A tutor for every child in the room.
Atlas gives each student their own sequence, and gives you a per-child record of what they can actually do — on phones the students already have, in a building where the wifi may not reach.
Atlas is a complete tutor that runs a separate sequence for every student in the room, on the Android phones the students already have, with no school server, no device trolley and no IT project.
How does Atlas work in a room where every child is at a different level?
It runs a separate sequence for every student at the same time, and you do not have to schedule any of them.
One teacher, a full room, several different levels in it, and no humanly possible way to run that many sequences at once: that is the problem Atlas is shaped for. The usual escape is to teach to the average, who is the one person not in the room.
Atlas runs one sequence per child, and it does it without a lab, a trolley, a server or a network.
What a teacher sees.
Per child
What they can do unaided, what is shaky, what Atlas is working on next, and what it is holding back until a prerequisite is repaired.
Per class
Where the group is genuinely stuck, which is a different question from who got the most questions wrong.
With its reason
Every recommendation comes with the reason that produced it. You are never asked to trust a number you cannot interrogate.
Does Atlas need the school network?
No. There is no school server, no access points, no trolley and no IT project.
Setup needs a connection once, and a school is often the best place in a community to provide one — that is a good reason to run it from here rather than a problem to solve.
After that, students learn at home, on their own phones, with no connection at all. The record travels with the child, not with the building: change class, change shift, change school, and what Atlas knows about them goes too.
Does Atlas replace the teacher?
No, and it is not built to. Atlas takes the part a teacher cannot physically do: a continuously adjusted sequence for every student in the room, all running at once, and a live mastery record for each of them.
It does not take the part only you can do. A teacher sees a child give up before the child says so, and knows when the answer is not another exercise. That is not in any engine, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What we are looking for right now.
We are working with a small number of schools before opening this more widely, because a tutor that has not yet been in a real classroom is a hypothesis, however well built it is.
If you teach somewhere Atlas ought to work, we would like to hear from you — especially if your connectivity is bad, because that is the case we most need to get right, and the one we can least solve from a desk.
A tutor for every child in the room. And for every child at home.
One email when Atlas opens. Nothing else.