One hour a week turns your class into confident, fast, safe computer users — typing, files, shortcuts, email, spreadsheets, presentations, coding, video editing… all the way to the command line.
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Founding-classroom pilots are invite-only · wiz.kids
Not names. Not emails. Not birthdays. Not from students — and not from teachers either. Not even hashed.
Teachers create a class
and get a short class code, like MAPLE-42
Kids get animal names
BlueTiger42 logs in with a picture password — the paper list matching animals to children stays with the teacher, never with us
Progress follows them
any classroom computer, any day — no accounts to manage, no data to protect
Nothing to consent over. Nothing to breach. Nothing to review.
Designed so you can start this afternoon.
• No third-party trackers, analytics, ad tech, or social embeds — on this page or in the app.
• No external CDNs or fonts at runtime; everything served from wiz.kids (AWS CloudFront).
• Domains to allowlist: wiz.kids and subdomains. Works fully on Chromebooks.
• Student records are pseudonymous seat data (animal name, skill progress). Teachers hold the only roster. Deletion is teacher-initiated and immediate.
• Passwords hashed server-side; teacher accounts recover via one-time printed codes — no email in the system to phish.
• Hold us to it: run our own 11-question privacy checklist against our policy.
• The full reasoning: why zero-PII and how the architecture works.
Skills unlock like a quest map: 170 lessons across 21 realms and growing, each taught in-story and tested by doing — in simulated apps where mistakes are safe. Try any of it right now → Or see it mapped to your curriculum ↓
Meet the Machine
mouse fluency, right-click, drag, what's inside the box — and taming the school printer the research →
Typing Temple
touch typing from home row to punctuation and speed scrolls the research →
First Spells
copy, cut, paste, undo — then the dancing cursor: whole edits without touching the mouse the research →
The Scriptorium
documents: formatting, headings & lists, find — and replace-all in one move (Ctrl+F!), saving the research →
File Forest
folders, file types, the Downloads mystery — and carrying armfuls with multi-select the research →
The Storyteller's Stage
slides done right: less words, more magic — and you present to finish the research →
Owl Post Office
email done right: reply vs reply-all, forwarding, attachments, subjects that say the thing, search-not-scroll, spotting fakes the research →
The Oracle
search: asking with the right words, judging who paid for the top spot, researching across pages and tabs the research →
The Portal Halls
a real browser: addresses, links, search, tab juggling and tab hygiene — ads, cookie gates and all the research →
The Hall of Mirrors
fake images and screenshots, stale news, machine-written text, checking claims against a second source — and AI as a helper, never a boss the research →
The Counting House
spreadsheets: formulas, sorting, charts, SUM and AVERAGE, IF, percentages and the choosy COUNTIF — capped by real ledgers: a bake sale, a class pet — and running the whole school fair across five apps the research →
Wizard Safety
secrets stay secret, signing out on shared computers, cookie popups decoded, kindness online, resting the wand the research →
When Magic Breaks
troubleshooting: the frozen app, is-it-just-me detective work, the ladder of fixes, reading errors and searching their exact words the research →
The Wizard's Console
the command line as a treasure hunt — Tab completion, ↑ history, * wildcards and | pipes, the moves that make it fast the research →
The Charm Forge
first programming: blocks, counting loops and walk-until-blocked, programs that ask you mid-run, gem harvests — and charms that sense and decide for themselves the research →
The Loom
write real HTML, then link page to page — not a page anymore, a website
The Rune Scribe
draw runes with code — loops make squares, variables make spirals, and named runes are your first functions
The Unseen Roads
how the internet actually works: addresses, messages chopped into packets — and the web that heals around a cut cable
The Cipher Vault
data itself: symbols and agreed codes, why computers speak in on/off — and reading real binary by lantern-light
The Flicker House
video & sound: trim the boring bits, arrange the story, tame the volume — then press play
The Whisper Circle
group-chat wisdom before the first phone: when to reply, when to mute, teamwork in a project chat, leaving well — and what's carved in stone forever the research →
Wherever you teach, the mapping is public, specific, and honest about gaps — no "aligns with standards" hand-waving.
🇦🇺Australia
The ACARA Digital Technologies curriculum, mapped realm by realm — including what we don't cover. Victorian schools teach the Victorian Curriculum 2.0, not ACARA — mapped separately, gaps and all. Plus the compliance side: the Privacy Act, APPs, ST4S and eSafety, explained for schools.
🏴England
Every KS1 & KS2 computing aim in plain English, with an honest map of where each is taught — and the aims that need a classroom, not an app.
🇺🇸United States
Mapped against the CSTA K–12 standards and the ISTE student standards — plus COPPA for schools, in plain language.
