Astras (students)
Every student on a plan, in a school or with an Alpha.
Exam LabPast-paper questions by topic, paper and year, marked the moment they are answered.
Multiple choice is scored at once; written answers are marked point by point against the mark scheme by our AI marker, with examiner-style feedback, or by the student's teacher where the school prefers. Whole papers run to the clock printed on their cover. Every script stays in the account to review.
Daily Challenge and Daily PracticeA short set every day, the same for everyone on the course.
Courses with a multiple-choice paper get a Daily Challenge; the others get Daily Practice of short written questions. The answers and mark schemes open when the day ends; written parts are marked by the AI marker or the teacher. Each day counts towards the Performance Index.
Study planWeekly activities chosen from the student's own results.
Each week the plan picks topics from the results and from what the class has covered, then sets practice, a short test and a third step that suits the subject: a practical, the CS Workshop, worked examples or an exam-style answer.
Way forwardA goal in each subject, a bar of the progress towards it, and the next steps in order.
A Cambridge goal is a grade (A* to E on the portal's bands); a test's is a score. The bar runs from where the student stood when the goal was set to the goal, from the latest marked results. The steps: a first paper to measure, overdue work, the weakest topics to drill, the papers to sit this week. Set by the student, their subject teacher, their Alpha or an admin; a parent reads it.
Planner and the AI PlannerA one-stop planner and calendar: the day after school divided into a timetable of tasks with a box to tick.
The AI Planner (formerly the PA for Time Management), an AI agent connected to every member, asks whether the study time (4 pm to 10 pm by default) is fine, takes the routines outside Scholex (school hours, tuition, meals, prayers, sport, rest) and divides the next two weeks around them, the classes and live sessions, each subject's way forward and the work due: the weakest subject first, 40 to 60 minute blocks with breaks, a review at the day's end, Sundays lighter. The week is a strip of day cards with a progress ring each; the chosen day is a timeline of blocks sized by their minutes and coloured by kind (study, work due, classes and sessions, routines and breaks, review), with the current time marked, beside its table of times, tasks and the tick; filters show one kind at a time; the month is tinted by how much of each day is done; a click opens a task's details and its link. The member's teachers, Alphas, Luminas, Chirons, coaches and admins can edit it and have the AI Planner plan again. Every task it draws can be edited. A member may upload a photo or a PDF of their own planner for the AI Planner to analyse and keep to, give it a brief once a week on how to shape the plan, and go back to any previous plan; the auto planner redraws the next two weeks every Sunday evening from their results and ticks, unless turned off.
In the portal: /portal/planner
Digital SAT and ACTPractice in the Digital SAT format, with an AI coach that plans the week; the ACT prepared in full beside it.
SAT Lab: adaptive practice tests, section drills, a coach that reads the results and sets the week's work, rankings among the course, and a tutor for the questions that need a word. The ACT (the owner, 2026-11-08: it sits with the SAT, not with the English and French tests): a course teaching every section, mocks in the enhanced ACT's own timing with its optional Science and Writing, section practice and skill drills, the essay marked on the ACT's four writing domains.
International and admission testsIELTS, TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic, DELF and DALF, and Pakistan's university admission tests, each with full mocks.
Every test has a course, mocks in its own format, written and spoken answers marked by the AI examiner, results on the test's own scale, and resources and dates. The admission tests follow each university's paper.
Practical Lab and simulationsScience practicals by year and 200 simulations, done on screen with readings and write-ups.
Each practical has its method, its apparatus, its readings to take and its write-up to mark; the simulations cover physics, chemistry, biology and more, ours and PhET's.
Subject helpers and StudiosA helper in every subject that explains without handing over the answer.
Each subject's helper answers in its own voice from the syllabus; a question it can't answer waits for the teacher in the subject's Studio. Paid students ask up to 40 questions a day; free students 3.
Marked papers and my marksEvery marked paper, online or on paper, in one place.
The AI Examiner's reports, the teachers' marking of set work, and offline test marks a teacher publishes, with the grade bands and the rankings they feed.
Resources and the Resource LibraryNotes, past papers, mark schemes, recordings and the network's shared library.
Each subject's own resources with study notes, plus the Resource Library of approved notes, worksheets and videos; library points reward the material members add.
Progress, rankings and leaderboardsAccuracy by topic, the Performance Index, and standing among the class and the course.
Every attempt feeds the topic map and the index; rankings run per subject with offline marks counted where the admins choose; leaderboards show the week's and the term's top performers.
Live classes with Alphas and LuminasSubscriptions to live online teaching by vetted teachers (Alphas) and senior teachers (Luminas).
Each Alpha has a public profile, subjects, fees and sessions; a subscription brings live classes, set work, marked scripts and progress in the Alpha's desk. Schools engage an Alpha for a class.
Counselling with ChironsUniversity and career guidance from a counsellor (a Chiron), with tasks, sessions and a plan.
A counselling add-on links the student to a Chiron. The Counselling page reads as one path, step by step: the counsellor, a first session (Join opens on the page), a goal, a plan of tasks with one-tap updates and evidence, competitions saved to a tracker with their deadlines, mock interviews, the finance check, the Guide and Prerequisites (each admission system's checklist: what is required, what varies, what the counsellor must verify on the official page), each step done or next, with today's figures at a glance. The plan reads as pillar bars (academics, testing, skills and language, internships, community service, research and competitions, applications) and task cards with their window, days left and the evidence to show; the Chiron also sees the score out of 100 against where the student should be today, and the feasibility banner. Achievements, activities and a pathway plan the family follows.
Co-curricular activitiesSports, leadership and STEM programmes near the family and online, with places and registers.
A student asks for a place, a parent for a child's; the coach runs the programme's register and sessions; the dashboard shows the hours.
Astra's LaunchpadA startup incubator for members: ideas, teams, pitches and investors.
Members post ideas and startups with milestones and a team, pitch to named investors with private decks, and follow the week's leaderboards; Launchpad Premium opens the investors' side.