Wake Humanities.Learning.Ap
Wake Humanities.Learning.Ap
Everything you need to use Wake Humanities.Learning.Ap — how to start, which subjects it teaches, how lessons, listening and writing practice work, how to read a report, and how to keep results safe.
For app version 0.1
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This app teaches the humanities: History, Geography, Government, Literature in English, Religious Studies and Social Studies, one short lesson at a time, with practice after every lesson and an explanation after every answer.
It is for learners of about fourteen and over, grown-ups included. Every course is in one app, for one price, each in its own folder on the home screen. Courses are added exam board by exam board, starting with Ghana SHS History for the WASSCE.
It does not mark long written answers. Marking an essay or a data-response answer properly needs a person, and the only other way would be to send the learner's work to an outside company, which this app never does. Show written answers to a teacher.
It is not a past-paper book. Every question, case study and set of figures is written for this app. Its report describes work done in the app; it is not a school grade.
The app runs in a web browser, but it is meant to live on the home screen like any other app. On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the three dots and choose Add to Home screen or Install app. On iPhone, open it in Safari, tap the share button and choose Add to Home Screen.
Once it is there it opens full screen and works with no internet at all.
Opening the file inside WhatsApp, Gmail or a file manager shows a preview, and previews do not run apps: the buttons will not respond. Ask for the web link rather than the file, and open it in Chrome or Safari.
Tap Add a learner, then give a first name, an age and a picture. No email is asked for, and the free trial starts at once. Before it ends the app shows the plans; when it ends it offers a few more free days, once. An email is asked for only if you choose to pay, because the receipt goes there.
Nothing is locked. The lessons are numbered in a sensible order, but a learner whose examination is close can go straight to the skill they need most.
One lesson a day, five days a week, and one writing task each week. Read every page, and read the explanation after every answer — including the ones you got right. Use earphones for listening practice.
▲ Back to the contentsEach course follows its examination board's own syllabus, topic by topic, and has its own folder on the home screen: tap a folder to see its parts, and ◀ All courses to come back.
| Course | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Ghana SHS History | NaCCA's new SHS curriculum, year by year, with the topics WASSCE still examines, in 22 parts (SHS 1: parts 1–8, SHS 2: 9–17, SHS 3: 18–22), each ending with a worked Paper 2 answer, and a part of WASSCE practice papers. Lessons marked "(WASSCE)" teach topics the examination asks about that the new curriculum leaves out. More courses follow, subject by subject. |
| Cambridge IGCSE History | Syllabus 0470 (and 0977, the same course graded 9–1): the 20th-century core (international relations since 1919) and three depth studies, Germany, the USA and Russia; reading sources for Paper 2; and exam practice for Papers 1, 2 and 4. The course was rebuilt for 2024, so books printed before then teach an older shape. The app never writes or marks coursework. |
| Cambridge AS and A Level History | Syllabus 9489 for 2027–2029 (rebuilt for 2027). AS: International history 1870–1939, with source and essay practice. A Level: Paper 3 on the origins of the Cold War and its historians; Paper 4 on Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany (the European option), and on the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and the end of minority rule in South Africa and Zimbabwe (the International option). Two folders, AS and A Level. The app never marks an essay. |
| IB Diploma History | The new IB course (first exams 2028; books for the older course teach a different shape). For everyone: Independence and identity (Haiti and Kenya), Authoritarian rule (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Nkrumah's Ghana, taught with both sides), the two papers, the investigation (never written or marked by the app) and practice. For Higher Level, a second folder: Paper 3, Asante, and Ghana's road to independence. |
| AP World History: Modern | The College Board course, 1200 to 2001, in its nine units, with the exam as it is from May 2027 (three short answers all required, one long essay; older books show choices that are gone). Asante, Kongo, Yaa Asantewaa and the Gold Coast's independence are all in it. Practice with our own sources; the app never marks an essay. |
| AP US History | The College Board course, 1491 to the present, in its nine periods, starting with a lesson on the United States for a learner who is not American. The May 2027 exam shape, reading sources, and the two essays taught row by row. Our own sources; the app never marks an essay. |
| AP European History | The College Board course, about 1450 to the present, in its nine units, with Elmina, the Gold Coast and Ghana's independence where Europe meets Ghana. The May 2027 exam shape and practice with our own sources; the app never marks an essay. |
| Ghana SHS Geography | SHS 1 to SHS 3 from NaCCA's 2023 curriculum, plus every WASSCE topic it leaves out (marked "WASSCE"): physical and human geography, Ghana, West Africa and Africa, map reading on made-up map extracts, and graphs. Maps of Ghana, West Africa and Africa are drawn from accurate map data, with no region boundaries. The app never marks a drawing, a sketch map or fieldwork; practise those on paper. |
