Feature list

1. Practice

Practice modes

• Standard session ✓. The default daily workout: your daily goal in cards (15 by default, or the number your teacher sets), using the adaptive picker: skipped and wrong cards that are due first, then unseen cards, then cards due for review that you previously got right. Completing a standard session (or any other regular session) advances your daily streak.
• Speed Round ✓. 15 cards, 8-second timer per card. Fail to answer before the clock runs out and the card is marked wrong. Sharpens recall under exam conditions.
• Marathon ✓. 50 cards in one sitting, using the same adaptive picker as the standard session. Designed as a pre-exam grinder when you want a sustained revision block.
• Mark it ✓ Beta. Examiner mode: read a model answer and decide how many marks it would earn under the mark scheme. Available for subjects that include extended-response cards. Builds deeper understanding of assessment criteria than recall alone.
• Drill weak cards ✓. A single pass (up to 15 cards) of cards you have answered incorrectly recently. Use the “Review wrong” button at the end of the session to go again on anything you missed. Great for targeted remediation on specific gaps.
• Topic drill ✓. Restricts a session to a single topic of your choice. Accessible from the mode picker. Useful when a teacher has just covered a new topic in class.
• Study mode ✓. A read-through with no quiz: prompt, answer, and source shown together so you can absorb the material before being tested. A gentle on-ramp for new content: start here, then switch to a drill on the same topic.

Adaptive card picker

Educator uses a variant of the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithm to decide which card to show next. Cards you answer incorrectly are scheduled for a shorter interval; cards you nail quickly earn longer gaps before they reappear. Within a session, skipped and wrong cards come first, then unseen material, then cards due for review that you previously got right, so new content is never buried behind endless revision of familiar cards.

XP (experience points)

• Base rate: 10 XP per correct card in any session.
• Boss-battle events: during a themed event, each correct card earns 10 + the event's XP bonus.
• Daily login bonus: +50 XP the first time you open Educator each day.
• XP is per-subject. Each subject has its own independent XP total: Food, History, Geography, Science, D&T, Religious Studies, Computer Science, Business Studies, PE Theory, Drama, Sociology, Psychology, and Music are all tracked separately, and the Class and School leaderboards rank within one subject. The exceptions are account-wide: your rank label uses XP across every subject, and for individual accounts the Global leaderboard adds up XP across subjects and the League leaderboard ranks on a single league XP counter.
• Cosmetic gates: card skins unlock at 0 / 500 / 1,500 / 4,000 / 10,000 XP within each subject for school accounts (individual accounts use XP across every subject combined); avatars and app themes have their own XP gates. Cosmetics are earned by practice, never purchased.

Streaks & daily goal

• Daily streak ✓. Increments each day you complete any regular session: Standard, Speed Round, Marathon, Mark it, Drill weak cards, Topic drills, and Study mode all count. Teacher-hosted live sessions do not.
• Daily goal ✓. Defaults to 15 cards; set by the teacher in class settings (5/10/15/20/30). It sets the length of a Standard session (the number shown on the mode picker and dashboard); Speed Round, drills and the other modes keep their own card counts. The streak does not check it either: any completed session keeps the streak going.
• Streak freezes. Spending a freeze protects your streak on a day you miss, one freeze per missed day. If you miss more days than you hold freezes, the streak starts again at day 1 and you keep the freezes you held. Freezes are earned (every 7-day streak milestone, and the first completion of each homework assignment) and held up to a cap of 5. There is no unlimited supply on any account. Pro individuals, individuals on the 7-day trial, and all school students earn freezes (capped at 5); only free individual accounts whose trial has ended can no longer earn them.
• Streak-saver nudge. Opt in to web push notifications and, if you have an active streak but haven't practised by the evening, Educator sends a single gentle reminder (“Keep it going”). It only fires when your streak is genuinely at risk, never a pressure-framed “you're about to lose your streak” alarm. Enable push from your profile; on iPhone you first add Educator to your Home Screen.

Question of the day

The dashboard shows a Question of the day: one free card with a “Reveal answer” button. It carries no XP and doesn't count toward your streak; it's a low-pressure daily prompt to keep the subject ticking over. The same question surfaces for everyone in a class on a given day (scoped to the topics and board the class is covering), so it doubles as a shared classroom talking point. A new question appears each day.

2. Learn

The Learn section is a browsable fact library drawn from the same source material used to author the cards. Think of it as a structured set of revision notes you can read before drilling, or return to when a card answer leaves you wanting more context.

