A kingdom your child runs, and a report you can read

Ages 3 to 6: storybook mode

Every instruction on a child screen is spoken aloud by Rio in the browser’s own voices, so a lesson can be finished without reading a single word. The buttons are large, the pace is slow, and no game anywhere in StudiumYou has a failure state - a wrong answer is never a lost life, a lost point or a sad face.

• Picture puzzles. Four scenes and a tray of letters. Each scene describes itself aloud without naming the answer, so a child using a screen reader solves the same puzzle as everybody else.
• Hands-on cards. Beans and cups, floor tape and a soft toy, beads on a string. These cost no screen time and are meant to be done with you.
• Outdoor missions. Work that happens away from the tablet entirely, and still counts.

Ages 7 to 11: quest mode

The same lands, opened as skill trails. A unit is a run of activities; finishing one earns a piece of the castle, stamped with the unit that earned it, and the castle is redrawn with that piece in its own place. The castle describes itself out loud too, so it is not only a picture.

• Quiz battles. A duel against Robo-Rex, who is always exactly one segment behind - so the bar reads as company rather than a race. Rio’s hint is free and taking it costs nothing.
• Maths you can see. Concrete, then pictorial, then abstract: a number is built out of blocks before it is written down.
• Live classrooms. Six children, preset reactions, no chat box. On the Kingdom plan.
• Sibling quests. Two children in the same family working towards one goal, on Royal Family.

Getting something wrong is the useful part

A missed question does not reduce a score, because there is no score to reduce. It becomes a review card, filed under the land it came from and due tomorrow, and the reward screen tells your child a memory was planted. The card comes back on a spacing that widens each time they get it right - and narrows again if they do not.

You can set each subject to Gentle, Standard or Challenge. That changes both which of three written tiers of questions your child is asked and how quickly that subject’s cards come back, and the control on the settings screen says so in those words.

What the day looks like to you

• You set the limits. A daily screen cap and the length of one sitting. When the cap is reached the kingdom winds down and sends your child outside; hands-on cards and outdoor missions carry on costing nothing.
• Coverage, not vibes. A map of what has actually been covered, tagged to the standard it answers to where that tagging exists.
• A question to ask at dinner. One line each week, drawn from what they actually did. Shared celebration, never surveillance.
• A printable record. Attendance, screen minutes and coverage, taken from the work itself - the document to hand to a reviewer.