What is CENTURY?
CENTURY, created in 2013 and successfully used in classrooms across the world, utilises the latest technology to help you identify gaps in learning instantly and fill those gaps with recommended learning content, while reducing your overall workload.
Accelerates learning - Intelligent personalisation improves student engagement and understanding
- Instantly identifies and plugs students’ gaps in knowledge
- Pinpoints and addresses misconceptions
- Creates a constantly adapting path with learning content tailored for each student
Reduces workload - Saves teachers hours in marking, analysis and resource creation
- 1000s of videos, slideshows and self-marking questions for Years 3-11
- Covering English, maths and science courses aligned with the English national curriculum
- Created by experienced former teachers and senior leaders
Enhances teaching - Actionable data insights support timely, targeted interventions
- Helps you instantly identify learning gaps for individual students or the whole class
- Easy-to-use dashboards decrease time spent on data entry and admin
- Enables more effective one-to-one teacher interventions
Educational Impact
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CENTURY Reviews
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Greg
Lead Teacher and English Teacher
Used CENTURY daily for 0–3 months
Jun 2023
I had a fantastic experience with Century and highly recommend it to other educators. Fay Allen, the liaison for Century, has been incredibly supportive and I am excited to continue working with her in the future. I introduced Century to my Year 7, Year 8, and Year 10 ESL classes, and the response from students was overwhelmingly positive. One of the standout features of Century is its ability to keep students engaged throughout their learning journey. Unlike other literacy platforms, Century breaks the monotony and offers fresh and engaging content that students truly enjoy. The platform’s intuitive AI plays a crucial role in differentiating instruction, which is essential in my classroom. With students of varying ability levels, it is crucial to have approaches that cater to their individual needs. Century’s AI adapts to each student’s strengths and weaknesses, providing personalized learning pathways that ensure optimal progress for every learner. I must also commend Fay Allen for her exceptional support in getting started with Century. The learning curve was brief, thanks to her assistance and guidance. Currently, Century is my favorite literacy program, and I look forward to a continued relationship with Fay and the Century team.
Greg found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ease in differentiating instruction”
- Significantly provides school data“Need a longer period”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Intuitive software = individualized instruction”
- Significantly improves attainment“Improvement in SPaG across year levels”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nicki Kelly
College Principal - Southend City College
Used CENTURY daily for 1-2 years
Nov 2022
Century has provided both the college and the learners are great platform to develop and improve English and maths skills which is individualised to each learner. For the college it enables good tracking of progress at both course and strategic level.
Nicki Kelly found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Enabled better tracking and extension work for the learners”
- Slightly provides school data“Engagement to English and maths as well as progress being made.”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“Enables plan for learning to be developed”
- Slightly improves attainment“It is evident that learners who engage thoroughly with Century do improve their grade.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Learners are able to consolidate their learning.”
Nov 2022
Century enables students to work along an individualised pathways which meets their needs and allows them to make progress whilst also providing information to teachers/staff regarding areas of strength and areas for development
Emily found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduces the need for printed or written work tailored to individual students as Century provides them with a personalised pathway”
- Moderately provides school data“Enables us to see the progress, areas of strength and areas of improvement for individual students and cohorts”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
They a perfect fit for school who want to demonstrate real outcome oriented teaching and learning
Santosh Kumar AV found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Data analytics to personalise learning and teaching”
- Significantly provides school data“Increase in overall score by 25%”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Personalised classes for future class planning”
- Moderately improves attainment“Outcome oriented teaching”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
Excellent customer service and attention to detail. Consistent SaaS updates, and educator support services, as well as a robust teaching learning platform that students enjoy using, and is enhancing their learning journey.
Georgina Dean found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“On many occasions, teachers will need to plan less differentiation for learning activities (including homework/prep), as Century Tech will cater the learning experiences on an individual student basis.”
- Significantly provides school data“Data is a key factor which supports Senior Leaders in supporting their departments to integrate century tech meaningfully across their curriculum. Data equally enables classroom teachers to identify which students are struggling with certain concepts, because they can see how often a student is visiting a particular nugget, which enables them to provide further 1:1 support with that student. Data helps schools to identify which students are engaging with Century Tech, and how we can further support their learning journey by enhancing experiences.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are more confident knowing that concepts are being taught but subject matter experts, meaning that they can maximise classroom learning time, focusing on collaborative problem-solving, rather than content consumption.”