• Fact browser ✓. Every key fact is listed by topic and subtopic. Pick a topic from the subject's topic grid to open all of its facts on one page, grouped into subtopic sections.
• Topic overviews ✓. Where available, each subtopic opens with a short overview paragraph that sets the scene before listing the discrete facts beneath it.
• Read before you drill. The recommended workflow is to read the relevant facts on /learn, then switch to a Topic drill session on the same subtopic. Retrieval after initial reading is the fastest way to move new material into long-term memory.

Revise hub (no account needed)

/revise is the public, free-to-read version of the card bank. It needs no sign-up and no login, so a student can use it on a shared or school-locked device and a teacher can share a link with a class before anyone has an account.

• Subject index ✓. Every Live and Beta subject at GCSE and KS3, each with its topic count and question count.
• Subject page ✓. Every topic in that subject, with the number of questions, the number of subtopics, and the exam boards that assess it.
• Topic page ✓. What the topic covers (each subtopic with its question count), the key facts for that topic, and a handful of sample questions with the answers marked. Sibling topics are linked at the foot of the page, and a “Practise all N questions free” button leads to sign-up for the full spaced-repetition set.
• Key terms glossary ✓. For most subjects (Business Studies, Computer Science, D&T, Drama, Food, Geography, History, PE Theory, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, and Sociology, at both GCSE and KS3) there is a glossary page listing terms and definitions grouped by topic, with a link from each topic heading into that topic's revision page.

3. Leaderboards & leagues

Leaderboard tabs

• Class leaderboard 🏫. Ranks every student in a class by XP for the current week. School students only; real names are never shown outside the school context. Teachers and HoDs see it on /leaderboard (Class tab), using the class picker to choose which class to show.
• School leaderboard 🏫. All active students across every class at the same school, ranked by XP. Gives a whole-school view of engagement.
• Global leaderboard ✓. Individual accounts only, identified by chosen username (never real name). Shows the top individual learners on Educator. Free to view your rank; Pro adds position framing (the rows above and below you, and the +XP to the rank above).
• League leaderboard ✓. Ranks individual accounts (free and Pro) within their current league tier, so you are always competing against people at a similar level.

League tier system ✓

Leagues are exclusive to individual accounts (not available to school students). There are 25 standings spanning Iron IV through to Champion, grouped into Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Champion. Your tier is derived from your lifetime league XP. You promote immediately when you cross a threshold, with no waiting for a monthly reset. There is no relegation: once you climb, you stay.

During the early growth phase, placeholder seed accounts fill the tiers so the leaderboard is never empty. A disclosure note on the leaderboard page explains this. Seeds retire as real users fill each tier.

4. Profile & cosmetics

For school accounts, each subject has its own independent identity system: unlocking a new chef avatar in Food does not affect your History scholar. For individual accounts, avatar and skin unlocks are driven by XP across every subject combined, so progress in one subject carries over to another. Cosmetics are gated by XP so they feel earned, not purchased.

Avatars

• Food (GCSE & KS3): chef emoji characters across multiple skin tones and genders.
• History (GCSE & KS3): scholar emoji characters across multiple skin tones and genders.
• Geography (GCSE & KS3): climber emoji (🧗) with skin-tone and gender variants (12 combinations).
• All other subjects (Science, RS, D&T, Business, Computer Science, Drama, PE Theory, Sociology, Psychology, Music) each have their own character set following the same skin-tone and gender-inclusive pattern.

Rank labels

Every subject has subject-flavoured rank names that replace the generic tier numbers. For example: Food goes from Apprentice → Junior Cook → Cook → Sous Chef → Head Chef → Master Chef; History goes from Apprentice Scholar → Scholar → Historian → Analyst → Senior Historian → Master Historian; Geography goes from Trainee Explorer → … → Master Geographer. Rank is displayed on your profile, the leaderboard, and the public profile card.

Card skins

Unlockable visual themes for your trading card (the profile card on /me and your shareable card). They do not change how practice questions look. Higher XP gates unlock progressively more distinctive skin designs, earned through practice: per-subject XP for school accounts, XP across every subject for individual accounts.

Mastery stats

• Your profile shows a breakdown of cards by mastery level across the whole subject and by individual topic.
• Mastery levels: Unseen → Seen → Familiar → Proficient → Mastered. Each level requires progressively more correct answers at increasing spacing intervals. See the spaced repetition guide for exact thresholds.
• Session history shows every session you have completed, the cards covered, and your score for that session.

