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Homeschoolers, tutors, and families share subject Modules. Each learner also has a Personal Interests shelf they fill themselves. Either of you can create Echo, Spark, or Flux in Lab. Assigned packs and private packs both appear in Playground.

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What Indi is

Indi is the family and tutor package. Work lives in Modules (topic shelves). Homeschoolers, private tutors, and independent learners practise in Echo, Spark, and Flux. Indi Educators and Indi Learners both use Lab and Playground — learners often create their own practice, not only packs someone assigned.
WhoWhat you do
Indi EducatorCreate Modules on subjects, assign practice, review Assigned practice, and open each learner’s Personal Interests shelf. Optionally try Foundry (In Testing)
Indi LearnerComplete assigned packs, create your own practice from Lab (those packs appear under Your practice), and fill Personal Interests with Modules you choose

Indi does not include marking, pastoral, or timetable tools. Lab shows Echo, Spark, and Flux, then Foundry and Trace under In Testing — acknowledge once, then use those two. Arcade, Jury, and Latch are not on the Indi Lab shelf.

Shared Module shelf

Start with a Module — for example a term topic or a subject week. The footer tabs are Lab → Playground → Revision → Workshop. Practice from Lab goes to Playground. Proper assessment goes to Workshop.

Module footer — create in Lab, practise in Playground, assessments in Workshop· click to enlarge
Lab — Creating for Module. Echo, Spark, and Flux first; Foundry and Trace under In Testing· click to enlarge

If you are an Indi Educator

  1. Open a subject and create or open a Module. Personal Interests is already under the learner’s name — open it to see Modules they created. You do not add it as a subject, and you do not create those Modules.
  2. In the Module footer, open Lab. Choose Echo, Spark, or Flux (or Foundry under In Testing).
  3. Choose Practice (usual at home) or Proper assessment. On assessments, Socrates is off unless you allow one or two consultations. Learners do not have Oracle. You can open Oracle while you write the task to draft questions.
  4. Assign the pack. You see it under Playground → Assigned practice. The learner sees it under From your educator.
  5. Open Playground to check Done / Not started, open Progress or Results, or Remove a pack (it stays recoverable for a short time).
  6. Super-Loop: assign from Lab (tick Super-Loop and set the lesson date) to add a lesson to the learner’s sequence. You can also watch it on Playground. Learners can still start a preview themselves or add an Echo they already sat.
Your view — Assigned practice you published, and Learner private practice the learner created· click to enlarge
Success looks like this: the learner opens From your educator and works independently, and Learner private practice shows packs they built themselves in Lab.

If you are an Indi Learner

You can complete packs an educator assigned — or open Lab yourself and create practice for the Module you are in. Many households expect Learners to build their own Echo, Spark, or Flux when they know what to revise.
  1. Open a subject Module, or open Personal Interests under your name and create a Module for a topic you want to learn. Then open Lab (same create tools your educator uses).
  2. Create an Echo, Spark, or Flux pack. Save it as Practice / private practice so it stays yours. For Super-Loop, turn it on in Lab or use + Echo on Playground, and set the lesson date. Everyday Echo does not need a date. You can also add an Echo you already sat — that asks for the lesson date too.
  3. Open it from Playground → Your practice. Packs someone assigned to you appear under From your educator.
  4. In Echo, a wrong answer may offer a short upskill and one Socrates retry, then you move on.
  5. Optional: Module Revision builds one recap (Echo quiz or Spark short answers) from tasks already on the Module.
Your Playground — From your educator (assigned packs) and Your practice (packs you created)· click to enlarge
Create from Lab — describe the lesson focus, choose Practice, then Generate questions· click to enlarge
After you finish — review answers. On a miss, Socrates can coach one retry· click to enlarge

Super-Loop (optional)

Super-Loop is an optional study habit built on Echo — not required. Everyday Echo is questions only. On a Super-Loop lesson you can make a short video, or skip it.

The Playground section header shows the cycle (Preview → Lesson → Review). Each lesson you add is a row underneath. The list puts tonight’s lesson first, then newest class date — Date: Newest or Oldest, and Hide finished, sit under the list. A lesson dated further ahead stays dimmed at the bottom until 3.00 pm the day before, so it does not sit in the working order. Everyday Echo stays an ordinary pack unless you add it to the loop. On Indi, an educator can assign a Loop lesson from Lab (tick Super-Loop, set the lesson date), and Learners can still start their own preview or add an Echo they already sat. Use Edit on a lesson row to open Setup (questions and the learning video). Press the date on that row — or the dash, if it has none — to set or change the lesson day. A Super-Loop lesson needs that date; everyday Echo does not. The pencil only renames an Echo you created, and the × takes it out of Super-Loop — the Echo pack stays in Playground. Educators watch that sequence on Playground, including when it is still empty. School classes work differently — the teacher authors one sequence for the whole class (Lab → Echo, tick Super-Loop).

  1. Preview — if you need one, make a short video, then sit a short MCQ. You can skip the video and go straight to the questions.
  2. Lesson — the lesson itself sits in the middle. Each lesson has its own row.
  3. Review — after the lesson, regenerate the MCQs on the same pack and sit them again. Then start the following lesson.

Oracle and Socrates at home

  • Oracle is the drafting chat for educators, open while you write an Echo, Spark, or Flux task. Learners do not have Oracle.
  • Socrates is the coach while someone sits Spark or Flux. It is separate from Oracle.
  • Indi is Echo, Spark, and Flux. It does not include school marking or pastoral records.

For more detail, open the Modules, Lab, Playground, Echo, Spark, Flux, and Foundry guides. Same Isotopic Learning — Indi just uses family labels.

Personal Interests

Each learner already has a Personal Interests shelf under their name in the sidebar. It is not a subject you add. The learner creates the Modules. An educator can open the shelf and see the work.

Use a subject for the programme an educator sets — Maths, English, and so on. Use Personal Interests for a hobby, a stretch topic, or anything the learner wants to practise on their own. The shelf name stays Personal Interests. Only the learner can create, rename, reorder, or delete Modules there. Lab on that shelf is for the learner. An educator who opens it can read the Modules and the work inside them.

  • Learner: open Personal Interests, then + Module for each topic. Playground, Lab, Revision, and Workshop live inside that Module, the same as on a subject.
  • Educator: the shelf is already there. Open it to see what the learner has built. Subject classes stay yours to set up.