Daily-practice fact recall
Adaptive sequencing biases each session toward due-and-wrong cards, then unseen, then random. Three minutes a day, no choice paralysis.
Roadmap
What we're building.
Four buckets, no quarter-by-quarter dates. What ships next is whatever helps our pilot schools the most.
What students and teachers can use today on Educator.Food. Shipped, on prod, in pilot use.
Five card types
Recall, multiple choice, true/false, cloze, and match-pairs. Every card written to a strict ≤6-word answer rule.
Practice modes
Standard 15-card session, Speed Round with an 8-second per-card timer, and 50-card Marathon. One tap from the dashboard.
Mastery progression
Five levels — Unseen, Seen, Familiar, Proficient, Mastered — computed per card from review history. Surfaced as the lead stat over raw XP.
Chef ranks
Six tiers from Apprentice to Master Chef, earned by accuracy × answer-speed over the last 30 reviews. The identity layer above mastery.
Avatars + themes
Nine-tier food-progression avatars unlock with XP. Five themes — Educator, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer — gated by XP thresholds.
Streaks with freezes
Daily streak protection that earns one freeze per seven-day chain plus one per homework completion, capped at five.
Foundation / Higher tier filtering
Each card tagged Foundation, Higher, or both. Students pick at onboarding and switch self-serve from their profile; sessions only show what their tier covers.
Class roster + heatmap
Teachers see streak, mastery, weak count, and last-active per student. Plus a class-wide accuracy-by-topic chart and a 'cards the class is struggling with' panel.
Multi-class teachers + Head of Department
Teachers can run multiple classes. HoDs get oversight of every class in the department plus a school invite code for colleagues, transferable from their Profile.
Homework
Assign a topic-scoped task with a due date, students see the homework banner and tracked progress, teachers click through to see who's done it and how they scored.
Leaderboards
Class, School, and Global tabs ranked by XP, streak, or mastery. Auto-defaults to Class when a student has one.
Admin authoring
Card CRUD with live preview, bulk JSON import, accepted-answer synonyms, and a reports queue for staff-flagged issues.
GDPR controls
Self-service data export and account delete from your profile. Cascades reviews, sessions, and the Clerk identity.
Open card-reporting for students
Every signed-in user can flag a card from the practice runner — staff-gated through the pilot, now open to students. Reports land in the same admin queue staff use.
Streak earn-back
Lose a streak of 3+ days? You get 48 hours and 2 sessions to restore it. Dashboard banner tracks progress; session summary celebrates the comeback. Punishment-cost of a missed day stays low without trivialising the chain.
Daily login bonus
First dashboard visit each day credits +50 XP — half a typical session payout. Atomic in SQL so two tabs can't double credit.
Active work this term — half-shipped, being polished, or on the next push.
Multi-board content audit
239 cards reviewed against the Eduqas (C560), AQA (8585), and WJEC GCSE Food specifications. 237 apply to all three boards; 2 are AQA-only on strict spec content. Result: we can ship to students sitting any of the three exams.
Pilot rollout polish
Verifying every flow with seeded QA users — students, multi-class teachers, HoDs — before the four-week pilot opens.
Decided, scoped, and on the build queue. No promised dates yet.
Sentry error monitoring
Frontend + server-action error capture so a regression doesn't have to wait for a screenshot from a teacher.
Longer-term ideas under consideration. Get in touch if any of these would change how you'd use Educator.
Native mobile app
Educator already works in a mobile browser, but a real app gets us push notifications for the daily streak nudge and a home-screen icon worth opening.
Offline practice
Cache the next session locally so a student with patchy WiFi (or a phone-free school day until 3pm) can still get their three minutes in.
Audio + image cards
A 'spot the contamination risk' visual question, or 'name this commodity' from a photo. Lifts the ceiling on what fact recall can ask.
Parent progress digests
Optional weekly email — three lines, no app login required — so parents can ask about the right thing at dinner.
Y9 KS3 starter pack
Lighter Y9-appropriate cards so departments can build the habit a year before the GCSE clock starts.
Live league seasons
Weekly leagues with promotion/relegation between class peers. Duolingo's biggest engagement lever, scaled down for a 30-student class.
Got a request?
Tell us what your department needs.
We prioritise what helps the pilot schools most. If you want to nudge something up the list — or you have an idea we haven't thought of — drop us a line.
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