| Cambridge IGCSE Geography | The 0460 course for first exams in 2027: rivers, coasts, Antarctica and the rainforest, plates, earthquakes and volcanoes, climate change, population and migration, towns and cities, development, jobs, tourism, food and energy, graphs, GIS, investigations, map skills on made-up map extracts, and how the papers work. World and Africa maps are drawn from accurate map data. The app never marks fieldwork or a written answer. |
| Cambridge AS & A Level Geography | The 9696 course for exams from 2027, in two folders. AS: rivers, weather and climate, plates and landslides, population and migration, water, and cities, with the resource skills and AS practice. A Level: all eight options (tropical, coastal, hazardous and arid environments; climate change, environmental issues, trade aid and tourism, and disease), with A Level practice. Worked essays are our own; the app never marks an essay. |
| IB Geography | The IB Diploma course (the guide for first assessment 2019, still in force), SL and HL together, in three folders: the core (population, climate, resources) with skills, fieldwork and exam practice; all seven options (freshwater, oceans and coasts, extreme environments, geophysical hazards, leisure tourism and sport, food and health, urban environments); and the three HL units, marked "(HL)". The fieldwork (IA) lessons use made-up examples; the app never writes or marks an IA or an essay. |
| AP Human Geography | The College Board course (the course description effective Fall 2020, still current) in its seven units: thinking geographically, population and migration, culture, political geography, agriculture, cities, and industry and development, with exam practice. The classic models are tested against Ghanaian and African examples. Worked free-response answers are our own; the app never marks one. |
| Ghana SHS Government | The NaCCA Government curriculum for SHS 1 to SHS 3, plus every topic WAEC examines that it leaves out (colonial rule, nationalism, Ghana's constitutions from 1916 to 1979, military rule, the UN, the AU, ECOWAS and the Commonwealth), marked "(WASSCE)", with WASSCE practice papers. Article numbers come from the 1992 Constitution's own text. No party, government or leader is praised or blamed: where WAEC asks for achievements and failures, the points examiners credit are given on both sides as plain facts. Worked answers are our own; the app never marks one. |
| IB Global Politics | The IB Diploma course from the guide for first assessment 2026, SL and HL: the core (power, sovereignty, legitimacy, interdependence), the three thematic studies (rights and justice, development and sustainability, peace and conflict), Papers 1 and 2, the engagement project, and in a folder of its own the HL global political challenges and Paper 3. Cases come mostly from Africa and Ghana. Every source is invented and labelled; contested issues are given from several sides, never judged. The app never writes or marks a project or an essay. |
| AP Comparative Government | The College Board course (course description effective Fall 2026) in its five units, with a country file for each of the six course countries (China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia and the UK), practice for the four free-response questions, and exam practice. The course guide's out-of-date country facts are taught as they stand in 2026. Regimes are described in the course's own terms; no government, party or leader is praised or blamed. The app never marks an answer. |
| AP US Government | The College Board course (course description effective Fall 2026) in its five units, with a part on the thirteen required founding documents and one on the fourteen required Supreme Court cases, practice for the four free-response questions, and exam practice. Court decisions on contested questions are taught only as what the Court decided, when, and under which part of the Constitution, never whether it was right. No party or politician is praised or blamed. The app never marks an answer. |
| Literature in English | Ghana SHS Literature-in-English with every WAEC set text for 2026–2030, Cambridge IGCSE (0475) and AS & A Level (9695), IB English A: Literature and IB English A: Language and Literature, and AP English Literature: the set texts, unseen prose and poetry, and practice for every paper. Only writers long dead are quoted; every other text is described in our own words. The app never writes or marks an essay. |
| Religious Studies | Ghana SHS Christian Religious Studies, Islamic Religious Studies and the combined Religious Studies, with the WASSCE topics. Every faith is described in its own terms, and no question asks a learner to agree with a belief. |
| Social Studies, Sociology and Global Perspectives | Ghana SHS Social Studies for WASSCE, and Cambridge IGCSE Sociology (0495) and Global Perspectives (0457). The app never writes or marks coursework. |
Tap a lesson and its pages appear one at a time — Next page and Back move between them. On the last page, Start the drill appears (and Start the writing task where the lesson has one). A learner who already knows the lesson can skip straight there from any page.
| Kind | What the learner does |
|---|---|
| Choose the answer | Taps one of three or four answers. The wrong answers are the traps the examination really sets, so guessing does not pay. |
| Type the answer | Types a word, a few words or a number, then taps Check. The word limit is printed under the box. |
As the examination marks them. Spelling counts, and an answer with more words than the limit is wrong even when the words are right. Capital letters and spare spaces do not matter. Where the examination accepts more than one form — British or American spelling, a number in figures or in words — every accepted form is shown after the answer.