Predicted grade band

Once you have seen enough cards in a subject, your profile shows a live predicted grade (Foundation 1–5 or Higher 4–9), weighted 70% mastery and 30% accuracy and updating as you practise. It is framed as the next grade up to aim for, not a verdict. Teachers see the same prediction on each student's detail page.

Achievement badges

Milestone badges (many with bronze, silver, and gold tiers) for streaks, marathons, perfect sessions, per-subject mastery, and revising across several subjects. They appear on your profile and public card, earned purely from what you do in the app.

Event medals

Themed events and boss battles award collectible medals. Equip one as a title badge shown next to your name on the leaderboard. Boss-battle events also pay bonus XP per correct card while they run.

Public profile

Every student has a shareable trading card at /u/[id], showing their name, avatar, current rank, and equipped event medal. XP totals, league tier, and other comparative stats are deliberately left off the card, so ranked comparison stays on the leaderboard. For an individual account the name is the chosen username, never a real name, and any signed-in user can open the card. A school student's card shows their real name, so it opens only for signed-in users at the same school (and Educator admins); anyone else gets Not found.

5. Teacher tools 🔑

All features in this section require a teacher or head of department role within a school account.

Class management

• Create classes and set the subject, exam board, class name, and year group. For GCSE Science, also pick a route (Combined, a single separate science, or Triple). Foundation / Higher tier is configured in class settings after creation.
• Generate a class code. Share it with students to let them self-enrol. No IT admin required.
• Optionally narrow the class's scope with the topic-and-subtopic tree: tick whole topics or expand them to tick the exact subtopics you are currently teaching, so students only see those cards. Switching board or Science route re-scopes it.
• Add students individually or via CSV bulk import. Students can belong to multiple classes across different subjects under a single login.

Class accuracy by topic

• Every topic in the class subject is shown with a colour-coded accuracy bar: green (≥80%), brand pink (50–79%), or red (<50%).
• Click any topic to drill into per-card class stats: accuracy per card and the most common wrong answers, useful for identifying specific misconceptions.
• An optional scheme-of-work editor lets you assign a month range per topic; each topic then shows a timing pill: Currently teaching, Covered (with the month), or the future date range.

Live sessions

• Teacher creates a live session from the class page, choosing topic(s) and a card count (5 to 50). Cards come from the class's own board, Science route and topic or subtopic filter.
• Students join from their own dashboard with a single tap. No code to type in class.
• Teacher sees a live leaderboard updating in real time as students answer. Competitive signals are teacher-facing only; students see only their own score and progress.
• Supports multi-topic sessions and mixed-spec sessions.
• A simplified live runner: multiple choice and true/false are tapped; recall, cloze and calculation are typed. Match-pairs, scaffold and Mark it cards are not dealt live.

Homework

• Set a homework assignment scoped to one or more topics or subtopics, with a due date. Every student gets the same fixed set of questions. Homework can't be set on a paused (unlicensed or expired) subject.
• Students see the assignment on their dashboard and can complete it at any time.
• First completion of each homework assignment grants the student +1 streak freeze as an intrinsic reward for completing tasks between lessons.
• Teacher can see completion rates per assignment from the class page.

Student detail page

• Drill into any individual student to see their mastery breakdown by topic, full session history, streak, and XP trend.
• Useful for targeted conversations: “You’ve not touched Weimar Germany in two weeks. Let’s revisit that before the assessment.”

Printable packs

• Class pack. A single print document with an A4 wall poster, the cards the class is most struggling with, and the join code, ready to put up or hand out.
• Per-student revision pack. A printable set of an individual's most-recently-missed cards, grouped by topic, for a paper revision session. Both print to PDF straight from the browser.

6. School admin & Head of Department

The head_of_department role adds school-wide visibility on top of all teacher permissions.

• School-wide analytics: see engagement and mastery data across every class and every teacher in the school, not just your own classes.
• SLT one-page report: a printable A4 whole-school snapshot (class and student counts, students active this week, the mastery trend, and a per-class table of students, weekly activity and 30-day accuracy) for a leadership meeting or governors' pack.
• Card → spec-point alignment: every card mapped to its exact section of each board's published specification, per board, printable to PDF for an SLT or MAT procurement pack. We're not aware of another revision tool that publishes a per-card spec map.
• Class archiving: archive classes that are no longer active (e.g. after exams). Archived classes drop out of the default Class page view but all session history and homework records are preserved. Only HoDs and admins can archive; class owners cannot self-archive, preventing accidental data loss.
• Multi-subject licensing: the school's licensed subjects are managed at the school level. Creating the first class in a subject starts that subject's four-week trial automatically (pilot schools excepted). Pricing tiers (all +VAT, per academic year): Department (1 subject) £400/yr; each additional subject £350/yr; Whole-school (all subjects) £2,000/yr; MAT (3+ schools): 25% off Whole-school per school, contact us.
• KS3 bundled free: KS3 is included at no extra cost with the matching GCSE licence at every school tier: Food GCSE includes Food KS3, Geography GCSE includes Geography KS3, and so on.

