Roadmap
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. Shipped, on prod, in pilot use.
Food Prep & Nutrition, History, Geography, Combined Science, Design & Technology, Religious Studies, Computer Science, Business Studies, PE Theory, Drama, Sociology and Psychology, GCSE and KS3 for each. Over 17,129 cards across 24 subject keys. Every subtopic at substantive depth (≥10 cards) or higher, every recall answer ≤4 words, every card source-cited to a research dossier and fact-checked.
Per-card boards tagging means a single card bank serves multiple exam boards. Food → Eduqas + AQA + WJEC. History → AQA + Edexcel + OCR + Eduqas + WJEC. Geography → AQA + Edexcel + OCR + Eduqas + WJEC. Science → AQA + Edexcel + OCR + WJEC + Eduqas. D&T → 6 boards. RS → 5 boards. CS → 4 boards. Business Studies → 6 boards.
Each subject has its own rank labels and character emoji set: Chef for Food, Scholar for History, Explorer for Geography, Scientist for Science, Maker for D&T, and so on. Same shared XP and progression mechanics under the hood, but the identity layer matches what the student is learning.
Adaptive sequencing biases each session toward due-and-wrong cards, then unseen, then random. Three minutes a day, no choice paralysis. First daily login earns +50 XP.
Recall, multiple choice, match, true/false, cloze, and calculation (Business Studies). Every recall answer is ≤4 words. MCQ distractors are plausibly wrong (not silly), so the question is genuinely discriminating.
Standard 15-card session, Speed Round with an 8-second per-card timer, 50-card Marathon, and a no-input Study mode that reveals each answer for read-through. Study is the natural on-ramp for any subject the student doesn't yet know cold.
Five levels (Unseen, Seen, Familiar, Proficient, Mastered) computed per card from review history. Surfaced as the lead stat over raw XP, so students see genuine learning progress rather than a point total.
Each card tagged Foundation, Higher, or both. Students pick at onboarding and switch from their profile; sessions only show what their tier covers.
Per-subtopic cited fact lists, accessible from the dashboard. Each subject's dossiers surface 6–12 authoritative facts per subtopic: the primer before the quiz. Every fact links directly to the 1–2 cards that test it, so 'read, then practise' is one tap.
Daily streak protection earns one freeze per seven-day chain plus one per homework completion, capped at five. Lose a streak of 3+ days and you get 48 hours and 2 sessions to restore it. Dashboard banner tracks progress; the frame is always positive, never pressuring.
Site-wide and class-scoped themed events with XP bonus payouts and unique badges. Teachers create class events ('Year 10 Mock Sprint' with a topic scope and a window) using the same engine as platform-wide battles.
Teacher fires a PIN-join class session; students join from their dashboard; teacher sees a live scoreboard projector-side. Cards drawn from the class subject; full per-question analytics afterwards.
Holographic trading card with rank-based frame, milestone medals, and a certificate back (mastered count, sessions, member-since). Shareable link for students who want to show their progress; the public version hides comparative stats so students can't feel behind.
Nine-tier subject-specific avatars and five seasonal themes (Educator, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) all unlockable with XP. Students personalise the app the way they'd personalise any game lobby, except the unlock is revision.
Per-subject achievement set tiered Bronze / Silver / Gold by progress. Event completions earn medals; students equip one as the featured slot on their trading card.
Teachers see streak, mastery, weak count, and last-active per student. A class-wide accuracy-by-topic chart and a 'cards the class is struggling with' panel surface what to reteach, not just who's behind.
Teachers run multiple classes. HoDs get oversight of every class in their department: engagement, accuracy and struggling cards visible across all classes in one view. School invite codes let colleagues join without IT involvement.
Assign a topic-scoped task with a due date; students see the homework banner on their dashboard; teachers click through to see who's done it and how they scored. First completion earns a streak freeze.
Every Sunday evening, opted-in teachers get one email covering all their active classes: sessions, cards seen, XP earned, top 3 students, streak-dropped students worth a nudge, and the top struggling card.
One-click CSV with sessions, cards seen, accuracy, mastered and last-active per student. Print pack generates a PDF for the noticeboard: class leaderboard, top 5 weak cards per topic as cut-and-fold revision cards, and the join code as a QR.
Class accuracy-by-topic table shows when each topic should sit in the year against a scheme of work. Per-board pacing presets for History; a universal even-spread fallback works on any subject so the 'Fill' button works from day one.
Class, School, and Global tabs ranked by XP, streak, or mastery. Scoped per subject so a Food student and a History student aren't competing on the same board. School students never appear on the global board.
Sign up without a class code. Free tier: 5 sessions/day after a 7-day full-access trial. Pro: unlimited sessions, streak freezes, all cosmetics, leagues, and a position-relative leaderboard view. £50/year or £6/month, switchable from the account portal.
