Concepts cleared, not chapters covered
Progress is reported as named concepts that have crossed the mastery bar. Eighteen of twenty two rungs clear in mathematics is a statement you can act on. "Chapter 4 done" is not.
For parents
A clear picture of what is improving, without sitting behind the chair.
A linked parent account answers the two questions worth asking: is this actually moving, and what is currently in the way. It will not show you the contents of a study session, and that restriction is the reason the account stays useful.
Weekly summaryParent view
82%82 percent masteryMathematics18 of 22 rungs
64%64 percent masteryPhysics14 of 22 rungs
Highest cost gap: vectorsCoral for 9 days. Four rungs in physics are waiting behind it.
3 rungs cleared this week19 day streak4h 20m active
No transcripts. No question by question breakdown. By design.
What you can see
Three things, chosen because you can act on all three.
A parent dashboard with forty metrics is a dashboard nobody reads twice. This one reports outcome, blocker and effort, and stops there.
The one gap that is costing the most
Weak concepts are ranked by how much they are blocking. You get the single highest cost gap, in plain language, rather than a list of eleven amber items with no priority.
Effort, measured honestly
Active minutes on questions and explanations, by day and by subject. A tab left open is not counted as study time, because a number that flatters everyone is worth nothing to you.
What you cannot see
The restrictions are the product, not a limitation we are apologising for.
A study session only produces useful signal if the student is willing to be wrong inside it, repeatedly and visibly. The moment that record becomes readable by anyone else, students start performing instead of learning, and every number on your dashboard stops meaning anything.
So the line is drawn at outcome versus process. You get the outcome in full. The process belongs to the student, and there is no setting, request or plan that changes that.
How this is enforced technicallyThe text of any doubt asked
If a student thinks a basic question might be read later, they stop asking basic questions. That is the exact behaviour that creates unclosed gaps, so this is closed by design and has no override.
Individual wrong answers
You see that a concept is coral. You do not see the eleven attempts it took, or the working behind them. The outcome is your business, the struggle is theirs.
Which questions took longest
Useful to the engine for calibrating difficulty, and corrosive as a conversation topic at dinner.
How to read the account
Four things worth knowing before your first Sunday summary.
The ladder is designed to be honest rather than encouraging, which means it can be misread as bad news when it is doing exactly what it should.
A coral rung is good news, not bad
It means a real gap has been located and named. Before NYGTLYF it was there too, invisible, quietly making the next three chapters harder. The list of coral rungs is the most valuable thing on the account.
Going backwards is progress
If the ladder position drops because a rung reopened, the engine found something slipping. That is the system working. Reacting to it as a setback teaches a student to avoid honest practice.
Compare the term, not the day
Concept mastery moves in weeks. Checking daily produces noise and pressure in equal measure. The weekly summary exists so that the daily check does not have to.
Time is the least useful number
Fifteen focused minutes on a coral rung beats two hours of comfortable revision, and the ladder will show that clearly. Judge the account by rungs cleared, not minutes logged.
One request, in plain terms: please do not use the coral list as a list of things to be disappointed about. It is the single most useful output of the entire product, and the fastest way to make it disappear is to make a student feel bad about it.
What the Family plan adds
- More than one student account, each with its own independent ladder, diagnostic and subject list.
- One linked parent view across all of them, with the same outcome only boundary applied to each.
- Separate summaries, because two children in the same house are not on the same ladder and should never be compared on one page.
- Everything on the Student plan for each account, including unlimited doubt solving and all subjects.
Setting it up
The student account comes first, and it stays theirs.
A parent account is linked to a student account, never the other way round. The student sees that the link exists, sees exactly what it exposes, and the relationship is visible on their side at all times.
- Create the student account. Class, board and subject list are set here, and the diagnostic follows immediately.
- Link a parent view. Sent to the parent email address, and always visible on the student side.
- Choose the summary day. Weekly by default. Daily is available and we quietly recommend against it.
Nothing is hidden from the studentEvery figure a parent account can see is visible to the student on their own dashboard, in the same words.
Start with one subject
You will know within a fortnight whether the ladder is telling you something new.
Set up a student account on the free tier, let the diagnostic run, and read the first weekly summary. If the highest cost gap it names is something you already knew about, we have not earned a paid plan yet.
Free tier covers one subject with a daily doubt limit. No card required.
One evening, start to finishLive
Day 1Student account created, class and board set
Day 1Diagnostic runs, ladder position established
Day 7First weekly summary, with the highest cost gap named
Week 3Rungs cleared, and the blocked ground above opening