What's New
The updates worth knowing about — new ways to study, classroom tools for teachers, and improvements to how study guides are built. Smaller fixes ship most weeks and aren't all listed here.
- Students
Star your favorite games
Tap the star on any game to keep it at the top of a guide's game list, A to Z. Pick up to five. Advanced Study Games now start folded away, so the games you play most are easier to find, and one tap opens them.
- TeachersParents
See how well a guide covers your notes
Teachers and parents now see Guide Coverage on guides they make, with the topics a guide may have skipped. The Assign sheet warns before a guide that may be missing topics goes to a class, and progress reports now say when a guide was made from a topic, covers only the start of a long upload, or has items the notes did not back.
- ParentsTeachersStudents
Privacy and safety, in plain words
The Privacy page now opens with a short summary: no ads or data sales, your content is not used to train AI, what parents and teachers can and cannot see, how your data is stored, and how to delete it all. Each line links to the full detail.
- Students
Your classes, all in one place on Home
Home now has one My Classes card: each class with what is due, your next test and the newest thing your teacher or a parent set up, with a dot until you open it. It replaces the separate Homework and What's Happening cards, so Home is shorter and easier to scan.
Open My Classes → - ParentsTeachers
Parents and teachers hear about the things that matter
When a teacher posts a message to a class, the parents linked to each student now get it too, and when a teacher records or confirms a grade, the linked parent hears about it. Teachers are told when a student logs a grade that is waiting for their confirmation. They all appear in the For You section on Home.
- StudentsParentsTeachers
Messages in one place on Home
Notices, announcements, your streak, the question about how a test went, and personal notes from the team now gather in one For You section on Home, newest first. Two show at a time, with Show More for the rest, and old messages drop off after a week. The team's notes no longer slide over your screen. Students see it at the top of My Classes; parents above Your Family; teachers above their Classes.
- Students
Ava Analogy: see a term as something you know
Tap a term on a new guide and Ava Analogy compares it to something at your grade level, then tells you where the comparison stops working. Find it in your Study Plan, or tap the Ava Analogy icon beside any concept. Like a sitting with the Study Tutor, it counts toward your study time, study sessions and active days.
- TeachersStudentsParents
Give each class its own look
Teachers can pick a color and an icon for every class when they create it or later in its settings. It shows on the class list, the class page, and on your students' and their parents' class lists, so classes are easy to tell apart at a glance. Skip it and every class still gets its own color.
Open My Classroom → - Everyone
Games and Study Sessions, counted the same everywhere
Games now means the games you play, replays and live class games included. Strengthen, Smart Study, Cram, practice tests, the Daily Quiz and class practice tests are counted as Study Sessions beside them, and every question you answer in either one adds to Questions. Stats, the parent report, the weekly emails, teacher views and the Pulse all use the same numbers now. A same-day repeat is now called a Replay.
See your Stats → - TeachersStudentsParents
New class and share codes are longer and harder to guess
New class codes, study guide share codes and family codes are now 8 characters, shown as two groups of four (like ABCD-EFGH), and skip letters and numbers that look alike. Every code you already have keeps working, and you can type a code with or without the dash, in capitals or not.
- TeachersStudentsParents
Refreshing a guide no longer takes it offline
When you update a guide from new files, everyone can keep studying the current version while the new one is built. If the refresh does not work out, nothing changes. Concepts the new material still covers keep their progress.
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Home is simpler: Getting Set Up and Challenges
Home now has two clear cards instead of several that overlapped. Getting Set Up is a short list of first steps for your role, with small welcome coins, and it goes away when you finish. Challenges are optional one-time goals that pay more, and you can hide them in Settings. Daily missions are now only things you can do again every day, and the Daily Challenge is now called the Daily Quiz.
Open Home → - Parents
A gentle reminder to look in on your learner
If you have not opened your child's report in about two weeks, you may get one short note: "See how your child is doing this week." It comes as a push notification, or as an email to your guardian address if no push was delivered. You will get at most one a month, and none once you have been away for about three months. Turn it off with Re-Engagement in Settings.
