Questions
The questions that come in most often
Grouped by who asks them, so you need not read through someone else's questions.
About the app
What age is it for?
Ages 6 to 12, the Dutch primary years 3 to 8. If you like, a short placement test sees where your child really is; from there the level moves with every answer. A child who already knows the tables does not get stuck on number bonds.
Which subjects are there?
Six: maths, spelling, grammar, geography, typing and road safety, with the UK or US version where the content differs, such as money, spelling and the rules of the road. Each subject has its own animal and its own progress, and works the same way: give the answer yourself, an explanation after every mistake, and back again until it sticks.
It is too easy or too hard. Now what?
Usually the app sorts that out itself: the level moves with every answer, and whatever takes too long comes back. If you want to steer, you set the year or the path in the parent dashboard — and your child can pick another step on the home screen.
Does it work without internet?
Yes, after the first time. The questions are made on the device and the progress lives on the device. Only sending it to your account, signing in and the subscription wait until there is a connection again.
Is there an app for Android or iPhone?
Yes. For Android the app is on Google Play; for now as a test, so if you would like to join, let us know via contact. A version for iPhone and iPad will follow. Until then, and on any other device, it works in the browser: add it to your home screen, on iPhone and iPad with the share button in Safari and then «Add to Home Screen», on Android with «Install» in Chrome. From then on it opens as an app, and after the first time without internet too.
For parents
What does it cost?
Nothing at the moment. Learnbits is still being built: there is no paywall and nothing is charged. A subscription arrives when the app is finished, and the price will be on the site before we ask for it.
How do I cancel?
Yourself, in your account, in the same place the subscription sits. No phone call, no form. What your child has practised so far stays yours.
How many children fit on one account?
Up to 4. Each child has their own animal, their own path and their own progress in every subject, and picks their own card on the home screen. One subscription covers the whole family.
How long does my child practise a day?
A session is 8 minutes of practice, 2 minutes of review and 5 minutes of play. 3 of them fit in a day; after that the app closes until tomorrow, even if your child wants more. There is no button to stretch it.
What do you keep about my child?
Without signing in, nothing: everything lives on the device. If you sign in, we keep under your account, per child, the name, the colour, the animal and what was practised — there is no child account, no email address, no photo and no chat.
For schools and teachers
Can my school use it?
Yes. You make a teacher account with your school email address and put your class in it; pupils sign in with a class code and their own card, without an email address. During the pilot it is free, with no quote and no minimum.
Can I print worksheets?
As a teacher, yes: pick a subject, a domain, a learning line and a path, and you have a sheet of questions, with or without a help box. The sheet carries a QR code through which pupils fill in their answers, and the results land with you.
Can I set weekly tasks or homework?
Yes. Per week and per subject you set what the class does: practice in the app, a worksheet online or on paper, a test, an explanation or a line of your own. For the whole class, for a learning route or for individual pupils. You see per child what is done and how it went, and you print one pack per pupil with an overview sheet and the sheets behind it.
My child uses it at school and at home. Is that one profile?
No, deliberately. The school profile belongs to the school and the home profile to you; nothing flows from one to the other. Otherwise you would be looking into a class's progress, or a teacher into your family's.