Echo

Quick lesson-tied revision — multiple-choice packs from what you taught today, with optional learning video and a brief upskill when students miss a question.

All Learning guidesSign in and pick a class to open Echo

What Echo is for

Assign an Echo pack form with Module, lesson focus, Practice or Proper assessment, and learning video — Create — Module, title, Upload & summarise, lesson material, then Practice or Proper assessment· click to enlarge

Echo is for short, lesson-tied revision — usually a handful of multiple-choice questions from what you taught today. Foundry is different: longer skill-pathway diagnostics across a subject. Use Echo for quick checks; use Foundry when you want a broader gap map.

You describe the lesson in one box (topic, must-cover ideas, notes, and links if you have them), and Isotopic Learning generates a small MCQ pack. Choose Practice (goes to Module Playground → Class practice) or Proper assessment (goes to Workshop). Students can also keep private packs via Student Lab → Your practice. When they miss a question, Echo can offer a short upskill read and one retry.

What Echo (and Socrates) draw on

Echo questions and Socrates lines are grounded in real teaching context — not a generic chat. When you draft a pack, the generator uses:

What was learned today — your lesson notes, including any must-cover ideas, pasted notes, and links in the same box
The class and student year level you are creating in
In Playground, resources the student adds for that week

Optional learning video (Explainer)

On create, you can attach a short Learning video (Explainer) — script, pictures, and voice. Science and HASS can start from a short topic. If the topic could mean more than one thing, you choose which one you mean, or use your own topic. Unrelated pages are not offered. Maths needs a method or one worked example in the box. English needs a short example or the passage. A topic name on its own does not make a Maths or English video. When a matching lesson is already on the shelf, that video is reused, so it can be ready much sooner. A new video is made when there is no match, and that still takes a few minutes — you can leave the page. Videos teach the year level, with pictures that follow the voice. They are kept for about seven days. You can Assign to class while the video is still building; the task card shows Video generating until it is ready, then Watch video. Use Save video if the player stays black on iPad: the share sheet lets you put it in Photos or in the Files app (Browse → Downloads or On My iPad).

You do not need to wait on the create screen. Assign, keep teaching, and the card refreshes when the video is ready.

Super-Loop is an optional habit on Echo plus a learning video — preview from 3.00 pm the day before class, then regenerate questions after class. In schools the teacher sets one sequence for the class. On Indi, Learners build their own. Everyday Echo works without it. See Playground → Super-Loop, or Indi families → Super-Loop.

Typical flow

Open your Module → Lab → Assign Echo pack (Module is already selected when you open Lab from the Module).
Set lesson material (topic, must-cover ideas, notes, and links in one box — or upload a file), subject, year level, Practice or Proper assessment, and an optional due date. You can ask Oracle to draft the pack from any page. For Super-Loop, choose Practice, tick Super-Loop, and set the lesson date.
Optional: Generate video under Learning video (Explainer).
Assign — Practice goes to Playground Class practice; Proper assessment goes to Workshop; or Save to Playground for a private pack.
Students complete the MCQs. On a miss, they may see diagnostics, a short upskill paragraph, and one retry.
On a second miss, Echo underlines the answer span, offers one Socrates line, then asks a quick self-check — without opening a long chat.

Student Echo session with four photosynthesis MCQs — Complete the pack — short private revision MCQs· click to enlarge

Echo review showing correct answers and one item corrected after Socrates — Results / review — correct items marked; after a miss, Socrates can coach one retry (shown as After Socrates)· click to enlarge

Echo upskill paragraph and retry question — Upskill — short read, then one retry on the gap· click to enlarge

Socrates in Echo is deliberately brief: one guided line after a second miss, then the student moves on. Spark and Flux offer a fuller coaching conversation. Echo is meant to close a gap quickly and return to the pack.