- ParentsStudents
Parents see when a topic is mastered
When a student gets every concept of a study guide (five or more) to Mastered, it shows up in their Updates, and a parent sees it on their child's Home card for the next week.
Open Home → - StudentsParents
Study time counts all of your studying
Time studied now includes Smart Study and Strengthen rounds, Practice Tests, live games, Study Tutor chats and crossword work, not only finished games, on My Stats, the weekly emails and your parent's report. A Practice Test or a bit of crossword work now keeps your streak going too. Reading or editing a study guide counts as study time and a day of activity as well, when the page is open and you are actually using it, though it does not move your streak.
See My Stats → - TeachersStudentsParents
Archived classes keep their history
When a teacher archives a class, its assignments pause and its join code stops working. Students and parents keep their grades and history, and the teacher can restore the class any time. Deleting a class now needs archiving it first.
What Archiving Does → - Parents
Your Home card shows what matters
Each child's card on Home now shows how many of the last 7 days they were active, in place of the streak. Tap the card to open the full report, or tap a row on it to jump to What's Due or Updates.
Open Home → - Students
Progress is now My Stats
The bottom tab and the page now read Stats. Time studied is counted the same way your parent sees it, so the two numbers match.
See My Stats → - Parents
A clearer report for parents
Each child report now shows All Time and This Week side by side, with active days and questions answered, an Updates card for new guides, due dates and grades, and a link from each class to that class page.
- StudentsTeachersParents
Put your pages in order before you upload
Pages are read in the order you add them, so numbered questions and long answers stay together. Use Move Up and Move Down to fix the order.
- TeachersStudentsParents
Teachers can record a real test grade
After a test, a teacher can record the grade a student got for a guide assigned to their class, from the student page or the gradebook. The student and their linked parent see it, labeled as entered by the teacher, and it sits next to how much the student practiced first. It never changes mastery, coins or assignments, and a teacher only ever sees the grades they entered themselves, not ones a student logs on their own.
- StudentsParentsTeachers
One test grade, the same everywhere
Each guide now has one real-test grade, and a student, a linked parent and the teacher all see it the same way: on the guide, the class page and the report, labeled as self-reported, entered by a parent, or entered by the teacher. A teacher can Confirm a grade a student typed in, and a teacher's entry replaces any other. Otherwise, the one who entered a grade is the one who changes it.
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Parents can record a real test grade
A parent can record the grade their child got on a real test, for any of the child's guides, from the child's report. It helps most for a younger child who cannot log it. The child sees it labeled as entered by a parent and cannot change it, the grade sits next to how much they practiced first, and their teacher can see it. It never changes mastery, coins or assignments.
- Students
Break reminders after long study stretches
If you have been playing for a good while without stopping, the results screen now gives you a quiet nudge to take a short break. It shows at most once a day and never gets in the way. Also, the study time on My Stats now counts the same way your parent sees it, so the two always match.
See My Stats → - TeachersStudentsParents
Teachers can set a test date
When you set up a guide for a class, you can now add a test date next to the due date, or on its own. It is not homework, so nothing is late because of it. Students count down to it, see how ready they are, and get a note in Updates when it is set or moved, and parents see it too.
- StudentsParents
Your classes, all in one place
Students now have My Classes: each class with its guides, what is due and a short Updates list of what changed, like a guide assigned, a due date, or a test grade. Parents get Classes, with the same view for each linked child. On the Guides page, guides are now grouped by class, with My Own for the ones you made yourself. Homework rows now say what it takes to turn an assignment in, like Needs 3 Games at 70%, and mark a new assignment with the teacher it is from. Homework and tests now share one What's Due list on each class and on a parent's report.
- Students
No notes yet? Type a topic
You do not need notes to get started. On Home and when you paste, you will now see that you can type a topic, like Causes of the American Revolution, and AvaStudy builds a study guide from it. A guide made from a topic is written by AI rather than from your own notes, so check important facts against your class materials.
