FairWork Student
For student teams and educators

Group work,
made provably fair.

You know the group project where one person does 80% of the work. FairWork balances tasks by real effort, flags imbalance early, and gives everyone proof of what they did.

Built at Monash. Free for small teams. No credit card. Coordinators start here.

FairWork — Assignment 2
Fairness score
94
Fair split
Maya
28%
Jordan
25%
Alex
25%
Sam
23%

Live thresholds from the real engine: over 35% of team effort = warning, over 50% = critical.

Effort-based
not just task counts
One click
to rebalance
Slack-native
weekly digest
Audit-ready
contribution log

The problem

Every group project has one

It isn't a people problem. It's a visibility problem — nobody can see the split until it's already unfair, and by then the only tool left is an argument.

  • The 80% person

    One teammate quietly ends up doing most of the work — and nobody can prove it until it's too late to fix.

  • The ghost

    Replies once a week, claims a task, never touches it. The rest of the team absorbs the load in silence.

  • The awkward peer review

    End-of-semester peer marking turns into diplomacy, guesswork, and grudges — because there was never a shared record.

How it works

Three steps to a split nobody can dispute

Report draft8 pts
Data analysis7 pts
Prototype9 pts
01

Add tasks with effort points

Points capture real effort — not just task counts — so fairness is measurable from day one.

26%
21%
23%
19%
02

Auto-allocate fairly

The engine splits tasks by effort and capacity, and flags anyone above a 35% share before it becomes a problem.

Fair split maintained
Contribution logExport ↓
03

Track, rebalance, prove it

Everyone sees the same live workload bars — and exports a clear record of who did what at the end.

Not a screenshot

Move one task. Watch it become fair.

This is the allocation engine itself, running in your browser. Take a task off Priya and the overload flag clears — same maths your team would be using.

Workload · Sprint 3 — move tasks, watch fairness respond
Unfair split detected
Priya40%
20 ptsover capacity
Jordan20%
10 pts
Alex18%
9 pts
Sam22%
11 pts
Tap or drag a task to move it. Same math the product runs: warning above 35% share, critical above 50%.
Slack app

Runs where your team already talks

Add tasks, check the split, and approve rebalances without opening another tab. A Monday digest keeps everyone honest.

/task add/workload/rebalance/overloaded
# team-fit3170
Krishi 9:02 AM
For educators

See struggling teams before week 10

A supervision dashboard across every team in your unit: workload balance, activity, and overload flags — plus accreditation evidence of teamwork assessment in one export.

  • Aggregate-only by default — designed for intervention, not surveillance.
  • Hosted in Australia (AWS Sydney), full audit log.
Book a walkthrough
FIT3170 — 14 teams
Team 03balanced
Team 071 member over capacity
Team 11critical imbalance
Team 12balanced

Before you ask

Questions, answered

What are effort points?+

A simple 1–100 estimate of how much work a task really is. Fairness is computed over points, not task counts — so "design the whole system" never equals "book a room".

Do my teammates all need accounts?+

Members need a free account to claim tasks and appear in workload. Small teams are free — no credit card at any point.

What do educators see?+

Aggregate signals by default: workload balance, activity, overload flags per team. It's designed for early intervention and accreditation evidence, not surveillance.

How does the Slack app work?+

Link a channel to a project once (a team owner approves it on the web), then /task, /workload and /rebalance work right in the channel, plus a Monday digest.

Where is my data stored?+

In Australia (AWS Sydney, ap-southeast-2), encrypted at rest. Every core change is written to an audit log.

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