The Teacher's Handbook

☰Where they are

Open the menu and the four items sit together, right under Game Mode.

1. Open the menu

   Tap the three-line button at the top right, then any of the four ringed items. A locked item shows a padlock: that account needs Pro.

   

📊My Progress

A record of every finished session, updated the moment it ends. Reading Level and the skills breakdown are Pro; the rest is on every account — but it only ever shows your own practice. For a student's, open it together on their device, or read My Students: Last Activity, Checkpoint result and assignment scores.

1. The summary

   Six figures: Reading Level out of 10, first-try accuracy, total questions, sessions, day streak and average response time, plus one line of advice on what's next.

   

2. Your reading skills

   Three groups — Intervals, Guide Notes, Chord Inversions. Tap one for a bar per interval size, landmark or inversion (needs 5+ first-try answers to count).

   

3. Progress over time

   One chart per mode, one bar per practice day, switching between Accuracy, Response time and, once unlocked, ⚡ App score. Tap a bar for the exact figure and date; below is a worst-first table and a day-by-day log.

   

🏆Weekly Challenge

One fixed, server-graded question set each week, identical for everyone, one attempt Monday to Sunday. The format rotates through four: Sprint (2 minutes, most correct wins), Speed 30 (30 questions, fastest time: a wrong answer adds 5 seconds and, from 12/10/2026, a right one takes 1 second off, shown beside the clock), Sudden Death (first mistake or 10 minutes ends it) and The Full Sweep (40 questions across everything taught).

1. Read the rules, then Start

   The first open each week shows this card. Nothing starts until you tap Start — that's your one run for the week.

   

2. Play it

   Looks like normal practice, clock/streak/count along the top. Only the first tap counts — no retries here.

   

3. Your result

   Ask students to play early in the week, not Sunday night. A low Sudden Death streak usually points at one interval size — My Progress shows which.

   

🎯Ranked Practice

Ordinary practice that counts: 1 point per correct answer toward the week's leaderboard, plus a bonus for 75%+ or 90%+ sessions. Capped at 60/day, so steady daily practice beats one big cram — the behaviour you want anyway.

1. Pick a mode

   Chain, Guide Notes, Find the Start or Chord Inversions, 20 questions each.

   

2. Answer 20 questions

   Same screen as the Weekly Challenge. Points bank only when question 20 is answered. Closed early? Pick the same mode again the same day to carry on where you stopped, or tap Resume on Home.

   

🥇Leaderboard

Exactly what your students see, minus the name box: your roster ranked by points or challenge result on the Ranked side, and by App score points on the ⚡ App score side. You're never listed. Needs 4+ scoring players to show a ranking.

1. Your studio’s board

   The Practice points tab, ranked by this week’s Ranked Practice.

   

2. This week’s challenge

   The second tab ranks the Weekly Challenge, in that format’s own units.

   

⚡App score

A reward for students who have finished the path. It unlocks once a Pro student has passed all seven Game Mode levels, practised 5 hours or answered 2,500 questions, and reached a Reading Level of 8.5. Until then, students see a countdown on Home with a preview of what theyand reached a Reading Level of 8.5. They choose whether to switch it on.

rsquo;ll unlock. Once there, they choose whether to switch it on.

1. Points for speed

   A clock runs on every practice question, in the top-left of the staff. A right first answer scores by speed (see the table below, where most modes means 5-Note Range, Chain, Guide Notes and Chord Inversions); a wrong first try or Show Answer scores 0. Checkpoint, the Challenge tab and mistake reviews never score.

2. What students see

   Their points beside the timer, a session total, this week against last week on Home, an App score tab in My Progress, and their best session per mode, kept each week.

   

3. What you see

   The Leaderboard’s ⚡ App score side ranks your studio on this week’s points, with the same name rules as the Ranked side. Only students who have switched it on are listed.

   

🏠Your students’ Home screen

Students land on Home after signing in. Worth a look together in the first lesson.

1. Jump to and today’s goal

   Big buttons for Practice, Game Mode, My Progress and Assignments, and a ring that fills toward a daily goal of 10, 20, 30 or 40 questions.