Build a Guide → - Students
Teaching your pet now counts toward mastery
When you explain a concept well to your pet in Pet Professor, it now counts as a correct answer on that concept in your own progress, the same as getting it right in a game. A partly right or missed explanation never counts against you.
Pick a Guide → - Students
Home now suggests what to do next
The top of Home picks the one thing worth doing right now: homework that is due, a test coming up, or concepts that are ready for a refresher, with a short reason why. Tap Practice Now to start. The concepts you are working on across your guides sit right below it, with a shortcut to the Study Tutor.
Open Home → - StudentsParentsTeachers
Leaving a class no longer erases your progress
When you leave a class (or a teacher removes you), your progress on the class guides is saved to your own private archive and comes back automatically if you rejoin. A linked parent keeps seeing it in their report, marked as a guide you left; teachers and guide owners never see it. If you also joined a guide with its own share code, you keep it when you leave the class, and removing a shared guide from your list lets you choose between keeping or deleting your saved progress. Teachers keep a simple record of former students (name, when they left, and assignment results) that never includes your scores, mastery or chats.
- Parents
A second parent can follow your child
On the Family plan, a second parent or guardian can link to the same child, each with their own code from the child. Both follow the same report, and the child stays covered as long as either parent is on Family. The parent who pays can send an invite code from Home, and your child is told when anyone is added. A child's first parent is still free, and if no parent is on Family the later parent's view pauses until one is.
- Teachers
See which wrong answer your class keeps picking
Assignment reports now show which specific wrong answer students reach for on a concept they missed, not just that they missed it — so you know exactly what to re-teach.
- Parents
A fuller report on your child
Tap your child on your dashboard and the report now shows every assignment and whether it was turned in on time, the tests coming up and how ready they are, the last week of activity with their best streak and latest games, and the concepts they already know alongside the ones that are still tricky.
- Everyone
More time on timed games, and a new badge for Advanced Games
Turn on More Time in Settings to double the clock in Swipe Challenge, Speed Tap and the Practice Test. There is also a new Advanced Explorer badge for trying 10 different Advanced Games, and Completionist now asks for 20 of the 23 games, so it no longer depends on every game opening for your guides.
Open Settings → - Students
Finish a game with no signal and still get your rewards
If your connection drops while you're finishing a game, the round is saved on your device and sent the moment you're back online. The results screen says it's saving, then fills in your coins, bond XP and streak by itself, or a quick note tells you when it lands.
- Students
Tier bonuses now arrive right when you earn them
The one-time coin bonuses for reaching Tier 5 and Tier 15 on the Season Path are paid as soon as the game that earns them ends, and listed on your results screen, instead of waiting in a pop-up on the home screen.
- Parents
More for parents: tests, trends, and heads-ups
Your child's card now shows their streak and any tests coming up, and their report shows this week against last. On a guide you shared with them you can see how they're doing, set their test date, and ask them to log a grade. Turn on Heads-Ups in Settings to get a push and an email if they go quiet for a few days or have a test coming up and aren't ready.
Turn on Heads-Ups → - Students
The Season Path: Magical Kingdom
Studying now earns Season Stars, from correct answers, finished games, perfect runs, and the Daily Challenge (up to 100 a day), that climb a 30-tier Season Path. Tiers unlock coins, Pet Bond boosts, enchanted accessories, a badge, and nine Magical Packs, and Tier 30 awards the exclusive Royal Griffin. Each Magical Pack reveals a collectible pet with the odds shown before you open it, and you can also buy one with coins you earned by studying. Nothing here costs real money, and Season 1 runs through Nov. 30.
See the Season Path → - Teachers
A clearer Monday email for teachers
Your weekly classroom email now shows class readiness with a week-over-week trend, which assignments are overdue or due this week with how many students have turned them in, and a readiness bar for each class. It also fits a phone screen properly.
