I am on an ambitious quest to find a comprehensive way of tracking student progress. An at-a-glance view for the student of just their path, and a full class overview for the teacher. There is currently no holistic, coordinated, user-friendly way to achieve this. Spreadsheets by class make it a struggle to share with each student; by student makes the teacher open 20 separate spreadsheets to enter marks. Paper is fraught with risks, not least it needs pieces of card pressed over it to isolate a single student, putting staff one sneeze away from a GDPR breach. There is no consistent approach across the UK, let alone within colleges or even departments. I asked about it on mic at BETT this year and drew a blank, but several teachers made a point of catching my eye and nodding vehemently. It’s easy to see why: a clear visualisation of a student's progress throughout an entire course is currently lacking but would have massive impact. It would remove the lag between assessment, identifying knowledge gaps, and changing tack. And the dream extends further: to tracking not just academic progress but wraparound skills and tutorial topics like cybersecurity. Some courses would even benefit from adding formative work, and offline grades like mock exam results. It’s a major obstacle to overcome and won’t be easy to ensure the integration and flexibility to serve wildly different courses. But I’m itching to tackle it to fix the dilemma of all this information getting scattered and siloed. A solution is critical. This goes to the heart of teaching, learning & assessment. Customising learner journeys. Taking a snapshot of each step. Enabling people to look back and appraise the distance travelled, and then be spurred onwards.