- Slightly improves attainment“We will have more data to understand this impact in the near future.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Century Tech is built on reading and video content, meaning that it can be more memorable for students to learn material this way. Students are better equipped to share their understanding of concepts because they have experienced an audio and visual connection to it.”
Gareth Preston
Leader of Learning for KS4 - teacher of science and activities
Used CENTURY weekly for 7–12 months
Nov 2022
Excellent interactive resource. The best think i like is that it looks after itself and sets tasks depending on how the pupils answer.
Gareth Preston found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I am able to set diagnostics which enables you to identify gaps and CENTURY will then set nuggets for the students”
- Slightly provides school data“I have yet to look at this at our setting”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It will identify the GAPS the students are having and helps to put in place the right interventions”
- Significantly improves attainment“As we are a medical provision students have missed a lot of education. CENTURY enables the students to work from anywhere, which will make sure they are not missing any content”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The diagnostics and nuggets are excellent in providing the students with the up to date knowledge for the course”
Oct 2022
Very impressed - looking forward to it becoming more widely available for more departments
Doug found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Strategic planning around homework as well as independent learning.”
- Moderately provides school data“Provides usage reports that are shared with Leadership/Governors”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Creates bespoke learning based on student performance that previously would take longer using other platforms.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Awaiting analysis from our first years usage”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Impact across tracked data”
Emma Holton
Curriculum Manager - English and Maths
Used CENTURY daily for 0–3 months
Oct 2022
It has a brilliant UI for students to use and is easily accessible from all devices. The support from our account manager has been fantastic and it has been easily intergrated into our plans to improve English and maths achievement.
Emma Holton found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Students can easily access it from their own devices so teachers don't have to find extra work to suit their individual needs if they have completed classwork. Staff can easily see students levels and areas to work on and this can help guide lesson planning and supplementary work.”
- Moderately provides school data“We are just starting out on this so we are just getting round to start using data but can see that it will guide us to show starting points for our students and progress they have made. We will start using this as part of tutorials/1:1 to show student commitment and participation.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We can use data to ensure classes have students of the similar ability to enable focussed delivery.”
- Slightly improves attainment“It is too early to tell for us yet”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“We hope so but too early to tell yet although early signs are good.”
Oct 2022
Really happy with the service, product etc
Nicola Wilde found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Gaps in pupil knowledge”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It allows you to teach to fill in gaps identified on century”
- Moderately improves attainment“Pupils redoing nuggets which have been identified to improve”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Revision of exam content at GCSE”
Neal Oates
Principal
Used CENTURY monthly for 1-2 years
Oct 2022
It is not a silver bullet, however it is the best platform in its class to support teachers with workload and assessment. Plus for supporting students in personalising their learning
Neal Oates found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduced marking time and also positively impacting planning time as worked examples can be utilised within the classroom using Century nuggets”
- Moderately provides school data“Personalised data on individual students along with subject and whole school attainment”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Less time planning for particular resources and topics as all created for teachers. Marking and feedback automated with access to data helping teachers to target interventions”
- Significantly improves attainment“We have seen notable engagement across subjects especially mathematics with increased confidence within GL Progress tests within the Primary phase.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Multiple examples to be given here.”
Oct 2022
Its a really good platform. At primary level it is ideal for homework and to encourage independent learning.
Dave Wallace found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“NO marking, easy to set, good for homework.”
- Does not provide school data“N/A”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“None we use it to back up teaching at home”
- Does not improve attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Blanca Peris
Secondary Science Teacher
Used CENTURY daily for 3-4 years
Oct 2022
I use Century every day to help my Science students. Most of them do like the platform, the nuggets (microlessons) and show engagement in their learning as they are able to see quickly an improvement in their understanding.
