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Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics (9708) — everything a teacher account gives you: classes, assignments and the gradebook, marking, class analytics, the teacher-only tools and the answer keys.

The site is free for everyone, and students can read all 53 chapters without an account at all. A teacher account adds a layer on top of that: put students into a class, set work, mark written answers, and see how the class is doing.

Start here

Email kingeducates@gmail.com with your name and your school email address, and I will set an account up and reply with your sign-in details. Teacher accounts are free, with no trial period and no expiry.

A note on what this is: I teach Cambridge 9708, and I built this site as a personal resource for myself and my own students. It is free, there is nothing to buy, and I am not selling anything. If it turns out to be useful to your classes too, you are very welcome to it.

Getting a teacher account

Teacher accounts cannot be self-registered. They are granted by hand, which is what keeps the answer keys and your students’ work behind a real teacher. (The official CIE mark schemes are not gated at all — anyone can read those without an account.) In practice it takes one email.

  1. Email kingeducates@gmail.com with your name and your school email address. A school address is how I tell a teacher from a student; if you do not have one, say where you teach and we will sort it out another way.
  2. I will create the account on that address and reply with a temporary password. You will be asked to set your own password the first time you sign in, and the temporary one stops working at that point.
  3. Sign in from the top right of any page. If you already have an account here, say so and I will upgrade that one instead — your password will not change, but sign out and back in once so the new permissions take effect.

You will know it worked when a My classes link appears in the top menu bar on every page.

There is no trial period and nothing expires. Once the account is a teacher account, it stays one.

What a teacher account adds

ToolWhat it is for
Teacher consoleCreate classes, hand out join codes, manage the roster, and read the class-wide analytics.
Assignments & gradebookSet work from six banks, give it a due date and an optional timer, then mark it and release the marks.
Mock exam papersAssemble a complete Paper 1–4 from the real bank, printable as a question paper and a separate answer key.
Worksheet builderPrintable MCQ worksheets and answer keys from the 4,223-question bank, or a shared link the class answers online.
AO skills drillsDrill one assessment objective at a time (AO1 knowledge · AO2 analysis · AO3 evaluation), by chapter.
Quantitative skillsTen calculation topics with randomised numbers and bilingual step-by-step solutions.
Answer keysModel answers to the guided questions on essays and data-response parts, in the marking view and as a printable sheet.
Student workRead-only access to any enrolled student's essays, data-response answers, AO drills and their analytics page.

On the home page the teacher tools are visible to everyone but greyed out with a 🔒 chip until a teacher account is signed in.

The CIE 9708 Economics home page, with the teacher-only tool cards greyed out and marked with a lock chip
Home page. The Mock exam papers, AO Skills Drills and Quantitative skills cards stay visible to students but are greyed out with a 🔒 Teacher accounts chip.

Your classes and the join code

Everything starts with a class. The class is what decides whose work you can see and who an assignment goes to. Create one in the teacher console — the My classes link in the top menu bar.

The teacher console listing the teacher's classes with their join codes
The teacher console. Each class shows its join code, the number of students, and a link into the class.
  1. Give the class a name, such as Y12 Economics 2026. A six-character join code is generated for you.
  2. Give the code to your students. They enter it on their own My analytics page — you never have to add students by hand.
  3. If the code leaks, New code regenerates it. Students who have already joined are unaffected.

The roster shows each student's name, email and join date. Every row links straight to that student's analytics, and the whole roster exports as CSV.

A class roster showing student names, emails, join dates and per-student analytics links
A class roster. Copy or regenerate the join code, export the roster as CSV, or open any student's analytics.

Setting work

Assignments are built on the gradebook page — Open gradebook from the assignments panel in the teacher console. One assignment can hold up to 200 items, and the six kinds can be mixed freely.

The assignment builder with fields for title, instructions, due date, marking basis, timer and the six item kinds
The assignment builder. Add as many items as you like from the six banks; the total marks update as you go.
Item kindWhat you pick
Chapter readingA chapter, and which of its sections to read — or the whole chapter.
MCQ setChapters (grouped by unit) and a question count. Each student can get their own draw, everyone can get the same questions, or you can hand-pick them.
Essay questionOne of the 422 past-paper essay questions, found with the search box.
Data responseOne of the 664 past-paper data-response parts.
Quantitative drillA topic and a count; the numbers can be fresh per student or the same for everyone.
AO skills drillOne of the 477 single-objective drills.

