Your learning home

Home is the screen you land on after signing in. It exists to answer one question: what should I do now?

Home shows the current quest, today’s goal, skills and the learner’s recent path.

What is on it

Continue where you left off. The lesson you were last working on, with a button to pick it up. If you do nothing else, this is the button to press.

What is next. The stage that has just unlocked on the quest you are working through.

Recommended. Suggestions based on what you have done and what you found difficult. These are worth taking seriously — the portal recommends revision of things you got wrong more often than it recommends new material.

Your subjects. Cards for each subject you are enrolled in, as a way in when you want to choose rather than continue.

Progress. How far along your quests you are, and any streak you are on.

Anything due. Work your teacher has set with a date on it. This is the part to check first — a recommended lesson can wait, an assignment due tomorrow cannot.

The exact arrangement depends on your tier. Younger learners see fewer, bigger things; older learners see more at once.

Choosing a path

Learners who are not following a class-set curriculum can choose a path — the area of learning to work through. You can change it later, and changing it does not lose the progress you have made.

Making it work

Little and often beats a marathon. Two stages a day, most days, gets further than one long session at the weekend, and the portal is built around that rhythm.

Finish the lesson you start. Progress is recorded per activity, so you can stop and come back — but a lesson left half-done is one you will have to re-read the beginning of.

Do not skip the “try” activities. They are the ones that make the difference. Watching a video and answering a question about it is not the same as doing the thing.

Use recommendations for revision. When you have a spare twenty minutes, the recommendations are a better use of them than starting something new.

Settings

The settings screen holds your profile, your password, and how the portal behaves — sound on or off, and notification preferences.

Sound matters in the younger tiers, where instructions are spoken as well as written. If a learner seems stuck on activities that read out loud, check that sound is on and the device is not muted.