7. Individual accounts

Individual accounts are for learners who are not joining through a school: home learners, private candidates, or students who want to revise beyond their school subscription.

Free

Up to 5 sessions per day across all subjects. All card types and practice modes available within the session cap. Access to the Learn fact browser. The League and Global leaderboards (plus Class and school leaderboards if also enrolled in a school class).

Pro ★

£50/year or £6/month (cancel any time). Unlimited sessions per day. Keeps earning streak freezes after the trial ends (capped at 5, like every account), whereas free accounts can no longer earn them once the trial is over. Position-relative framing on the Global leaderboard (see the rows above and below you and the +XP to the rank above, not just the top 10). The board itself, like the League leaderboard, is open to every individual account. Early access to new subjects. (Cosmetics are earned by XP, the same for every account. Pro doesn't shortcut them.)

Billing

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Payment failure

If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries automatically. After repeated failures the subscription is cancelled and the account reverts to the Free tier.

My subjects

Curate which subjects appear in your header subject switcher from the My subjects panel on your profile (/me): toggle a Key Stage and tick exactly the subjects you study, so the switcher shows only yours plus a “Manage subjects” link. Each ticked GCSE subject carries an Exam board select in the same panel: individual accounts start on Eduqas wherever the subject offers it (Psychology starts on all boards) and change board per subject, with “All boards” to remove the filter. It applies from your next session. For GCSE Science, a Science-route picker on the same page sets Combined, a single separate science, or Triple.

8. Card types

Educator uses eight question formats. The type of card you see in any session reflects the composition of the card bank for your subject. The picker selects by review status (wrong, overdue, unseen), not by card type. Card types are not filtered or unlocked based on proficiency; variety comes from how the bank is authored.

Recall

Type the answer from memory. The answer is short, typically a name, date, term, or phrase (usually just a few words). Accepted answers include common alternative spellings and phrasings, so you are not penalised for British vs American spelling variants.

Multiple choice

Choose the correct answer from four options. Distractors are deliberately plausible (the kind of answer a struggling student might write) rather than obvious red herrings. In History, MCQ answers can be full explanatory sentences to reflect how the exam assesses contextual understanding.

Match pairs

Tap a term on the left, then its definition on the right, to connect the pair (or causes to effects, dates to events). Tap a paired item again to unmake it. Typically 4 pairs per card, tap-only with no dragging. Good for vocabulary-dense topics like Science terminology or Geography key terms.

True / False

A factual statement is presented and you decide whether it is correct. Designed to surface common misconceptions: the false statements are things students often incorrectly believe.

Cloze

Fill in the blank in a sentence or formula. The blank always represents a single key term, usually one word; the hint under the prompt says how many words to type. Used for definitions, formula components, and cause-and-effect completions where the surrounding text provides useful scaffolding.

Fill the gap (Scaffold)

A model paragraph or explanation with a key term replaced by a dropdown option. You select the correct term to complete the passage. Used for extended-response topics where seeing a structured model answer in context builds both vocabulary and argument structure.

Evaluate (Mark it) Beta

A complete model answer to an extended-response question is shown alongside the mark scheme band descriptors. You select the mark band the answer deserves, playing examiner rather than student. Powers the Mark It session mode. Still in Beta as a card type, now authored across six subjects: History, Business Studies, Design & Technology, Food Preparation & Nutrition, Geography, and Religious Studies. It appears in the Mark It picker only for subjects that have these cards.

Calculation

Work out a numerical answer from figures given in the prompt. The answer is a number with a unit (e.g. 25%, £4,000, 5,000 units). The checker strips currency symbols, percentage signs, and commas before comparing, accepts the card's unit typed after the number or left off, and treats 25% and 0.25 as equivalent where appropriate. The card back shows a worked solution. Used in Business Studies, Computer Science, Drama, Food Preparation & Nutrition, Geography, PE Theory, Psychology, and Science.