- ParentsStudents
A fuller, easier-to-read weekly progress email
The weekly email now shows which days were active, how the week compares to the last one, roughly how long was studied, and which guides got the most practice — plus what homework is due soon. It also reads better on a phone.
- StudentsTeachers
Replays now count toward your best score
One unlucky first try no longer sticks. On a class or shared guide, every play now counts toward your best score on the class leaderboard and your teacher's gradebook — so replaying to do better always pays off. Replays still don't earn extra coins, badges, or season stars; those stay with each game's first play of the day.
How Practice Works → - StudentsTeachers
Students hear about new guides, even without a due date
When a teacher adds a study guide to a class, students now get a "New guide" card on their home screen — before, only guides with a due date announced themselves. To avoid a flood when a teacher adds several at once, the push notification goes out at most once an hour per class; every guide still gets its card.
Open My Classroom → - Students
Your buddy now has rewards to unlock right away
Reaching Level 2 ("Making Friends") unlocks Buddy Specs, and Level 3 ("New Friends") unlocks the Friendship Cap — two new accessories for your buddy, earned just by studying together. Anyone already past those levels gets them automatically the next time they play a game.
See Your Buddy → - Students
Your buddy now leads with friendship, not a level number
Home and your Buddy screen now show how close you and your pet are — like "Good Friends" or "One step to Best Friends" — instead of a level number and raw XP. The exact numbers are still there any time on your Progress page.
See Your Buddy → - Parents
AvaStudy Family: one subscription, up to 4 kids
Paying for Unlimited separately for each kid is gone. AvaStudy Family covers up to 4 kids under one subscription and one bill — each kid still keeps their own account, progress, coins, and pet. Set it up from Settings → Family after each child shares a linking code.
Set Up Family → - Students
Study Tutor checks that it actually stuck
After the Study Tutor explains a concept, it sometimes follows up with a quick question to check understanding. Answering it counts toward that concept's progress, just like a real question in a game.
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Parents can see Study Tutor conversations
A linked parent can now open any of their child's guides and read the Study Tutor conversation on it. Students see a note in the Study Tutor when a parent is linked.
Go to Dashboard → - Parents
Parents get the full concept breakdown
The parent report now shows all four buckets for every guide — mastered, working on it, struggling, and not started yet — instead of just mastered and struggling.
Go to Dashboard → - Teachers
See exactly who is stuck on what
Teachers now get a Concept Mastery Grid on every assignment — every student’s status on every concept the guide tests, side by side, not just the class average.
Open a Class → - TeachersStudents
Message your whole class
Teachers can post a short note to a class — a reminder, a heads-up about the next quiz, "no class Monday." Students see it on their dashboard and in their class list, and get a push unless they turn it off. It only goes one way: students can't reply or message each other, and no student contact details are collected.
- Everyone
Two new Advanced Games: Word Battle and Label Lab
Word Battle scrambles a term's letters into tiles you tap back into order against the clue. Label Lab turns a labeled diagram from your own material — a cell, a map, a process — into a board where you place each term on the right spot. Both are free for everyone, like every Advanced Game.
- Everyone
Your coin history now shows every way you earned them
The Coin Transactions list on your My Stats page used to only show coins from games. Now every credit shows up — daily missions, one-time challenges, everything — so the total actually adds up to what you see in your balance.
See Your Coin History → - Teachers
One guide, several classes — see the combined picture
Assign the same guide to two or more classes and its page now shows a rolled-up summary: how many students across all of them have started, and the concepts everyone is finding hardest, pooled together. Each class still keeps its own detailed report — this just saves the trip between them.
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Teacher and parent accounts get their own first-run experience
New teacher and parent accounts used to see the same starter missions as a student. Now teachers are walked toward setting up their first class, and parents toward linking their first learner (worth a small coin bonus) — with their own one-time challenges to match, the same setup students already had.
