The learning platform behind the framework

What is OnTrack?

OnTrack is the learning platform built for the OnTrack Education Framework. It makes student-centred, feedback-rich learning practical at scale—giving students agency while helping staff maintain clear and transparent standards.

Clear pathways

Understand what success looks like and what to do next.

Actionable feedback

Revise, improve, and demonstrate mastery over time.

Trusted evidence

Make learning visible while maintaining clear standards.

For students

A clear pathway, with room to learn

Students work through purposeful learning tasks aligned with clear outcomes and grade standards. They submit work as they learn, receive feedback from staff, and respond by revising or extending their work. This creates an ongoing learning cycle, with feedback arriving while students can still act on it.

Choose a pathway

Students can select a target grade and see the tasks needed to achieve it.

Learn from feedback

Work can be revised and resubmitted until it demonstrates the required standard.

See progress clearly

Personal dashboards, task planners, and progress visualisations make learning visible.

The OnTrack student dashboard showing tasks and progress

“I really like that you can work according to your grade preference, unlike other units where you submit a heavy weight grade assessment and waiting ages to get results to see how far you have come along”

“[I liked that the unit had a] straightforward structure and giving chances for improvement and better understanding of the tasks or the concepts via the feedback cycles”

"OnTrack is a great website, and has a 'self-led' grading system where results are not determined by confounding factors, but the exact amount of effort and time that a student wishes to dedicate"

For staff

Meaningful support, made manageable

OnTrack helps teaching teams provide timely, consistent support across an entire unit. Staff can identify work requiring attention, maintain ongoing feedback conversations, and see individual and cohort progress at a glance.

Support students earlier

Progress visualisations and direct communication help staff identify and engage students who may need additional support.

Focus on feedback

Granular task statuses show staff exactly what needs attention.

Coordinate delivery

Unit leads can oversee content, schedules, moderation, and teaching activity in one place.

“The platform and the pedagogy behind inform a very close student-educator relationship, constant communication and exchange on the learning journey”

“Students gain responsibility and autonomy in own work, everything is very transparent”

“I don't see how we could run the same level of student feedback with any other system”

Platform capabilities

Designed around the learning journey

OnTrack brings together the capabilities needed to guide each student, sustain meaningful feedback conversations, build trusted evidence of learning, and coordinate support across a teaching team.

Guide each student’s pathway

Give students a clear view of where they are going, what they need to complete, and what to do next.

  • Student-selected target grades
  • Tasks presented according to each student’s target
  • Personalised task planning and progress visualisations
  • Automated progress emails suggesting appropriate next steps

Sustain feedback conversations

Keep students and staff in an ongoing conversation about learning, revision, and improvement.

  • Task statuses that make each stage of the feedback cycle visible
  • Ongoing comment threads between staff and students
  • Direct access to feedback from the student dashboard
  • Richly formatted feedback using Markdown
  • Text and audio feedback with optional attachments
  • Notifications when new feedback or comments are available

Build trusted evidence of learning

Capture how students’ work develops and bring trusted evidence of achievement together.

  • Submission of student work
  • Complete submission and revision history
  • Automated submission checks through Overseer
  • Integrated similarity checking using JPlag and Turnitin
  • Automated portfolio compilation

Coordinate support at scale

Help staff respond consistently while giving unit leads visibility across the cohort.

  • Staff inbox showing work that requires attention
  • Individual and cohort progress dashboards
  • Unit-wide visibility of student engagement
  • Built-in feedback moderation

Connect with institutional systems

OnTrack fits in with established university systems.

  • LMS integration
  • Single sign-on using institutional accounts
  • Automatic rollover between teaching periods