PRODUCT UPDATE
Introducing Adapt.
Every class has students with disability or additional learning needs. Adapt gives you the confidence to adjust assessments to each student, record the adjustments you made, and report their progress fairly.
Timothy Starkey
PE teacher and founder of Huddl · 5 min read · October 2026
Every PE teacher knows the moment. You’re halfway through an assessment lesson and you reach a student who needs a little more support to be assessed fairly. Maybe it’s a demonstration before they start, a peer running beside them, or a shorter distance. At my school, some of our students follow visual instructions on a chart that the teacher points to. You make the adjustment, because that’s good teaching. Then you open the gradebook and there’s nowhere to record any of it.
So the grade ends up telling half the story. Either the student is graded against benchmarks that weren’t designed with their needs in mind, or they get a generous mark that doesn’t reflect what actually happened. Neither helps the student, their parents and carers, or the next teacher who picks up the class.
Adapt is our answer to that. It’s built into Huddl rather than bolted on, and it works the same way whether you’re assessing with Skill Grader or Manual mode.
One switch, everywhere
Adapt is turned on from a student’s profile, in its own Adapt tab. Once it’s on, Skill Grader, Manual mode and the gradebook all take it into account. You don’t have to remember to do anything differently on the day. The adjustments you’ve set are applied automatically at the start of each assessment, and you can change them on the spot if the lesson goes another way.
The Adapt tab. Choose how results are shown and record the student’s usual adjustments, all in one place.
Three ways to show a result
The biggest decision is how a student’s results are shown. A year level grade isn’t always the fairest way to show a student’s progress, so Adapt gives you three options, and you can change them at any time.
Stages are worked out from the metric scores Skill Grader already produces. A score from 0 to 49% is Emerging, 50 to 69% is Developing, 70 to 84% is Consolidating and 85% or above is Achieved. The student still gets clear, specific feedback on each part of the skill, without being ranked against the rest of the class.
Small steps are for students who are still building the pieces of a skill. Instead of filming, you tick what the student showed and record how much support they needed, from full support through to doing it consistently on their own.
Two results, two different students. On the left, a running result shown as Stages with three metrics hidden. On the right, a Small steps result with the support level recorded.
Adjustments, written down properly
Under the Disability Standards for Education 2005, schools make reasonable adjustments so students with disability can take part in learning and assessment on the same basis as their peers. In PE that happens every lesson, but the adjustments rarely get recorded anywhere useful. Adapt includes a library of common adjustments, sorted into groups like instructions and communication, equipment, environment, task, support, time and pacing, and sensory and regulation. You pick the ones a student usually needs, add your own, and Huddl keeps a history of what was actually used in each assessment.
That history matters more than it sounds. When a parent or carer asks how their child went, or a new teacher takes over the class, you can show exactly what support was in place and when. It also helps when your school records adjustments for the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD). Every grade comes with the context behind it.
Measured the same, shown differently
One thing we were careful about. Skill Grader still measures every metric for every student, because that’s how the algorithm works and it keeps the data honest. What Adapt changes is what you see. If a student can only perform part of a skill reliably, you can hide the metrics that don’t apply to them, so their result focuses on what they can actually work on next.
Right there in the gradebook
Students with Adapt on are marked in the gradebook, so anyone reading it understands the context. Stages show as a stage and Small steps show as the number of steps shown, so you can scan the whole class at a glance without anyone’s progress getting lost in a column of letters.
The class gradebook. Students with Adapt on are marked with a dot, and their results sit alongside everyone else’s.
Goals that move
Each student with Adapt on also gets a goals board. You set personal goals, like following a two-step instruction or joining the warm-up without prompting, and move them through Emerging, Developing, Consolidating and Achieved as the student progresses. It’s simple and visual, and it gives you something concrete to talk about at parent meetings and student support meetings.
Inclusive assessment isn’t about making things easier. It’s about giving every student a fair way to show what they can do, and being clear about the support that helped them get there. That’s what Adapt is for, and I can’t wait for you to try it.
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