What is in Learning Studio
OptiAI Core curriculum
English language arts and STEM, kindergarten to grade 8 by grade and grades 9 to 12 as ten courses. Short lessons, spiral review and the US standards each lesson covers (Common Core, NGSS, CSTA).
A plan that flexes
Opti drafts your week around the family calendar. When a day is away or busy, open lessons move to the next day with room, in order, and nothing is lost.
Where to start
A short check of up to 12 questions helps choose where lessons begin. It is not a test and not a grade, and you can repeat it each term.
Practice, marked as you go
Numbers, fractions, expressions, ordering, matching and short answers are checked on the device. Hints arrive one tap at a time and never give the answer early.
Comfort options for every learner
Text size, spacing, background tint, a reading ruler, read-aloud with word highlighting, focus chunks and an easy-read font. A font is a preference, not a cure, and nothing is labelled.
Safe labs and a code studio
Virtual labs and household labs with materials and stop rules; some steps wait for a grown-up tap. Code runs only on the device, in a locked-down sandbox.
Step-by-step hints
Children get pre-written hints one step at a time and a nudge to ask a grown-up. An AI study helper for teens (13 and up, only with a parent's opt-in) is switched off for now and will return when it can run on an AI provider that allows teen use.
Future: ideas, not verdicts
A Future page for each child: strengths with the evidence behind them, then interests (under 10), broad areas (10 to 12) or pathways with US and UK routes (13 and up), and what to try next as one-tap goals. No salary figures, no assumptions from gender or background, and a teen sees only what you share.
Records you control
Reports, weekly notes, a portfolio, hours and a parent-issued transcript. Drafts stay drafts until you approve them, and compliance packs list state requirements and deadlines.
School tab
Report cards, grades, homework, subjects and teachers, and school notices in one place. Add a report card by hand or from a photo: Opti reads it, you check it and then save. Switch between the grading scales families use.
Achievements for every child
Awards, trophies and milestones on a shelf for each child, with a timeline and a celebration. A parent can add a private note that the child never sees, and a share image shows only the title, date and first name.
How is your child doing
A short read-out for parents built from grades, mastery, homework, attendance and effort, with a 'why this' line for each point and ideas for extra practice or a goal. Only de-identified figures are used, never your child's name or notes. Suggestions, not an assessment.
Goals and school history
Set goals with a target and progress, keep every past report card and grade, and end the school year in one step that moves the grade up.
Circles for parents
Run a co-op or class with other parents: classes, RSVPs, trips with in-app permission slips, shared plans and a parents' board. Circles never share your child's data.
A learning jar
Optional small rewards for finishing a quest, paid into the Save jar in Kids' Money only after a guardian approves.
Early years: birth to 5
Learning Studio now has activities for infants, toddlers, twos, Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4. They are ideas for a grown-up to do with the child, with safety notes for adult supervision. For under 2s the screen speaks to you and the play happens away from it. For ages 2 to 5, a short shared "Play together" session ends with a prompt to play away from the screen. A child under 5 has no account, voice and photo inputs are off, and you can log a moment to your private Childcare record. Play together fills a big screen, so it works on the living-room TV, and what you played (plus a Pre-K sticker book, just for fun, with no streaks or points) shows on every family device. It never assesses or labels your child.
Play together fills a big screen, so it works on the living-room TV, and what you played (plus a Pre-K sticker book, just for fun, with no streaks or points) shows on every family device. A moment can carry a photo or a short video, and so can any milestone in Childcare; they stay private to the people who can already see that child's milestones.
Kindergarten lessons that talk, sing and listen
Kindergarten lessons open in a narrated player: each step is read aloud, there are short songs, and big touch targets let a child count, order and match. A child can answer out loud; the speech is recognised on the device only, never recorded or sent anywhere, and if it cannot be recognised a grown-up confirms the answer. Hints come one at a time, and a lesson that was hard comes back soon. It is a way to learn, not an assessment, and nothing is labelled.
Privacy and safety, by design
Learning records and school records are sensitive and are not shared with the household by default; you grant access to a named person in Data sharing (School records or Learning records). Insights use only de-identified figures and are for parents. Learning Studio never diagnoses, tutor chats are only for teens and parents, and nothing in a lesson is built to be an ad.
Where it fits
Learning Studio is for homeschool families, after-school support and anyone who wants lessons and records in one place. It works with the family calendar, Kids' Money and the Document Vault. It is US only for now.