Getting started

Eight tools,
one philosophy.

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 use
START IN MINUTES No framework needed. Value in your first sitting. Topic Explorer Break down any topic for planning or classroom use — interactive maps and quizzes Waypoints Present Markdown in, classroom slides out. No sign-up, no lock-in SEE THE CURRICULUM The reference layer everything else builds on. ACARA Progressions The full shape of ACARA v9, F–10. Waypoints, width, and progression at every stage MYP Explorer All 8 MYP subject groups, navigated through concept-driven progression PLAN A WHOLE UNIT The deep end — one shared path for every class. Waypoints Planner Plan a unit around shared waypoints — lesson plans, resources, glossaries, slides and student views, all from one sequence AROUND YOUR CLASSROOM Companions for during, after and between lessons. Signal Live student confidence check-ins during class Insight What students actually understood, after class Audio Study audio, one episode per waypoint
Start in minutes

These 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 slide deck for a specific lesson? Start with Present.

Topic Explorer

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 Explorer

Waypoints Present

When you know what you're teaching and need a deck for it. Describe your lesson content and Present builds a prompt that generates the slides — or paste Markdown directly if you have it. Edit live with a slide-by-slide preview, share a deck as a single link, and export a snapshot to PowerPoint if you need to. No accounts, no lock-in.

Load the sample deck to see how it feels, then try the Generate tab with a lesson of your own.

Open Present
See the curriculum

The 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.

ACARA Progressions

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 Progressions

MYP Explorer

Navigate 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 Explorer
Plan a whole unit

When 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.

Waypoints Planner

Pick your subject and standards, review the waypoint sequence, and generate a complete unit from it: lesson plans, a resource checklist, a student glossary, slide decks for Present, and student-facing lesson cards ready to 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 Planner
Around your classroom

Companions that fit around lessons rather than replacing anything. Each one stands alone, but they get sharper when they share your unit's waypoints.

Signal

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 Signal

Insight

After 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 Insight

Audio

Study 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 Audio

One pattern, everywhere

The tool builds a prompt You paste it into your AI You paste the result back

Every 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 idea behind it

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. Present builds slides 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.

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