This week's SwypeLearn release brings two new things: a card album that rewards kids for coming back, and a set of features for families with more than one child.
The card album
Kids can now collect 36 cards across six sets: Card Climb, Streak Fire, Steady Weeks, Memory Keepers, Topic Tree, and Star Moments. Earned cards go into a binder with proper collectible frames, a reveal when a new one turns over, and a note on the back about the moment it was earned, like "The 1,000th card came up in Fractions."
We were careful about what the cards reward. It is easy to build an album that pays kids for hours on a screen. We built one that pays for days and for remembering:
- Card Climb counts only the first 60 cards of any day, so marathon sessions do not earn more.
- A good week means practice on four days, in a row or not.
- A perfect round needs at least eight cards on the first try at that deck that day. Replaying until it comes out clean does not count.
- Bounce Back is earned by putting ten cards right on a later day than they went wrong.
- A topic counts as mastered when every card in it is familiar.
That is the same spaced-practice idea the whole app is built on, turned into something a kid wants to collect.
Cards can be shared, too. Tap share and the card goes out as a picture, ready for a grandparent's phone.
Practice as a household
Until now, every SwypeLearn feature was about one child, and the Family plan was really a few single-child accounts side by side. The Family plan now has features that only make sense with siblings:
- This week at home shows what every child is doing this week on one page. That is the question a parent of three actually asks on a Sunday night.
- This week together gives the whole household one subject a week, with each child working at their own grade. The house sees cards practised and days turned up. It measures effort, never accuracy, because a six-year-old cannot win a week scored on correctness against a ten-year-old.
- A household streak counts a day as kept when anyone at home practised. The younger one can keep the run going while the older one has a week of exams.
- Give a deck to a sibling. The same topic, rebuilt for the younger child's grade, so they get their own cards.
- The hand-me-down year. When a younger child reaches a grade an older sibling has finished, the notes and changes you made to that year are offered to them.
Plus now includes a second child seat as well.
Everything here is live now at swypelearn.ca. If you have more than one kid at home, the household page is the place to start.