For schools
School report comments for Canberra schools
ACT School Reports helps Canberra teachers draft report comments aligned to the Australian Curriculum and BSSS courses. Free report-writing tips and badges.
What ACT School Reports does
ACT School Reports is a report-writing workspace for ACT teachers. It turns a teacher's notes into a draft comment for school reports, covering K-10.
ACT schools report against the Australian Curriculum to Year 10, and senior students study BSSS-accredited courses. Comments should use the language of the standard or course being reported.
For teachers
Enter a student code, the achievement level and a few notes. ACT School Reports drafts a comment in Australian Curriculum language that you edit and approve before pasting it into ACT Education Directorate Reporting System.
For principals and leaders
Comments across a year group share a consistent structure and tone, while every word still goes through the class teacher. Each teacher uses their own account, so there is nothing to install or integrate.
Why schools use it
What changes for staff writing school reports.
Written in your curriculum's language
Drafts follow ACARA / BSSS expectations and the A-E and descriptive scales.
Teacher judgement stays in charge
Teachers set the level and the focus, and review, edit or regenerate every comment.
Inclusive by default
Includes EAL/D support for diverse learners and support for students on an ILP, without putting diagnoses in the comment.
More than school reports
The same workspace drafts parent emails, lesson ideas and differentiated tasks.
Privacy and student data
ACT School Reports does not store personal student information. Teachers use codes or nicknames instead of names, and only de-identified workspace data is kept. Workspace data is encrypted at rest and never sold. To draft a comment, only de-identified inputs are sent to our AI provider, OpenAI. Read the privacy policy for the details.
Free guide
6 tips for writing better school reports
Free to share with your staff, no sign-up needed.
1. Match the course language in Years 11 and 12
For BSSS courses, use the course’s own achievement descriptors so the comment and the grade tell the same story.
2. Lead with something specific
Open with one thing the student did well this period, described precisely enough that a parent knows it was written about their child.
3. One next step, not five
End with a single, achievable next step. A school report with one clear goal is more useful at home than a list of weaknesses.
4. Describe the work, not the person
Write "checks calculations before handing work in" rather than "is careless". Behaviour can change, but labels stick.
5. Keep diagnoses out of the comment
Describe the adjustments that help and the progress made. Support classifications and diagnoses belong in the ILP, not in the school report.
6. Read it aloud before you submit
If a sentence sounds like a template when spoken, the family will read it that way too. Swap one generic phrase for a real example.
Link to this guide at https://actschoolreports.com.au/for-schools#report-writing-tips. More in our report-writing best practices.
Questions from schools
ACT School Reports is for ACT teachers who write school reports for students in K-10. It drafts comments in Australian Curriculum language, which the teacher then reviews and edits.
No personal student information is stored. Teachers use codes or nicknames (for example A17 or Blue-3) instead of real names, and only teacher-created, de-identified workspace data is kept. Workspace data is encrypted at rest and never sold. To draft a comment, only de-identified inputs (the code or nickname, achievement level and teacher notes) are sent to OpenAI.
No. The teacher chooses the achievement level, adds their own observations and approves every comment. Your principal can treat it the same way as a comment bank: a drafting aid, with the professional judgement left to the teacher.
Teachers copy approved comments and paste them into ACT Education Directorate Reporting System or whichever reporting system the school uses. No student records are pulled from or sent to that system.
Yes. Each teacher creates their own account and buys a token pack, so staff can start without a school-wide contract. Tokens do not expire, so they carry over to the next reporting period.
Yes. Use the text link or badge on this page. There is no tracking code and no requirement to link back, and you are welcome to link to the free report-writing tips instead.
Link to us
Add ACT School Reports to your school website
Copy a snippet into your staff resources page or newsletter. The links are plain, followed links with no tracking code.
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- ACT School Reports
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- Free school report writing tips
Try it before your next reporting period
Create an account, choose a token pack and draft your first comments. Questions about a whole-staff rollout? Get in touch.
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