2. Streaks and quests

   Badges at 3, 7, 14, 30, 50, 100, 200 and 365 days in a row, and a Daily Quest: the next Game Mode level, then two tasks from their weakest areas.

3. Reminders

   Students who tap Enable notifications on their account page get a reminder at 6pm their time on days they haven’t practised, to keep their streak going, and a push the moment you assign something. On iPhone or iPad they add Interval Hero to the Home Screen first.

🏆Checkpoints

A short mixed assessment the app schedules automatically: 50 questions in 18 minutes, one attempt, drawn from the three skills that matter most for reading at the piano. Pro-only, not pass-or-fail, and the score comes straight to your roster — think of it as a term test the app sets for you.

When one comes up. The first unlocks once a sub-level is passed in each of Guide Notes, Play the Note and Chord Inversions. After that, every 5 further sub-levels — or every 5 sessions once Game Mode is finished. Questions are always set at the hardest sub-level passed, so it's always on material actually learned.

1. The announcement

   Appears on Home when a Checkpoint becomes available. Let me practice more puts it off with no penalty.

   

2. The Home card

   Shows what's needed before the first one, or how long until the next. When ready, tap Start Checkpoint.

   

3. Taking it

   13 Guide Notes, 10 Find the Start, 13 Chord Inversions, then 14 Play the Note questions, one 18-minute clock. Each section starts on a clean staff, the numbering carries on, and the question you’re on is the blue note. Only the first answer counts, and the score is kept whether time runs out or not.

   

4. What you see

   The roster’s Checkpoint column: latest score and date, green from 80%, amber from 50%, red below. Compare with My Progress to see which skill dragged the score down.

   

🏅Ranks

Every account has a rank, from 🌱 Interval Rookie to 👑 Interval Maestro — a live standing, not a trophy, recalculated from lifetime accuracy, questions answered and streak, so it can drop as well as climb. Unlocks once Levels 1–3 are passed.

1. The badge

   Sits in the header next to the app name once unlocked. Tap it to open the ladder.

   

2. The ladder

   All five tiers, current one highlighted, with the exact numbers still needed for the next: green if met, red if not.

   

3. On your roster

   Each student’s rank sits under their name on My Students — who's climbing, who's stalled, at a glance.

   

⚙Opening it

Tap Settings in the header, between the menu button and the theme toggle. Tap again, or anywhere outside, to close it — or press S on a keyboard.

1. The Settings button

   Always in the header, in every mode. It lights up while the panel is open.

   

🎵What the panel shows in each mode

The top changes per mode; Playback, Difficulty and Display at the bottom stay the same everywhere.

1. 5-Note Range

   Clef: treble or bass. Starting Note: Random or a fixed landmark. Session Length: 10, 20, 50 or Unlimited.

   

2. Chain

   Interval Range sets the smallest/largest interval (default Unison–5th); Direction limits jumps to Up, Down or Both. Same two controls apply in Play the Note when using Chain.

   

3. Chord Inversions

   Chord Type switches triads to 7th chords (adds a 3rd inversion). Guide Notes has no controls of its own beyond Session Length.

   

4. The shared controls

   Playback: untick Play sound to silence auto-play and the ▶ button — clicking a note on the staff still plays it, since that's a deliberate check, not the app giving away the answer. Difficulty: Adaptive asks more of the sizes a student gets wrong most. Display: untick Show notes on staff to answer from sound alone (needs Play sound on) — a reading drill becomes ear training.

   

✅Apply and Cancel

A changed control doesn't take effect until Apply, which only lights up once something's changed.

1. Change, then Apply

   Tap Apply: the panel closes and a fresh session starts on the new settings. On Challenge, Apply just sets the values — press Start when ready.

   

2. Or Cancel

   Reverts every control and leaves the current session untouched. Tapping outside with unapplied changes asks first, so a stray tap can't lose or apply them by accident.

   

During a timed run (Challenge or Checkpoint), Apply stays off until you finish or end it.