The Daily Canon for schools · Pilot opens January 2027
A great text a day for your class, and work you can mark.
Set a short read-along for your class. Each school day opens one text, ends in a short task, and comes back to you to mark. The first is The Odes of Keats: six odes, six days.
Free for one class for the pilot term. Nothing to pay.
read one thing well, together
Why set it
A reading app is easy to recommend and hard to set. Nothing a student does in one can be handed in, so it ends up as a suggestion for the keen few.
The class read-along changes that. You choose the days. Every student reads the same text on the same day, answers the same questions, and hands the work in to you. You mark it, and your comment arrives in their app beside what they wrote.
What your students get
- One text a dayThe day’s text opens on your school days, in the app on an iPhone or in any browser.
- A short taskTwo or three questions and a quick check at the end of each day, handed in when they are done.
- Their marks, back in the appPoints and your comment, beside what they wrote, seen by them alone.
- A laurel for the whole classEarned together, once everyone in the class has read every day.
What you get
- The registerWho has read, handed in or fallen behind, day by day, at a glance.
- Class cards to printOne card per student, with a code and a QR. Nobody needs an email address.
- Your calendarYour school days and your days off, with a pause for when the timetable changes.
- What the class noticedThe lines they noted most and the answers most often wrong, ready for the next lesson.
The first read-along
The Odes of Keats, in six school days.
Keats wrote his great odes in 1819. The class reads one a day, in the order he wrote them. Each takes a minute or two to read, which leaves the lesson for the questions.
Every day comes with a task we have written and checked, and every task is yours to change. More read-alongs follow once the pilot is done.
- Day 1Ode to Psyche
- Day 2Ode to a Nightingale
- Day 3Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Day 4Ode on Melancholy
- Day 5Ode on Indolence
- Day 6To Autumn
From a request to a class reading Keats.
Request a place
Tell us about your class. We check every teacher by hand.
Set up the class
Pick the start date and your school days. We help with the rest.
Print the cards
One per student. They type the code, or scan it.
Read, hand in, mark
The register fills as they go, and your marks go straight back.
Safeguarding
The first question every school asks. So we answer it first.
A student who joins with a card gives us a code and a name they choose, and nothing else. We never ask them for an email address, a surname or a date of birth, because the safest data is the data you never hold.
Read the detail- No email, surname or date of birth from students who join with a card
- No AI chat, and no AI reads their work
- Nothing to buy, ever, inside a class
- No ads, and no advertising trackers
- Erase a class whenever you choose
Try it with one class this January.
The pilot is one class, for one term, at no cost. We set it up with you, check in every week, and fix what does not work while it is running. Nothing to pay, no payment details, and nothing that rolls into a subscription.
Request a place in the pilot