Success Criteria Prompt Generator
Generates a subject-neutral 'I can…' success-criteria framing prompt — adapt it to your own topic for a quick, pupil-facing measure of what today's lesson should achieve.
What this generator does
Draws a success criterion stem — the 'what a good one looks like' half of an objective. Success criteria are what let a student self-assess, and they are the half most often skipped because writing them takes longer than writing the objective did.
What you'll get
This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 30 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:
- I can explain this in my own words, not just repeat what I was told.
- I can answer a question about this without checking my notes first.
- I can check my own answer and say whether I trust it.
- I can explain why this method works, not only how to run it.
- I can point to the part of the task I found hardest.
- I can present this so a reader outside the class would follow it.
A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 30, without repeating until the list runs out. Original authoring for Generate Random — general lesson-planning framing prompts, subject-neutral.. Last reviewed 2026-09-03.
How to use this tool
- Press generate for a prompt.
- Adapt it to your topic, or generate again.
Common use cases
- Lesson-planning starting points
- Pupil self-assessment prompts
- Trainee-teacher planning practice
Randomness and fairness
Stems are drawn uniformly with the browser's cryptographic random number generator; the subject content is yours to fill in.
For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.
Practical tips
- Write them as things a student can check, not things a teacher can judge.
- Three criteria. More than three and nobody uses them.