Reading your child's progress

The Parent Area turns practice into charts and lists. Learn what Passed and Not yet really mean, and how to read the results without turning them into pressure.

Where to look

Open "Parent Area" from the menu. It shows the progress of the child who is currently active, so pick the right child first with "Who's learning?" at the top of the page. If your child has no year of birth yet, you will see a short form to add it, which lets the charts show what is expected at their age.

You will find a skill map, a mathematics chart, a report with "Doing well" and "Needs more practice" sections, and a table of skills. Nothing is made up: a skill that has not been played yet simply shows as not played yet.

Passed and Not yet

Each skill has one or more activities. The skill's progress is the average of its activities, each counted according to its weight, and an activity that has not been started counts as 0%. This is why a skill can look low at first even if your child did well in the one activity they tried: the others have not been played.

A skill shows Passed once that average reaches the pass mark. Until then it shows Not yet. Notice the wording. It does not say failed, and it does not say never. It says not yet, which is a good way to talk about it at home too. If a topic says "Not enough attempts yet", there is simply too little practice to say anything useful.

What "mastered" means here

When we say mastered, we mean a child has answered enough questions on a skill, correctly enough, to reach the pass mark. It is a snapshot of recent practice, not a verdict on ability and not a school grade. Practise a little more, and a Not yet can turn into a Passed.

The syllabus page for each level also shows how many skills are passed out of the total, and an information button next to each score explains how it was worked out.

Reading it without pressure

Look at the "Doing well" section first and say something specific about it.
Treat "Needs more practice" as a list of next games, not a list of weaknesses.
Compare your child with their own earlier results, never with a sibling or a classmate.
Don't check every day. Once a week is plenty.
Remember that stars and percentages come from short games. A tired child plays worse than a rested one.

The results exist to help you choose what to practise next. If they make a child anxious, put them away for a while and play something just for fun.