Blanca Peris found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“I set pieces of HW and then I check scores and completion automatically done by century”
- Significantly provides school data“Century helps me giving me data for interventions so I can easily spot students who need support in Science or a stretch”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Century provides small chunks of information in video or slide format so that students can choose how to receive the information. I use it often for students to review parts of my teaching.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Century helps me to spot weaknesses in students and then I can tailor a learning strategy making it more likely for this student to improve results”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Century AI tailors a customise path therefore my students can build knowledge on those areas more relevant to them.”
Oct 2022
Century Tech is an excellent tool that saves time for teachers and can extend pupil´s learning. It does take a little time to learn how to use effectives, which for a busy teacher can be difficult to find (hence losing a point), however, once up and running it is a fantastic help which staff, students and parents love.
David Gross found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Apart from for homework, we regularly use Century Tech in maths and English. It removes the marking burden and gives us a quick and easy way to assess understand and gaps within the class. We also use it to support EAL children in English where there are grammatical holes in their knowledge. Furthermore, we use it in science as an assessment tool and as a teaching tool where scientific methodology is concerned (before conducting experiments).”
- Significantly provides school data“Century is used to quickly inform teacher assessment. Typically, we will assess each student using formative data, before then checking our thoughts with the work they complete on Century. If there is a difference, then we would take a deeper dive when making a decision on the children´s ability in that subject.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Planning for Century lessons tends to be quicker than a conventional lesson as the nugget will deliver the teaching. As the lesson progresses, it is very easy to target support in the class, so there is no need to plan "expected" support. Rather, after the first 10 minutes or so, it is easy to see where the teacher time is best spent. Likewise, the plenary is defined by the most common areas that the class struggled with, thus ensuring we make the most of our child facing teacher time.”
- Moderately improves attainment“As we are able to target support, tailor homework and encourage the children to lead their own learning using the learning pathway, Century can have a big impact on attainment. For those children that have a thirst for knowledge, it enables them to find areas of interest and study them before we teach that area in class. As data is stored, we as teachers are quickly able to see whom we need to challenge and stretch.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Whilst as teachers, we try to illustrate many ways to look at a problem / question, having Century to draw on is like having another teacher voice for the children. They are therefore better able to choose how they wish to learn and so are able to embed, further or consolidate knowledge.”
Oct 2022
Jessica Coleman found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Analysis completed for you”
- Significantly provides school data“Graphs produced for oyu”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment“Works for some children, not all”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Builds upon prior learning well”
Oct 2022
The score would have been 10, but the lack of content for KS1 makes it difficult to promote Century to teachers in that key stage. More content for KS2 would also be good, as the content available is great, would love more!
Jez Sutton found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Century is a great tool for homework, easy to set up and no marking required.”
- Significantly provides school data“It allows me to see which children understand certain concepts and enables me to predict future outcomes.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Century is a great tool fir pre-teaching and for assessment, very quick and easy.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Children's attainment has improved over the years I have used Century in my class. Century enabled children to learn at their own pace and revisit concepts they found difficult.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“I used the science units in line with lessons and the results of assessment at the end of each unit were outstanding.”
Oct 2022
An excellent piece of software, which we probably still don't know or use to its' full potential, hence the score
Stuart Ward found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The way in which the analysis supports pupil progress information and gap analysis”
- Significantly provides school data“It is used as part of our pupil progress data”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“The algo rhythms support correct starting points for the chn, after completing diagnostics”
- Moderately improves attainment“Maths Fluency”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Maths Fluency”
Shannon Connolly
Year 6 Class Teacher, SLT, Computing/Pupil Premium/MFL lead, ECT mentor
Used CENTURY weekly for 7–12 months
Oct 2022
Absolutely everything about Century is wonderful. Their support is also second to none. They are always a phone call, meeting or email away and are just fantastic.
Shannon Connolly found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Everything is marked, data is analysed, children's homework is targeted according to their needs - either made harder/easier. It is honestly revolutionary!”
- Significantly provides school data“Great data analysis tool. Really clear to see and identify gaps in the children's knowledge and plan additional targeted support for the children based on this. Children are also set additional nuggets based on their gaps. (Great!)”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Very easy to target teaching and learning to children's needs and additional support based on the gaps which Century Tech identifies.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Homework isn't too easy or too hard - it's targeted for each specific child and allows them to attain at their own level. I also like that retrieval is built in and children are constantly practising.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Great retrieval tools built in. Also targeted to individual children so is never too easy or too hard.”