Each assignment also carries a due date and time, a marking basis (completion or correctness), an optional time limit, and a choice about the deadline: close at the deadline means nobody can start or answer after it, otherwise late work is accepted and flagged. A timed assignment cannot contain a chapter reading — the clock cannot govern a page the player does not host, so the builder refuses the pair. Set the reading as its own assignment if you want both.

Drafts and publishing

Use Save as draft to build an assignment without showing it to anyone — a draft is invisible to students until you publish it. Save and publish when you are ready.

Students see published assignments on their own My assignments page. The player opens on an explicit Start screen, so tapping the link to look at a timed assignment does not start the clock.

Seeing where everyone is

The class gradebook is a matrix — students down the side, assignments across the top. Every cell is editable: type a mark and it becomes that student's total for that assignment; clear the box and the marked total comes straight back. The per-question marks are never touched.

The class gradebook matrix with students as rows and assignments as columns
The class gradebook. Type in any cell to override that student's total; clear it to go back to the marked total.

Open a single assignment and you get a students-by-questions grid, with a glyph or a number in every cell so colour is never the only signal, a percentage column, a class mean and a CSV export. On a narrow screen it falls back to a list.

One assignment's gradebook showing per-student status and totals
One assignment, student by student — who has started, who has submitted, and what they scored.

Marking written work

Only multiple-choice questions are marked automatically, against the answer key. Everything else — essays, data-response answers, quantitative drills and AO drills — needs a mark from you in the marking view. Quantitative and AO drills have no server-checkable answer, so an item you never open scores zero.

The marking view with the official mark scheme beside the student's answer
The marking view. The final-grade override sits above the questions; the official scheme sits beside the answer.

Marks are drafts until you return them

Saving publishes nothing. A student sees their marks and comments only after you press Return marks to the class, so you can mark across several sittings and release everything at once. The one exception is the ⌘⏎ shortcut in the marking view, which returns that student as it advances.

A final grade override panel sits above the questions for work done on paper, a resit, or a late penalty. It sets the student's total for the assignment without editing any per-question mark, and clearing it restores the marked total exactly.

The teacher answer keys

Every essay, and every data-response part worth two marks or more, carries a set of guided questions — answered in order, they produce the essay. (The one-mark parts have none: there is no plan to make of a lookup.) A teacher account also sees model answers to those questions. Students never do.

The marking view with the official mark scheme, the per-objective mark boxes and a collapsed Answer key (teacher) row
In the marking view the key sits collapsed under the official scheme — the row reading Answer key (teacher). It opens on a click, for you only.

The keys appear in two places: collapsed beneath the official scheme in the marking view, and on a dedicated print sheet in the gradebook for taking a set of answers into a lesson.

The answer-key print picker in the gradebook, listing question references and how many answers each has
The print sheet is built here: tick the questions you want and press Print. The sheet itself is teacher-only, so it is not reproduced on this page.

Check them before class

These answers are drafted teaching material, not a Cambridge document. The mark scheme is the official record; where the two differ, the scheme wins. The page says the same thing on the sheet itself.

Class analytics

Open a class and, below the roster, you get the class-wide picture: overall accuracy, the weakest units, and engagement over the last seven days.

Class analytics showing accuracy, weakest units and recent engagement
Class analytics: overall accuracy, the weakest units, and who has been active in the last week.

The most useful panel is most-missed questions: the questions at least two students still get wrong on their latest attempt. Expand one and you see who chose what, against the key. It reads as a ready-made list for the next lesson.

The most-missed questions panel listing questions the class currently gets wrong
Most-missed questions. Open one to see which students chose which option, against the key.

There is also a class notes by chapter panel showing where the class is annotating and how many questions nobody has answered yet.

Following one student

Any View analytics link in the roster opens that student's full analytics page — mastery by unit, first-attempt accuracy, timed sessions, flashcard retention, quantitative skills and the questions still to review. A banner at the top makes clear whose page you are looking at.

