This is the single Day-One guide for the 2026–27 school year. It connects secure sign-in, your course, dashboard, Avatar Lab, Learning Arcade, Assessment Center, and help without forcing every tutorial onto one crowded screen.
Before the first problem, we set the foundation — The Mental Picture Strategy. It's borrowed from aviation: in the clouds a pilot's gut lies, so pilots build a mental picture of the aircraft and trust their instruments, not their instinct. Learning works the same way. Every subject has a "gut trap" — the tempting-but-wrong move — and a clear mental picture is how we override it.
Everything starts from the top menu. Here's what each part is for:
Math is taught in modules (Module 1, Module 2…), not chapters. Each module page has a short visual lab, interactive practice, a foundations on-ramp if you need a refresher, and a reference sheet.
The Learning Arcade turns math practice into games — solo and live-multiplayer (played together on the classroom projector).
Before your first round of any game, tap 📖 How to Play. Each one now has a full walkthrough: the goal, how a question works, scoring, power-ups, and strategy tips. You'll never be dropped in without knowing the rules.
Every scholar can build and save a free starter character in the Avatar Lab. Progressively earned tiers add more options; VIP status is still earned and is not granted merely for creating a starter avatar.
This is where you take the quizzes and tests Dr. Ijezie assigns. It's separate from the practice games on purpose — practice questions and test questions never overlap, so a test is always a fair, fresh check of what you know.
The portal opens in Daybreak, the bright daytime look. The sun / moon toggle in the top-right corner flips it to the dark Mathematical Vision theme. Your choice sticks, and it changes nothing about your questions or your score — only the lighting.
The welcome bar also carries your identity across from the teaching site: your equipped avatar plus "Traveling as <your alias> · Level N." Same scholar, same journey, both places.
Look at the middle of the right edge: your equipped pet is perched on a glowing ✦ ASSIST handle. Tap it and it opens your toolkit:
Notes don't appear on a test by accident. In Note Studio on this site, open a note and use Connect to class to tag its course, module, topic, and lesson. Then Request assessment-use approval. Dr. Ijezie reviews it and, if approved, freezes a copy — that frozen copy is what shows up read-only in 📓 My Notes during a matching assessment.
If your teacher (or your IEP / 504 plan) grants a support, it follows you into every assessment automatically — no asking, no announcing it to the room:
When scores are released you'll see your results. From there you can request a retake or a regrade on a written question — both are requests. Dr. Ijezie reviews them; nothing changes until he does, and you'll get the answer as a notification the next time you sign in (including note approvals or declines, with the reason and a fix-it link).
Your dashboard is your command center — and the heart of it is 📈 My Progress. There used to be a scatter of separate tabs; there is now one view. (If you're looking for "My Submissions," it lives here too — it was folded in.)
The rest of the dashboard is still yours too: your arcade and game records, your notes, the Practice Gym, and the Mental Picture traps you've defused.
Help is built into everything. Here's where to look:
You have your own way in. The Family Hub menu has everything you need to follow along.
Use the Family Onboarding page when Dr. Ijezie assigns it. The onboarding steps may include enrollment consent and syllabus acknowledgment. Creating a separate guardian viewing account is optional and never changes a scholar's grade.