ChatGPT Can Now Do Real School Work — I Tested It on a Year 10 Class
ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6, explained for teachers and school leaders. I test ChatGPT Work on real school tasks — marking, cohort analysis, parent packs, planning — so you can see what is genuinely useful and where the risks sit.
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Last week ChatGPT stopped just answering questions and started finishing the job: documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, even working web apps. Here is what that actually means for schools, five ways educators can use it, and the settings to check before you connect a school account.
I test these tools on real school work rather than demos, so this is the honest version: what is genuinely useful, and where the risks sit.
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Chapters:
0:00 Two updates, and why Work is the real story
0:38 GPT-5.6 explained: Sol, Terra and Luna
1:05 Max, Ultra and the higher intelligence setting
1:47 What ChatGPT Work actually is
2:25 The desktop app and its new layout
4:17 The dataset: Year 10 Biology, codes not names
5:06 Projects are just folders on your desktop
7:16 Analysing the mock for gaps
8:11 Spreadsheet, cohort summary and skill gaps
10:10 Student feedback, parent packs and a leadership summary
12:18 A three-week teaching response pack
13:47 Reteaching plan and scheme of work
14:29 Browsing for reliable curriculum guidance
15:32 Building an interactive site with Sites
17:28 Self-marking follow-up quizzes
18:10 Saving the workflow as a skill
18:58 The leadership slide deck
19:22 Is it actually any good?
22:08 What's next, and where to find more