Every individual account sits on a 25-step ladder from Iron IV through Champion, derived live from lifetime league XP. Promotion is immediate when XP crosses the threshold, celebrated with a tier-up banner on the practice-done screen.
Per-subtopic research dossiers cite authoritative sources with retrieval dates. Every card is source-attributed to a specific key fact; a heuristic linter catches first-letter scaffolds, prompt-answer overlap, and template repetition; a drift-watch cron re-fetches cited URLs and flags stale sources. ~700 dossiers across every live subject.
'On a roll' banner after 5 consecutive correct answers, mastery celebration on a card's first Mastered rating. Self-service data export and account delete from the profile page, cascading reviews, sessions, and the sign-in identity.
Decided and scoped. Marketing pages are live and the launch list is open. Card authoring is the next workstream; no promised dates yet.
The fastest-growing GCSE in England (up ~9% in 2025, roughly +96% since 2021) and underserved by quiz tools that fold it into Maths. Edexcel (1ST0) and AQA (8382). Sampling, averages and spread, histograms and cumulative frequency, index numbers, probability and the normal distribution. The calculation card type built for Business transfers straight across.
The natural bolt-on for Business departments. AQA (8136), Edexcel A (1EC0) and OCR (J205). Markets and the price mechanism, market failure, the national economy, money and government policy: definitions, diagrams and calculations the recall-and-calculate mechanic already handles.
The second-largest Level 1/2 vocational award taken at KS4 (WJEC/Eduqas), scoped to the externally-assessed Unit 1 written exam. Industry provision, operations, health and safety, food safety and nutrition: roughly half of it overlapping our existing Food & Nutrition corpus, and squarely in our pedagogy lead's qualified subject.
Decided, scoped, and on the build queue. No promised dates yet.
A calendar on every student profile showing which days they practised: the GitHub contribution graph for revision. Teachers see the same view on the class roster. No stats, no judgement: just the visual record of habit. Students with a full week of squares tend not to need chasing.
Student sets their exam date and Educator reweights the session automatically: weakest cards first, unseen cards next, comfortable cards last, proportioned by how many days remain. The same session mechanic, calibrated for the final push rather than the long game.
When a student hits 80%+ mastery across every card in a topic, they earn a 'topic mastered' seal visible on their profile and on their trading card. Gives students a genuine sense of completion alongside XP, and gives teachers a per-topic progress view at a glance.
Five cards from the student's weakest deck, no XP earned, no session consumed. For the student between lessons who wants to test themselves without committing to a full session or burning a daily slot. Feels like checking rather than practising.
A Sunday opt-in summary for students matching the teacher digest: cards practised, accuracy, best topic, weakest card. The teacher already gets this email; the student should too, and parents often forward it without being asked.
Teachers can attach a class-specific note to any card: a classroom reference, a worked example from a lesson, a link to the relevant slide. The note appears when students in that class review the card. Bridges the gap between Educator content and what was actually taught.
When a student first picks up a new subject, sessions auto-format as MCQ only. Recognition is cognitively cheaper than production-recall. Once mastery hits Familiar on enough cards, recall cards unlock. Especially valuable for students starting RS, CS, or any subject they have no prior background in.
Email or push notification when a student has incomplete homework due within 48 hours and hasn't practised in 24 hours. One nudge per assignment per student max: a prompt, not a pressure campaign.
Student tells the app 'I have a test Thursday' and a scoped session is generated: weak cards first, then unseen, then random, proportioned by how many days are left. Replaces the open-ended daily session with an exam-tuned one for a finite window.
A new card type for confusable concept pairs: Sunni vs Shi'a, Catholic vs Protestant Eucharist, linear vs binary search, tension vs compression. Both definitions shown at once for the student to read, with an optional quiz layer on top.
Optional weekly email plus an opt-in view so parents of Pro subscribers can see streak, mastery and a topic heatmap without needing their own login.
Longer-term ideas under consideration. Get in touch if any of these would change how you'd use Educator.
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.
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.
A 'spot the contamination risk' visual question, or 'name this commodity' from a photo. Lifts the ceiling on what fact recall can ask, especially useful for Science required-practical recognition.
Welcome, verify and magic-link emails sent from hello@educator-labs.com via Resend, matching the weekly teacher digest that already ships from the same domain. Templates are drafted and ready; it's a configuration flip when the time is right.
Phase 2 of the leagues system: a monthly decay of league XP for Diamond and Champion users so the top tiers stay competitive without forcing the leaderboard reset on lower tiers. Phase 1 ships frictionless climbs; Phase 2 adds the top-end churn.
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