- Everyone
A whole second set of study games — free
Every guide now has an Advanced Study Games section below the usual games: Concept Connect, Crossword, Concept Ladder, The Grid, Brain Feud, Hot Streak, The Big Question, Tic-Tac-Know, The Circuit, Brain Drop, and the season-long Study League. They're built for deeper recall, deduction, and strategy — and they're free for everyone. A guide needs enough interlocking terms or questions to build a good board; if one isn't ready, add a little more material.
- Everyone
Themes — a new look for AvaStudy
AvaStudy Unlimited now includes themes. Alongside the classic Ava look, you can switch to Focus (a calm navy and slate palette that suits older students and teachers), Ocean, or Forest. It only changes colors and backgrounds — nothing about how the app works or your progress — and it's separate from the Playful home screen setting, so you can mix and match. Pick one in Settings → Experience.
Choose a Theme → - Students
Find out if you're actually ready for the test
Every guide now shows a readiness score, and you can take a Practice Test — a timed, one-pass run across the whole guide that tells you concept by concept what you know and what to fix. Set a test date and AvaStudy builds a personalized study plan, switches to Cram Mode as the day gets close, and puts it front and centre on your home screen. A short free Mini Practice Quiz gives you a taste; the full Practice Test, the study plan and the Study Tutor are part of AvaStudy Unlimited. Every game mode stays free for everyone.
Open a Guide to Try It → - Everyone
Questions built from your notes are checked against them
When AvaStudy builds cards and questions from your material, it checks them against what you actually uploaded and flags anything it can't place — so you can tap a flagged item and fix it in the editor in a couple of taps. Practice variations made later from your cards aren't checked again, so report anything that looks wrong.
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Practice and live games count toward your homework
Practising an assigned guide, or playing it as a live game in class, now moves you toward turning it in — it counts as playing that game, and you get a heads-up about assignments already due the moment you join a class. A score target still needs a real scored game, but "we did this in class" is no longer wasted.
- StudentsParentsTeachers
Homework you can actually keep track of
Assigned a guide? You get an alert the moment it lands, the homework banner shows how far along you are ("2 topics left in Needs Work") and flips to "Turned in" once you meet the bar — the results screen tells you too, right after the game. A missed deadline no longer locks anything: you can still finish it and it still counts, just marked "late". The weekly parent email now has a Homework section — turned in, late, outstanding, and anything overdue.
Open Your Homework → - TeachersStudents
Assignments can reward finishing on time
When a teacher assigns a guide with a due date, they can turn on a coin bonus for students who finish before the deadline. It runs itself — students get a note from the class with the coins to accept. Nothing for the teacher to manage.
How It Works for Teachers → - TeachersStudents
Assignments say what to do — and you choose how hard
When a teacher assigns a guide they now pick a turn-in bar on an Easy → Medium → Hard ladder: Easy is play a game, Medium adds a score to hit, Hard adds covering every topic so nothing is left in "Needs Work". Each step includes the one before it. The student sees exactly what to do in a homework banner on the guide, and the gradebook fills in as they clear it.
How It Works for Teachers → - Teachers
Classes, assignments, and live games for teachers
Teachers can create a class, share a join code, assign a guide with a due date, and watch a gradebook fill in as students play. Live mode runs a class-wide game on the projector, Kahoot-style, with everyone answering from their own device.
How It Works for Teachers → - Students
Practice adapts to what you keep missing
AvaStudy tracks which concepts you're shaky on and quietly weights them heavier — in your daily challenge, in the "Strengthen" round, and in which game it suggests next. The study-guide page shows a "What You Know" breakdown so you can see where you stand.
- Everyone
iPhone photos just work now
Photos straight from an iPhone (the HEIC format) used to fail silently. They're handled properly now, whether you upload one page or several.
- ParentsTeachersStudents
Parent and teacher accounts, and a College grade
When you sign up you can say whether you're a student, a parent, or a teacher, and the app adjusts what it shows you. College is now a grade option, so the material and tone fit older students.
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