Currently, Reflections are only available for the following Kognity subjects - IB DP Biology, Chemistry, and Physics FE2025, IB DP Business Management FE2024, IB DP Environmental Systems and Societies FE2026 and IB DP Psychology FE2027.
What are Reflections?
Reflections provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their learning. They encourage students to return to the subtopic's guiding questions, consider what they've learned, and write down their thoughts.
Reflections are an excellent assessment tool for gauging students' development and engagement with the material. As a teacher, you can use the Reflections submitted by your students as an additional tool to assess their conceptual understanding of the course.
Where can I find Reflections?
Reflection prompts are placed at the end of each lesson to help close the learning loop. You can view your students’ responses in two places:
Student submissions tab
Open the Reflection page in the book and go to the Student submissions tab. Here you’ll find a consolidated view of each student’s response, along with any teacher feedback, flags, and private notes.Learn more about the Student submissions tab.
Book assignments
If you’ve included a Reflection in a book assignment, you can also view responses from the assignment details page.
Tip: To see at a glance which students have completed a Reflection, go to Insights > Textbook tab. Clicking a checkmark takes you straight to the Student submissions tab for that page.
How can I use Reflections?
We recommend that as students finish a lesson, you assign the Reflection section to them in a book assignment (learn how to create a book assignment here). You can then review the reflections submitted by your students via the assignment details page of the book assignment or in the Insights tab. You may choose to provide feedback to individual students, which can be done right on the platform.
If you want to control when students get access to the Reflection section, you can always hide the section (click here to learn how to hide or show content) from them until the time is right. When assigning the section as a book assignment, the section will automatically be shown to students.
Need Further Assistance?
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