A small team in Melbourne, building the practice tool we wish we'd had.
Study Canvas started with a simple frustration: senior-school maths is decided on paper, but every digital practice tool tries to drag you off the page. So we built one that doesn't.
Turn private practice into useful practice.
Most students lose marks not because they can't do the maths, but because nobody has ever shown them — line by line — where their working drifts from a canonical answer. A teacher with thirty students can't sit next to each of them for every practice question. We thought a tool could.
Study Canvas is built around one idea: that handwriting on paper is not a limitation to work around, but the actual thing being taught. The product reads what you write, in the order you wrote it, and gives back feedback you can act on before the next attempt.
Four things that shape every decision.
The page is the medium.
Senior maths is developed on paper. A practice tool that pulls you off the page is teaching the wrong habit.
Feedback should be specific.
‘Try again’ is not feedback. Real feedback names the line, the step, and the canonical move that was missed.
Tied to the study design.
Questions and feedback are anchored to the appropriate study design. Practice should map to what you're actually examined on.
No dark patterns.
No streak shaming, no notification spam, no public scores. We build something we'd be happy for our own kids to use.
One person, ex-senior Mathematics and Physics teacher
We're deliberately small. Every line of code and every canonical solution is proofed by someone on this list.
Chris
Founder, Engineer, Educator, ProoferFormer Senior Mathematics and Physics teacher turned Software Engineer. Spent six years teaching and marking assessments while watching students lose marks for things nobody had ever explicitly told them. Builds both the application and the question side of the product.
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