Learning Waypoints is a free suite of curriculum tools for Australian educators. Every tool works on its own, so you can pick whichever solves the problem in front of you. The one underlying idea they share is that classes should stay on one dependency-ordered path, with width, not acceleration, as the lever when pace differs. The more tools you use, the more they complement each other.
Start with any tool · No account required · Free to useThese two work with nothing but what you bring. Need to see the shape of a topic — for your own planning or to explore with students? Start with Topic Explorer. Need a deck or a worksheet for a specific lesson? Start with Prepare.
Type any topic and Topic Explorer builds you a prompt. Paste it into whatever AI you already use, paste the result back, and you have a structured topic map — clusters, nodes, quizzes, matching activities. Use it for your own planning first: five minutes and you can see the conceptual terrain before you've written a lesson. Then take the same map into class — project it, explore it together, or generate a coaching prompt that lets students work through it with an AI that stays within the boundaries you set.
Type a topic you're teaching next term, even one you haven't taught before. Ten minutes, start to finish.
Open Topic ExplorerWhen you know what you're teaching and need the material for it. Prepare has two sides.
Present: describe your lesson and Prepare writes you a prompt that generates the deck. Paste the result back and edit it with the slides showing beside you as you type. Send a deck to someone as a link, or export it to PowerPoint if you'd rather present from there.
Print: the same text, laid out as a worksheet instead, with lines for students to write on, boxes, blanks to fill in, and notes that appear on your copy but not theirs. You can mark part of a sheet as extra, so a class that's ready for more gets it from the same worksheet as everyone else. Print it, or copy it into Google Docs, Word, OneNote, Schoolbox, or anywhere else that takes formatted text.
Either side, you can work on a whole set at once rather than one file at a time: add each deck or worksheet as you finish it, regenerate and replace any of them, then download the set together.
Load the sample to see how it feels, then try the Generate tab with a lesson of your own.
Open PrepareThe reference layer the suite builds on. Browse the full structure of your curriculum and see how waypoints, width, and progression work before you plan anything.
Visualise the full shape of ACARA v9 across subjects and year levels. See the conceptual progression behind each standard, explore the width available at every stage, and understand how waypoints are structured before using them in the Planner.
Pick a subject and year level you know well. Open a standard and look at how the waypoints break it down.
Open ACARA ProgressionsNavigate all eight MYP subject groups through the lens of concept-driven progression. See how phases, criteria, and year-level expectations connect across the framework.
Choose a subject group you teach and explore its progression wheel.
Open MYP ExplorerWhen you're ready to go deeper. The Planner works with the waypoint sequences you can explore in ACARA Progressions and MYP Explorer, and turns them into a complete unit.
Pick your subject and standards, review the waypoint sequence, and generate a complete unit from it: lesson plans, a plan of the resources each lesson needs, a student glossary, decks and handouts ready for Prepare, and student-facing lesson cards you can paste into your LMS. Everything derives from the one sequence, so it stays coherent.
Pick a standard you explored in ACARA Progressions and open the Planner with it.
Open PlannerCompanions that fit around lessons rather than replacing anything. Each one stands alone, but they get sharper when they share your unit's waypoints.
Students check in on their confidence at each waypoint — before, during, or after a lesson — and you see where every class stands in real time. No student accounts; they just enter a class code.
Generate a session and put the code on the board. Students join instantly.
Open SignalAfter students work through a Topic Explorer session, export the summary and Insight classifies their thinking: what's on track, what's a misconception, what's genuinely novel — and which misconceptions deserve whole-class attention tomorrow.
Run a Topic Explorer coaching session first, then bring its summary to Insight.
Open InsightStudy audio that actually follows your curriculum: one episode per waypoint, each in the teaching mode that fits — explanation, worked example, two experts debating, recall practice. Generated in your browser, exportable as MP3s.
Best explored after you've seen waypoints in the Planner or ACARA Progressions. The episodes map to them directly.
Open AudioEvery generating tool in the suite works the same way, and it's a deliberate choice, not a limitation. Your content never touches our servers — there are no accounts, nothing is stored, and you use whichever AI your school already trusts. The tools' job is to build you a much better prompt than you'd write by hand: one that knows the curriculum, the structure, and the format the tool expects back.
Once you've done it in one tool, you've done it in all of them.
The thing that connects every tool is a shared idea: a waypoint, one step on the dependency-ordered path through a topic. The Planner sequences waypoints for a unit. Prepare builds the slides and handouts for them. Signal checks confidence on them. Insight classifies thinking against them. Audio narrates them. Because every tool speaks the same language, work you do in one carries into the others.