You Will Know How It Is Going.
Five screens, in the same words your child would use. What happened this week, where they are in the syllabus, which questions they got wrong — and, just as often, a plain line saying there is not enough yet to tell you anything true.
Opens in a browser · Nothing to install · Your child sends the invitation · Your child can end it
Your child lets you in. And can let you out.
There is no way to add yourself to a student's account. The invitation starts on their phone, and the switch that ends it stays there.
Your child types your email into their own Profile screen. You cannot request access, and a school cannot add you on their behalf.
It expires, it works once, and re-sending is capped at one an hour. A new invitation retires the old link rather than leaving two alive.
You set a password on the page your child already uses and land in the parent portal. There is no route from it into their account.
Parent access is a toggle on the student's screen. They can turn it off, or unlink you, without asking anyone — including us.
One login can hold several children, and a child can invite more than one parent. What no parent can do is open a student who is not on their own list. That check runs on the server, on every single request, and a mismatch is refused and logged rather than quietly returning an empty page.
It opens with a sentence, not a dashboard.
Ninety seconds before dinner, the first thing on the screen should be readable without a glossary. So it is one line, written from this week's actual work.
- The line at the top Days studied this week against last, then the single most useful thing we can honestly say — strongest subject, weakest subject, or which way accuracy just moved.
- Only the first alert gets a suggestion Eleven checks run, from “quiet for a while” to “testing before reading”. One carries a next step. Five instructions handed to a parent become five pressures handed to a child.
- Recent, never lifetime The last four weeks against the four before. An all-time average barely twitches when a student improves sharply — which makes it useless for the only thing you wanted to know.
- Full papers, out of 720 Best and most recent, side by side — they answer different questions. Practice sets your child built themselves are counted apart and never averaged in.
Not on this screen: a rank prediction, or any figure invented for parents. Every number here is one your child can see too, which is what makes it something you can actually talk about.
“Has she done Genetics?” This is the screen that answers it.
Home is about the week. Learning is about the course — every chapter in the syllabus, in order, including the ones nobody has touched.
- The whole syllabus, not the finished part The blank tiles are what is left. A list of only what has been opened can never answer the question a syllabus screen exists for.
- Five states, and no score Not started, reading, read but not tested, testing, finished. This screen is deliberately neutral — the judgement all lives on Home.
- Reading and testing stay apart Two different lists with two different totals. Adding them once let a parent read “one of one chapters” as “finished Chemistry”, which is a false reassurance rather than a confusing metric.
- Difficulty, in words you can repeat “Working through the basics”, then “on to harder questions”, then “full exam-style sets”. The internal stage names never reach this screen, because your child has never seen them either.
Not on this screen: anything called mastery. It was one number blending reading, accuracy and recall, it moved for reasons no parent could name, and it was deleted rather than renamed.
The one screen where you can open the actual question.
Not a score out of twenty. The question they saw, the option they picked, and why that option looked right.
- Blank and wrong are counted apart Forty left blank is a confidence problem. Forty answered wrong is a knowledge problem. Under negative marking they need opposite conversations, so they are never added into one “mistakes” number.
- One folder per chapter Twenty-nine tests on one chapter is a folder, not twenty-nine rows. Retakes are counted separately — the app asks for them on purpose, so a retaken chapter must not look like a failing one.
- Papers are never averaged with chapter tests A percentage of twenty questions and a mark out of 720 are different units. One trend line across both would be a line through two things.
- What happened when it came back A missed idea returns later, worded differently rather than repeated. You can see each time it came back and whether it held.
Not on this screen: a test that is still being taken. Opening a live paper from another room is reading over your child's shoulder, so the portal refuses and says the test is in progress.
Two things you can act on without knowing any chemistry.
When the studying actually happens, and whether going back over things works for this particular student. Both are facts about the last few months, not forecasts.
- One row per idea, and only one How much of it came back right, which way it has moved across tests, and whether it is going wrong repeatedly — all on the same line. Nothing appears twice anywhere on the screen.
- Retakes are left out here The same questions again, straight after the answers were shown, tells you how well the answers were remembered — not whether the idea stuck.
- Do retakes help this student? First attempts against retakes, for your child alone. Some students gain a great deal from going back over things and some do not, and knowing which beats assuming.
- The paper trend, with three lines under it Every full paper oldest first, and the subject marks beneath — because a total can sit flat for months while one subject climbs and another falls.
Not on this screen: a predicted rank. Built from a handful of papers the estimate ranged, on real student data, from 30 to 2,100,000. A number that unstable does not inform a parent — it frightens one, precisely.
You and the class teacher are reading the same flags.
The checks behind an alert on your Home screen are the same ones running in the teacher portal. Nobody gets a different account of the same week.
- A weekly summary, or nothing Two switches, both able to be off. Neither is a marketing email, and turning both off does not reduce what the portal shows you when you open it.
- The teacher, by name If the school has set the class up, the teacher's card sits in your profile so a difficult week has somewhere to go next.
- Class ranking is off until a school turns it on A percentile is motivating for the top half and quietly corrosive for the bottom, so it is a decision for the school rather than a default. Even switched on it needs at least five students, and never names another child.
- Several children, one login One card each. A child who has switched access off says so on their own card rather than showing you a stale one.
Not on any screen: another child's name, mark or rank. Even with class comparison switched on, the portal returns your child's percentile and the class average, and stops there.
Six rules we wrote for ourselves — then wrote into the software.
These are enforced by the code rather than promised by a page like this one. They are also the reason this portal shows you less than most.
Nothing is stated until it is earned
Eight questions before an accuracy figure. Five re-checks before a recall figure. Six before an idea is named as weak. Below that the screen says “not enough yet” — never 0%.
Two tracks, never one number
Reading is counted against the Concept Studio syllabus, testing against the question bank. Different lists, different totals, so they are shown side by side and never summed.
No word your child has not heard
No mastery, no coverage, no internal phase names. If you could not ask your child about it over dinner, it does not belong on your screen.
No predicted rank
On real papers the estimate swung from 30 to 2,100,000. Marks are shown instead, because marks are a thing that happened.
Every number explains itself
An information button on every block, with the plain-English definition written beside the arithmetic it describes — so the two cannot quietly drift apart.
The same flags as the teacher
One alert engine, read by both portals. A parent and a class teacher are never handed two different accounts of the same week.
Every claim on this page is a decision, not a preference. How the questions are written, checked and audited is a separate document — read the Protocol
The invitation has to come from your child.
Ask them to open Profile and send it to your email. It takes about ten seconds, and you will be looking at this week before they have put the phone down.
Names and figures in the screens above are illustrative. The screens themselves are not.