A reading question shows its passage in a box above the answers. The box scrolls on its own, so the question and the answers stay close by; tap its title to fold it away.
After every answer, right or wrong, the app shows the right answer and why it is right, usually pointing to the words in the passage or recording. Nothing moves on by itself.
About four in ten questions in a round are drawn from what that learner has missed before. Mixed revision on the home screen draws questions from every lesson started.
▲ Back to the contentsGeography asks for some calculations: map scales, distances, gradients, averages from climate tables and the like. Every question with figures in it has a yellow pencil button. It opens a sheet of squared paper with the question across the top, for working the sum out by hand, just as in the examination. Nothing on it is kept: it is wiped for the next question.
Keep a calculator beside you where the examination allows one, and write every step. The explanation after each answer shows the working.
▲ Back to the contentsA writing task shows the question exactly as the examination would, how long to spend and how many words to write.
The model answer is one good way to answer, not the only one, and the checklist is for the learner's own judgement. The app never gives a mark for writing.
Reports, Settings, Support and the class dashboard sit behind a multiplication question. It is not security; it simply stops a report or a setting being changed by accident.
Points, drills done, best score and the day streak sit at the top. Below them, Go straight to a part has a button for every part. Each lesson tile shows how many pages and questions it has, whether it has a writing task or speaking practice, and — once done — the percentage right or a tick for the task.
My chart shows scores over time and a board of every lesson, green where it is secure. Questions I miss lists the questions this learner gets wrong most often, with a button to practise exactly those.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Questions per round | 5, 10, 15 or 20. A lesson's drill never repeats a question to fill a round. |
| Way of speaking and voice | Which accent and voice read the questions, models and recordings. If a voice is hard to make out, choose another and press Hear this voice. |
| Speed of the listening recordings | Slower to learn from, normal, or a little faster. |
| Sounds | Turns the tones off. Recordings still play when asked for. |
| Animations | Turns off movement. |
| Bring back questions I missed more often | Weaves past mistakes back into rounds. Leave it on. |
The report is written from the learner's own recorded answers: drills done, accuracy, each part and each lesson, a chart, the questions missed most with the point each one teaches, and recommendations. You can print it, save it as a PDF, email it or send it on WhatsApp. It is not a school grade.
With a class licence, the teacher's dashboard shows every learner on the device, sorted so whoever needs attention comes first. A teacher using Wake Mark.Book.Ap can bring the weekly drill marks into their mark book. Writing is sent to the teacher with the button on each writing task.
▲ Back to the contentsA licence belongs to the household or the classroom, not to one learner. A family paying for three learners is never asked to pay again for the second.
Schools can receive a code after payment. Enter it on the plans screen. You need internet for this one step: a code is checked with our server the first time it is used. After that the app works with no internet, for as long as the plan lasts.
Each Wake app has its own codes, and a code for one app will not open another. If the wrong one is entered, the app says which app the code belongs to.
A warning appears a few days before. When it ends, nothing is deleted — the learner's whole history stays and returns the moment the plan is renewed.
▲ Back to the contentsLook at the accepted answers shown: the usual cause is a spelling, a plural, or one word too many — all of which the examination marks wrong too. If you are sure the app is wrong, tell us through Support, saying which lesson and question.
Almost always the browser's data was cleared, or the app was opened in a different browser. Results live in the browser that made them. Restore from a backup — see the next chapter.
Close every tab of the app and open it again, with internet on.
▲ Back to the contentsEvery result and every piece of writing lives in this browser on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to us. That keeps a learner's work private — and it means that clearing the browser, changing phone or reinstalling will lose it unless you have saved a backup. Recordings are never kept at all.
Settings → Save a backup writes a small file to the device. Email it to yourself and it is safe. To bring it back: Settings → Restore from a backup. If the learner already exists on the device, the copy with more history is kept.
Settings → Clear results wipes that learner's scores but keeps the learner and the subscription. Settings → Erase this pupil removes the learner and everything they did. It cannot be undone, so save a backup first.
Wake Humanities.Learning.Ap · user manual · for app version 0.1. One of the Wake Learning Apps. The Primary Years Programme and the Middle Years Programme are programmes of the International Baccalaureate Organization, which does not endorse this app.
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