register in alphabetical order is putting it in order of surname. Nothing has to guess which word is the family name — and guessing would be wrong often enough to matter, because Ghanaian names do not all keep the family name in the same place. A child filed under the wrong name is a report a parent cannot find.
Commas are never used to separate one pupil from another, precisely because the names contain them. One name per line.
Choose A → Z, Z → A, or as you typed. This is a real order, not just how it looks: the order you mark in, the register, the report list and the class summary are all the same one, and a pupil added in week six drops into their proper place rather than sitting on the end.
Tap + Mark a piece of work and fill in the details once:
| Date of the work | Today by default. Change it if you are entering last week's book. |
|---|---|
| What was it? | “Fractions test”, “Homework 4”. This appears on the report, so write what a parent would recognise. |
| Type of work | Classwork, homework, test, exam, project, or a score from one of the Wake learning apps. |
| Marked out of | 10, 20, 50 — whatever you marked it out of. |
| How much it counts | Normal, double, triple, or not counted at all. |
Then tap Start marking. You get one pupil at a time, a big keypad, and two buttons. Tap the mark, tap Save & next. That is the whole loop.
The .5 key is there because teachers give half marks. 7.5 out of 10 is a mark, not a rounding error.
Tap Not submitted rather than entering a nought.
A child who did not hand something in is not a child who scored nothing, and the difference is not a technicality — a nought drags an average down and tells a parent their child failed, when what happened is that a book stayed in a bag.
So work not submitted is kept out of the average altogether and counted separately. The report says, in words, how many pieces were not handed in. If it is two or more, the report raises it on its own, because that is worth a conversation.
Under the keypad there is a comment box. Anything you write there prints beside that mark on that child's report. You can leave it empty, and you can come back and add it later without touching the mark.
An exam usually counts for more than a homework. How much it counts is what makes a term average fair rather than flat — a child who did well in one exam and moderately in ten homeworks should not come out the same as the reverse.
Tap Finish for now. Nothing is lost. When you come back to that piece of work it starts at the first pupil you have not marked yet, not back at the top of the register.
Everything can be corrected, and correcting one thing never disturbs anything else.
Tap the piece of work. You get its own page: what the work was, and the whole register with every mark beside a name. Tap the one pupil, put the mark right, and you are handed straight back. Nobody else is touched, and you do not walk through the class again.
When you are correcting a mark, the old one is shown and the first key you press replaces it. A teacher changing 9 to 17 types 1 then 7 and means seventeen, not nine hundred and seventeen. Use the backspace key if you only want to change one digit.
Same place — tap the work, tap the pupil. The comment box is there beside the mark, and saving without touching the mark changes nothing but the comment. A 💬 beside a name means a comment is already written, so you can see at a glance who you have written about.
In Pupils, tap the name itself. Correct it and their marks follow them — you never have to remove a child and add them again, which would lose everything they had done.
A subject can be renamed or removed; a class can be renamed or removed. Removing warns you first and says exactly what goes with it. A class must always keep at least one subject.
If your pupils practise on the Wake learning apps, their scores can come into the mark book without any typing. On the class page, tap 📥 Marks from the Wake apps.
The first time, say which pupil each child is; after that the mark book remembers. Each app becomes one entry a week: the mark is the pupil's average score that week, and the number of rounds is written as a comment. Bringing the same marks in again only brings them up to date — it never adds a second entry.
These entries do not count towards the average until you give them a weight (open the entry, then Change these details), because practice on a phone is not an examination. Nothing is sent to us: the marks travel only on the same device, or in a message the family chooses to send.
A paper comes in through the same door — 📥 Marks from the Wake apps — but it is treated as what it is. Open the finished paper in the paper maker and tap 📒 Marks to my mark book; or, if both apps are on the same device, just tap Look on this device here and the paper is waiting.
A paper becomes one entry, named after the paper, out of that paper's own total, on the day you set it: a fact drill as classwork, a quiz as a test, an examination paper as an exam. Unlike practice, these do count towards the average, at the weight that kind of work normally carries — because you set the paper and you marked it. Change the weight like any other entry if you want to.
Pupils who wrote on real paper simply have no mark yet: the entry shows them as left to mark, and you type their marks in as usual. Bringing the same paper in again corrects the marks rather than making a second entry, so you can bring it in before you have finished marking the writing and again afterwards.
Tap 📄 Report on a pupil, then choose three things: which pupil, which subject (or every subject), and which period — all the work in the book, the last 30 days, the last 90 days, or between two dates you pick.
For a child’s whole term in one report, tap 📚 One pupil, all subjects instead. It begins with a short table of every subject — its average, grade and, if you have it switched on, the child’s position — and an overall average, which is the average of the subject averages, so every subject counts the same. Each subject then follows in full.
Tap Make the report. For each subject it shows:
This is on because Ghanaian schools expect it. If you would rather a parent saw only their own child, turn it off in Settings — it disappears from reports and from the class summary, and nothing else changes.
At the bottom is a box for your own words, and a printed line for your signature and the parent's. What you write there is kept — against that pupil and that subject. Start it today, finish it tomorrow; it will still be there, and it comes back whenever you make that report again.
Two buttons sit under every report.
One tap hands the report to whatever your phone shares with — WhatsApp, Messages, email. The words are already written out for you. The parent reads it in the chat: nothing to download, nothing to open, and almost no data used.
