How it works
From a request to a class reading Keats.
No rollout, no integration and no IT ticket. You set the class up on your phone, print the cards, and the first day opens on the date you choose.
This is the design of the pilot, which opens in January 2027.
- Step 1
You ask
Request a place and tell us about your class. We check every teacher by hand, usually within two working days.
- Step 2
You set the class
Choose the read-along, the start date, your school days and your days off. Each day unlocks on your calendar.
- Step 3
You print the cards
One card per student, with a class code and a QR. Write a name on each and hand them round.
- Step 4
Students join
In the app on an iPhone, or in a browser on a Chromebook or any computer. A code and a name they choose.
- Step 5
They read, then answer
Each day is one text and a short task. They hand it in when they are done.
- Step 6
You mark
Points and a comment, on your phone or at your desk. The mark goes straight back to the student.
The class cards
Where the class becomes real in a room.
Each card carries a class code in type and a QR that opens the app or the browser. Write a name on each, cut along the lines and hand them round.
The code is the student’s key to the class on any device. If a card goes missing, you replace that one code and the old one stops working.
On an iPhone: get The Daily Canon, tap I have a class code.
On a computer: school.thedailycanon.org/class
The pilot design. Details may change before January.
Joining
A code, and a name they choose. That is all we ask.
Try it. Type a code or use the sample: the field tidies what you type, reads an I or an L as a 1, and shows the class back before anyone joins. On a Chromebook or any computer, the same code works in the browser.
I have a class code
Enter the code on your card.
The pilot design. Details may change before January.
A class day
Read the text, answer the task, hand it in.
Play both sides. Answer as the student and hand it in, then switch to the teacher and mark it. Written answers stay open until you mark them. The quick check locks when it is handed in and marks itself.
Today
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats · 1819 · a two-minute read
Your task
Due tomorrow · 10 points1. The speaker calls the urn a "Sylvan historian". What kind of history can an object with no words tell?
2. Choose one figure on the urn. Why might being fixed in that moment be a gift, and why a loss?
A quick check
The "unheard" melodies are sweeter because
The lover never reaches the kiss. He should not grieve, the poem says, because
The little town is empty because its people
The pilot design. Details may change before January.
Your register
Who has read what, day by day.
Every student and every day at a glance, with the work waiting to be marked. Reading time is there if you want it, as a rough band and nothing finer.
| Student | Day 1Psyche | Day 2Nightingale | Day 3Grecian Urn | Day 4Melancholy | Day 5Indolence | Day 6To Autumn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badger | Marked | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Opens later | Opens later |
| Bramble | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Read | Opens later | Opens later |
| Foxglove | Marked | Marked | Marked | Read | Opens later | Opens later |
| Inkcap | Marked | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Opens later | Opens later |
| Kestrel | Marked | Late | Not yet | Not yet | Opens later | Opens later |
| Linnet | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Handed in | Opens later | Opens later |
| Marginalia | Marked | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Opens later | Opens later |
| Nightjar | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Read | Opens later | Opens later |
| Quill | Excused | Marked | Marked | Not yet | Opens later | Opens later |
| Sorrel | Marked | Marked | Marked | Read | Opens later | Opens later |
| Thistle | Marked | Marked | Late | Not yet | Opens later | Opens later |
| Wren | Marked | Marked | Marked | Handed in | Opens later | Opens later |
Reading time is shown only as a band, only to you, and never to the class. It comes from the app’s own clock, so treat it as a rough guide. The names are the ones students chose; only you know who is who.
The pilot design. Details may change before January.
At your desk
Mark on a big screen, approved from your phone.
The teacher portal opens on your computer when you approve it from your phone with Face ID. Mark, write the class note, edit the tasks and read the register there.
Codes, removing a student and erasing the class stay on your phone, so a browser left open in a classroom can never do them.
When the class ends
A laurel for the class, and the marks are yours.
When everyone has read every day, the whole class earns a laurel together. The texts stay open to the class, marking stays open for you, and you can export every mark from the app as a spreadsheet.
You can erase the class whenever you choose. If you do not, it erases itself twelve months after it ends, and we warn you a month before.