Oct 2022
The children have already been highly motivated and engaged in the program
Alison Harrison found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“We use it for homework - it reduces the time teachers have to make resources, and to make them individualised and also reduces marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Individualised work enables gaps in learning to be addressed quickly, meaning that schema is developed more effectively”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Because each child's path is bespoke to them, the teacher can identify misconceptions quickly, so that can plan next steps better”
- Significantly improves attainment“We are too early in our journey with Century to evidence this”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Gaps are addressed because of the bespoke pathway”
Oct 2022
CENTURY is an excellent teaching and learning tool with a high impact on my students. They really engage with it.
Cassie found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I suggest that my staff alternate setting teacher marked and CENTURY homework, so this halve marking (certainly mine, anyway!) We use CENTURY for all cover work- it's perfect as the students can still be taught content and the teacher who is away doesn't have to worry about all the marking when they get back. We also use it to set extra intervention work for students in preparation for the clinics-again, no marking and we can tailor the clinic to their needs.”
- Slightly provides school data“As a HoD I use CENTURY to spy on independent learning that students are doing during revision periods but I don't really use it for school data.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It's a great starter to see where everyone is so that you can quickly differentiate. It's also good as part of a circus of activities. Having all that data makes lesson planning quicker.”
- Significantly improves attainment“I ran a study on the year 10 students and how they revised and the most successful in the end of year exam had used CENTURY.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The nuggets are well-written and cover everything they need to know in the specification. It's good for the students to hear different voices (teacher and CENTURY) imparting information. I would always send a student to CENTURY over a text book.”
Oct 2022
Duygu found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Able to give students personalised next step tasks”
- Moderately provides school data“Able to identify key areas for focus and also key students to have interventions with”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Oct 2022
Century Tech is just an amazing tool. It has allowed us to really close gaps and ensure that no child is being left behind. The children find it engaging and easy to use and enjoy using the videos as they can stop them at any point to process what is being said.
Melissa Taylor found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Videos are another teacher in the classroom. Immediate feedback allows teachers to see who is getting it without having to mark books themselves.”
- Moderately provides school data“Helps us see who has gaps to close and who we may need to work with more closely. This has then helped improve data.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Groups of children can be on century teach either overlearning or learning new concepts. This allows the teacher to work with smaller groups - more impactful.”
- Moderately improves attainment“KS2 results were increased from year before and ahead of national.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Children have been using century tech for homework. They come into the lesson more prepared with the appropriate knowledge.”
Oct 2022
The staff at Century have been incredible from first meetings, to integration of century to our school, to ongoing support and how best to use the tool in our SEND setting. The sheer number of courses are outstanding, and their language used is easy to understand for our learners. Nothing is too big or small for the staff to help with and hope this is the beginning of a long standing professional relationship :)
Ian Specter found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Helps with planning for newer staff who may not have resources available, and for a different way of explaining methods”
- Moderately provides school data“Helps track learner progress more organically while seeing which students may need extra assistance”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“We use it as a progress check for our learners to gauge their understanding of the curriculum. As they work through this you can see a glint in their eyes as they click more and more with the subject matter”
Oct 2022
Good training provided to teachers and pupil engagement
Milton Miltiadou found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework not having to be set by teacher”
- Moderately provides school data“Still early but believe the work pupils complete on century will improve school data”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment“Believe it will but still early”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Videos on how to complete tasks”
Oct 2022
really good and positive first impressions - but more time needed with it
Nathan Rhodes-Brandon found CENTURY:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Setting of bespoke homework tasks”
- Significantly provides school data“Effort in homework tasks; repetition of tasks”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“not much evidence as of yet”
- Slightly improves attainment“not much evidence as of yet; will see when we do language assessments”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“recall and retrieval”
Oct 2022
Easy to use
Simon found CENTURY:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“So easy to assign work that is marked”
- Moderately provides school data“Gap analysis”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Compliments lessons”
- Moderately improves attainment“Adressing the gaps in knowledge”
- Moderately builds student knowledge