It sends words, not the printed sheet, on purpose. A parent may be on a phone that will not open a PDF at all, and on data they pay for by the megabyte.
This is the one place where a single tap can do real harm. A report names a child, their marks and their position. In a class WhatsApp group, every parent would read one child's results.
The same goes for the class summary, which lists every pupil: send that to your head teacher, or keep it for yourself — never to parents.
The printed sheet is the formal record — it is the one with the signature lines for you and for the parent. On a phone, “print” usually offers Save as PDF, which gives you a file you can keep or attach.
Tap Whole class and choose a subject. You get one sheet with:
That last one is the sheet's real job: it tells you what to teach again.
On the class page, tap Check and list defaulters. Choose the subject (or all subjects), the kind of work — classwork, homework, tests, exams, projects, papers you set in Wake Read.Drill.Quiz.Exam.Ap, or all of them — and one piece of work, or every piece of that kind. Tap List the defaulters.
You can print the list or send it as a message. It names pupils, so send it to your head teacher or a colleague, never to a parents’ group.
Ask the teacher to open the mark book (or to send you the two sheets below). For each class and subject:
The teacher can tap 💬 Send this summary and 💬 Send this list to you on WhatsApp, privately, or print them, so you need not hold their phone.
What it can and cannot tell you. It shows how much work was set and marked, and how the pupils did. It does not show how well the lessons were taught, and a class’s marks depend on the class as well as the teacher. Use it to start a conversation, beside the exercise books and a lesson observation, never as a verdict on its own.
In Settings, pick the scale your curriculum uses. Four are built in:
| Wake default | A–F, with plain words — a sensible default for a school that follows none of the others. |
|---|---|
| WASSCE | A1 to F9, as used in senior high school. |
| IGCSE | A* to G, plus U. |
| Ghanaian university | The 4.0 GPA bands, A through E/F. |
Choosing one fills in the boundaries. Edit any line and it becomes “Your own”, so you can start from WASSCE, move a single boundary to match your school, and keep the rest.
Because they are not a percentage. A BECE grade is a national ranking — grade 1 is roughly the top few per cent of candidates in the whole country, not a mark of 90. Applied to one class it would label a child who scored 75% a “grade 9, fail” for being bottom of a strong class, and that is worse than useless on a report to a parent.
What that grade is really reaching for is where a child stands among others — and this app shows that directly, as position in the class.
If your school uses its own percentage bands for internal BECE practice reports, they can be added as a fifth scale. That needs your school's real numbers.
This holds named children's marks. That deserves saying plainly:
There is no account, no sign-in, and no copy of your marks anywhere else. We cannot see them. No school computer has them. They are in this app, on this phone.
The other side of that promise is the important one: if you lose the phone, nobody else has a copy either. So:
Do it at the end of every half term, and the app will nudge you if it has been a while.
In Settings, tap Restore a backup and choose the file. Restoring adds: a class you already have is only replaced if the file's copy has more work in it, so bringing an old file in can never quietly wipe a term of marking. It is also how you move your records to a new phone.
You can set a four-figure code in Settings, asked for whenever the app opens. It stops someone picking your phone up in a staff room and reading a class's marks. It is honest about what it is — a lock on a door, not a safe. Anyone determined, with your unlocked phone and time, could get past it.
| Free trial | A whole term. One class and one subject. No card needed. |
|---|---|
| One teacher | GH₵99 for the academic year. All your classes and subjects, on up to 3 of your own devices. |
| A whole school | GH₵699 for the academic year. Every teacher on the staff. |
The trial is a term rather than a few days on purpose: a mark book only proves itself when the first reports come out at the end of term. A week of it would show you nothing.
It is charged yearly rather than once, because every academic year is a fresh set of classes, and because keeping it working and improving does not stop.
The app goes read-only. Every mark, every report and every backup stays exactly where it is — you can still open them, still print a report, still send one to a parent, still save a backup. The only thing refused is new work going in, until you renew.
Those records are yours and your school's. Locking a teacher out of a term of their own marking to collect a renewal is not something this app will do.
Pay by mobile money, card or bank transfer, through Paystack. A receipt is emailed to you — keep it. It carries a link that puts your subscription back if you change phone, lose it, or clear your browsing history.
If your school paid for you, you will be given an activation code instead. Type it into the box on the subscription screen. It needs internet once, and then works offline.
Your subscription travels; your marks do not. The receipt link brings your plan onto another device, but the marks you typed stay on the phone you typed them into. Moving those is what Save a backup and Restore a backup are for.
| “It will not let me add a class or a subject” | The free trial covers one class and one subject. The teacher plan covers all of them. Nothing you have entered is affected. |
|---|---|
| “It will not take a new mark” | Your subscription has ended. Everything you have is still there and still readable — renew and marking starts again exactly where it was. |
| “I cannot find where to change one pupil's mark” | Tap the piece of work, then tap that pupil's name. Not Go through the whole class — that walks the register. |
| “The report is empty” | That pupil has no marked work in the period you chose. Try a wider period, or another subject. |
| “It says no internet” | Marking and reports need no internet at all. Only buying and activation codes do. |
| “I have a new phone” | Save a backup on the old one and email it to yourself; restore it on the new one; then open the link in your receipt email on the new phone to bring your subscription across. |
Anything else, write to wakelearningapps@gmail.com — a person reads it. Tell us what phone you are using and what you saw on the screen; that is usually enough to work it out.
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