One student's analytics page opened by a teacher, with a banner naming the student
One student's analytics, opened from the roster. The banner names who you are viewing.

Those links carry through to read-only work: you can open the essay and data-response pages and read exactly what that student wrote, without being able to change it.

If you would rather work question by question than student by student, the essay and data-response pages also have a class responses mode that expands the whole class's answers under each prompt.

The essay questions page in class mode, with class responses expandable under each prompt
Class mode on the essay page — the whole class's answers, question by question.

The teacher-only tools

These four tools are teacher-only as whole pages and have nothing to do with classes — they work whether or not you have created one.

Mock exam papers

Every paper builds in-page from a seed. Papers 1 and 3 assemble a 30-question multiple-choice paper; Papers 2 and 4 assemble a full written paper with the real exam structure — a compulsory data-response Section A, then Sections B and C each offering a choice of two. They are timed, shareable by link, and download as two separate PDFs: the question paper and the answer key.

The mock exam packager offering Papers 1 to 4
The mock packager. Pick a paper, get a seed, sit it online or download the paper and key as PDFs.

Worksheet builder

Deterministic question sets from the MCQ bank, printable as a worksheet with a separate answer key, or shareable as a link the class answers online. The set is encoded in the link, so the same link always gives the same questions.

The MCQ worksheet builder with chapter selection and question count
The worksheet builder. Pick chapters and a count; print it, or share the link for the class to answer online.

AO skills drills

One objective at a time. The auto-marked widgets — select the better answer, reorder a chain, match a term, classify, complete a link, spot the error — give instant feedback, and the first attempt is what counts for mastery. Open drills reveal the model answer only after submitting. There is also a worksheet mode: tick the drills you want, then print a worksheet or an answer key, or copy a link to project in class.

The AO skills drills page filtered by assessment objective and chapter
AO skills drills, filtered by objective and chapter, with a worksheet mode for printing a set.

Quantitative skills

Ten generators — the elasticities, costs and revenue, the multiplier, exchange rates, index numbers, labour rates, comparative advantage and terms of trade — with randomised numbers and a bilingual step-by-step solution for every question.

The quantitative skills trainer showing a randomised calculation question
The quantitative trainer. Every question has fresh numbers and a bilingual worked solution.

Class notes on the chapters

While reading, a student can select any sentence in the notes and attach a comment or a question. It appears beside the prose, anchored to the sentence they picked.

A chapter page with a class note anchored to a sentence, showing a student question and the teacher's reply
A class note anchored to a sentence, with the student anonymous to classmates and the teacher's reply below it.

Every note sits on one of three rungs, and the student chooses:

A published note carries no name: classmates see “Classmate” and an hour-rounded timestamp. You see the real name. Your own notes are always attributed to you.

A Hide class notes toggle empties the margin for teaching or projecting, and if you teach more than one class a picker in the notes panel narrows the margin to a single class.

What you can and cannot see

The line is drawn deliberately, and it is worth knowing before you introduce the site to a class.

You can see — for students in your class

  • Their MCQ, quantitative and flashcard attempts, and the analytics built from them.
  • Their essay, data-response and AO-drill answers and self-assessments.
  • Everything they submit for an assignment, and all of your marking on it.
  • Notes they shared with you, and notes published to the class.
  • Their progress through an assignment — when they started, when they submitted, and which questions they answered.

You cannot see

  • Their personal chapter notes and highlights. Those belong to the student and are not teacher-readable at all.
  • Any annotation a student has kept private — even though you are their teacher.
  • Anything at all about a student who is not on your roster.
  • Their password. Resets go to the student by email.

Students can see everything held about them, export it, or delete their account outright from their own account settings page.

Bilingual, themes and printing

Sending feedback

The site is still being built, and feedback from teachers is the most useful kind there is. Whether you have found a mistake, hit something awkward, or want a feature that is not there, please write.

These are especially worth reporting:

The same address handles teacher-account requests, including for colleagues.

This is a free, unofficial Cambridge 9708 Economics revision resource and is not affiliated with Cambridge Assessment International Education. The class, join code, student names and marks in the screenshots are demonstration data, not a real account.