Core features

Learn

A browsable library of key facts, organised by topic and subtopic — the same material your practice cards are built from. Read first, then drill.

What the Learn page is

The Learn page is a structured fact browser. Every key fact that Educator has extracted from subject research notes — the same source material the practice cards are built from — is presented here as a readable list, organised into topics and subtopics.

Think of it as the textbook layer of the app. Where practice is active recall under pressure, Learn is quiet reading: you scan the facts, absorb them at your own pace, and build a mental map of a topic before the cards start testing you on it.

Learn and Practice share the same structure. Every topic and subtopic you see in Learn maps directly to the cards in Practice. If you read a fact in Learn, there is a card somewhere in the deck that will test you on it.

How to navigate it

The Learn page opens at /learn and immediately redirects you to your active subject — the same subject shown in the header subject switcher. Use the switcher to change subject; Learn will follow.

From the subject page you see a grid of all topics, each showing the number of subtopics it contains. Click a topic card to open the full fact list for that topic — all its subtopics are shown as inline sections on a single page. There is no separate subtopic navigation level; scroll to move between sections.

School students whose teacher has applied a topic filter will only see the topics their class is currently studying. If you try to navigate directly to a topic URL that is outside your class allowlist, you are redirected back to the subject index.

/learn: Entry point — redirects to your subject automatically.
/learn/[subject]: Topic index for a subject, with fact and subtopic counts.
/learn/[subject]/[topic]: Full fact list for a topic, grouped into subtopic sections.

What facts look like

Each fact is a single discrete sentence — an examiner-quality statement of one thing that is true about the topic. Facts are numbered within each subtopic section so you can track where you are. They are extracted directly from the research notes the content team compiles for each subject, so the wording is the same wording that informs the cards.

Facts are presented in a clean list — no distractors, no timers, no scoring. Reading them is not a test. That is by design: Learn is for building the initial mental model; Practice is for reinforcing it.

Topic overviews

Some subtopic sections open with an Overview paragraph above the numbered fact list. This is a short piece of contextual prose — typically two to four sentences — that explains what the subtopic is about and how it fits into the broader topic.

Overviews are written by the content team and stored separately from the facts. Not every subtopic has one — if there is no overview, the fact list starts immediately under the subtopic heading. Overviews are being rolled out subject-by-subject and will fill in over time.

How to use Learn effectively

Read before you drill

If you are starting a topic that is completely new to you, spend five minutes in Learn first. Skim the subtopic overviews, then read through the facts. When you switch to Practice and the first card appears, you will have something to retrieve rather than guessing blind. The Study mode practice option (available directly from Learn's topic page) does a quiet read-through of 30 cards — prompt, answer, and source all visible, no scoring — which is the minimal bridge between reading and drilling.

Cross-check a card you got wrong

When a card trips you up in a practice session, the answer on the card back is the minimal correct response — it does not explain why it is true. Navigate to the relevant subtopic in Learn to read the surrounding facts and the overview paragraph. Seeing the fact in context, alongside the three or four related facts in the same subtopic, makes the answer stick far better than just re-reading the card.

Revision the night before a test

The night before an exam or class test, open Learn for the topics on the paper and read through the fact lists at pace. You are not trying to memorise new material — you are priming retrieval for facts you have already drilled. This is the same mechanism behind the “spacing effect” in spaced-repetition research: a final exposure just before the test lifts performance without requiring another full drill session.

Study mode shortcut. Every topic page in Learn has a Study this topic button at the top and bottom. This launches a Study mode practice session scoped to that topic — no timer, no right/wrong judgment, just card-by-card read-through. Each subtopic section also has a Study this section button that scopes the session to that subtopic's cards only. Study sessions count toward your daily streak and award 1 XP per card seen (rather than 10 for a correct answer in practice), and advance unseen cards to “Seen” in the mastery ladder. Use them when you want the feel of reviewing cards without the pressure of being tested. Study sessions count toward the free-tier daily session limit in the same way as quiz sessions.

Relationship to Practice

Learn and Practice share the same topic and subtopic structure. The subject, topic, and subtopic labels you see in Learn are identical to the labels the practice session picker uses. When a teacher sets up a class topic filter — restricting which topics appear in Practice — that same filter applies to Learn, so students only see the material they are expected to be studying.

The fact in Learn and the card in Practice are not always worded identically. Facts are written as standalone declarative sentences; cards are shaped into a prompt-and-answer format, sometimes with distractors for multiple-choice or a gap for cloze. But the underlying knowledge is the same — learn the fact, and answering the card becomes retrieval rather than guessing.

From any topic page in Learn you can jump straight into a Practice session scoped to that topic, or a Study mode read-through, without going back to the dashboard. The Practice this topic button at the top and bottom of every topic page opens the adaptive session with the topic pre-selected.

Who can see Learn

Learn is available to all signed-in users with a valid subject. No separate unlock or subscription is required — even free individual accounts on the 5-sessions-per-day free tier can browse Learn without restriction.

School students see the topics for their class subject. If their teacher has applied a topic filter, only those topics are shown.
Teachers and HoDs see the full topic list for any subject — topic filters do not apply to staff.
Individual learners see the full topic list for their chosen subject. Use the header subject switcher to browse a different subject.

Unauthenticated visitors are redirected to the sign-in page. There is no public preview of the fact library.