🌍Scotland · Ireland · NZ
Scotland's CfE Technologies organisers, Ireland's curriculum in transition, and New Zealand's Digital Technologies progress outcomes — each mapped with the same honesty about gaps.
Everything in Wiz Kids traces back to research, and the Learn library is where we prove it: a hundred-plus evidence-graded, fully cited articles for educators — including the myths we refuse to build on and the things the evidence doesn't say.
Spaced repetition: the most reliable finding in learning science
140 years of evidence for why practice spread over days beats cramming — and how our review queue applies it.
The digital native myth
Why growing up with screens doesn't teach computer skills — the international evidence behind this entire curriculum.
Does gamification actually work?
The honest evidence review — what game mechanics do for learning, what they don't, and the line between motivating and manipulating.
How to read an edtech privacy policy
The eleven questions that expose what a policy actually says. Run them on every vendor. Including us.
Talking with children about online life
The research-backed scripts for parents — why the open channel predicts safety better than any filter or rule.
Screen time: an honest review
What the evidence actually shows about screens and children — smaller and more specific than the headlines on either side.
Every skill is assessed by real performance in the app — the teacher dashboard shows exactly who has mastered what, with evidence.
Create your class
two minutes, no student data entry — ever
Print the roster slips
each child gets an animal name and a picture password
One hour a week
the map, the lessons, and the review queue do the rest
🔮 Spaced repetition, in kid language
Skills fade unless practiced at the right moment — so every session opens with a five-minute "do you still remember…?" that brings each spell back just as it starts to fade. Skills that survive the schedule turn gold: mastered, with the retention to prove it. It's the same evidence-based method behind serious language learning, tuned for a once-a-week classroom. The evidence · why mastery, not hours · what one hour a week really buys
And a detail most products can't claim: reviews never re-serve the task that taught the skill. Every skill is re-tested on a fresh variant — a new maze, a new inbox, a new ledger — so a gold star certifies remembering the skill, not recognising the question. Kids can't memorise their way past our reviews, which means the dashboard you read is telling you the truth. Why reviews work this way
Stars for doing it, extra stars for doing it efficiently, sparks to spend on charms for their animal familiar. And the rules we hold ourselves to: no purchases of any kind, no leaderboards ranking children, streaks that forgive missed days, and a daily soft cap — because a curriculum that teaches healthy screen habits should practice them. We published the line we won't cross →
Wiz Kids needs a physical keyboard and a mouse or trackpad — because that's the skill. School Chromebooks are perfect. Any modern browser works. Tablets get a limited review mode, but the real lessons live where Ctrl+C lives. We've written up why →
Most primary schools assembling this coverage end up running two or three single-subject subscriptions — separate logins, separate budget lines, separate privacy reviews — and still nobody teaches the everyday skills in between.
The typing program
home row to speed scrolls, accuracy-first, spaced reviews built in
The coding platform
blocks through loops, conditionals, input and first functions — every construct provably required
The online-safety program
phishing, scams, group chats, permanence — practised in simulators, not recited from posters
The curriculum nobody sells
files, email, spreadsheets, search judgment, printing, troubleshooting, the command line — the skills every classroom needs and no single-subject app teaches
💼 For whoever holds the budget
One licence, everything included: every realm, every lesson, the reviews engine, the teacher dashboard, and every new realm we ship. No tiers, no seat mathematics, no add-ons, no per-realm upsells — and no purchases inside the game, ever. Expect it to sit on the budget like one of the subscriptions it replaces, not several — a single line, in the simplest quote tier, with one short privacy review instead of three. Our procurement guide for principals is the standard we expect to be held to.
Do students need email addresses or accounts?
No. A class code, an animal name, and three secret pictures. That's the entire login — and the entire data footprint. (Why picture passwords work.)
What about kids without a computer at home?
Nothing requires home access. The full curriculum fits in classroom time; home practice is a bonus lane, never homework. (The one-hour-a-week math.)
What happens when a child forgets their password?
The teacher clicks 'reset secret' and hands them a new slip. Ten seconds, no support ticket, progress untouched.
Shared classroom computers?
Designed for exactly that. Progress lives on the server; any child can log in on any machine, and a big friendly button switches wizards. (Why sign-out is a taught skill.)
What does it cost?
Final pricing is being settled with our founding classrooms, but the shape is decided: one simple school licence that costs like one of the single-subject subscriptions it replaces — not a stack of them. Everything included, no tiers or add-ons, and never any purchases for children. If you're budgeting, think "one subscription line," and talk to us about founding-classroom terms.
How do I join?
Pilots are invite-only while we work with founding classrooms. Codes come from us directly — if you have one, sign up on the teacher page.