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Guides
Plain-English, step-by-step help for every part of AltEd — where to go, what to click, and what each screen does. Search the guides (⌘K), pick a topic from the list, or start at the beginning.
Plan the year
- Curriculum builderBuild a subject's whole curriculum from the exam board's official specification, paced to your dates, with a tick box per statement.Read the guide
- TimetablesBuild a weekly study timetable: your days and hours, a weighting per subject, and a week that lays itself out around what can't move.Read the guide
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Plan the learning
- LearnersAdd and manage a profile for each learner — the anchor for their lessons, assignments and sessions.
- The learner's own pageGive your child their own portal — work, lessons, curriculum, timetable, schedule, classes and portfolio, theirs to log into and to print. Share it as a private link (scan the QR code to open it on their own tablet), or give them a sign-in of their own. Nothing about money either way, and marks only if you say so.
- Curriculum builderBuild a subject's whole curriculum from the exam board's official specification, paced to your dates, with a tick box per statement.
- Courses and lessonsFor tutors and providers: write a subject programme once, break it into lessons, and reuse it with every learner you teach.
- AssignmentsSet work, link it to a lesson, mark it, and follow it from Assigned through to Reviewed.
- Progress — the trackerSet tasks and targets, tick work off with the evidence and the score, log progress and incidents, record days and hours, and read the week-by-week record — printable.
- PortfolioKeep the evidence as it happens — work samples, photos, observations, achievements and reading — so a year never has to be reconstructed from memory.
- Reports & the education recordAssemble a printable education record or transcript for one learner and one period, from what you have already logged.
- AI creditsWhat AI features cost, the credits your plan includes each month, the credits you earn setting up, topping up by card, and every use.
- AI draftingSummaries of your records, a short read of each learner's week, their gaps explained, marking drafted from your notes, portfolio entries from photos, and — if you allow it — your tutors' session reports. Off unless you switch it on, and it only ever describes what's there.
- Local authority readinessSee whether your records would answer the questions a council usually asks — before anyone asks them.
- NotesKeep a personal notebook — a block editor with a / menu, @ mentions that share a note with the people you work with — to read, or to edit together with a history — # tags, : emoji, page icons, colour-coded notebooks, pinning and archiving; learners get their own.
Calendar & sessions
- CalendarThe shared family calendar: events, attendees and recurring schedules everyone can see.
- TimetablesBuild a weekly study timetable: your days and hours, a weighting per subject, and a week that lays itself out around what can't move.
- ConnectionsHow a family grants a tutor access to a learner's records — and takes it back whenever they choose.
- Messages & notificationsTalk to the families or tutors you're connected to, next to the records you're discussing — and a bell that opens exactly what it's about.
- Safe messagingWhat AltEd checks as a message is sent, the notices you might see, held and removed messages, and reporting a message or a person.
- SessionsTwo-sided tutoring sessions — scheduling, confirming what was delivered and attended, reporting absences, and reports for the family.
- ClassesGroup classes with a set number of places and a waiting list that fills itself — put your poster on them, and the volunteer hours behind them.
Payments & credits
Account & settings
- Signing in & account securityMagic links, passwords, passkeys, two-factor and social sign-in — plus resetting a password and managing your account.
- SettingsYour profile, email, password, passkeys and connected accounts — and switching between the parent and provider views.
- AltEd as an app, and offlineInstall AltEd on a phone, tablet or computer, read the pages you've opened with no connection, and keep ticking, logging and writing — it's sent when you're back online.
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