Wake Video.Lessons.Ap
Wake Video.Lessons.Ap
Everything you need to use Wake Video.Lessons.Ap — how to start, which courses it teaches, how a lesson and its drill work, how to read a report, and how to keep results safe.
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This app presents physics, chemistry and biology lessons the way a short video would. The learner chooses a subject and a lesson, then chooses a guide from the history of science — Newton, Faraday and Marie Curie for physics; Lavoisier, Mendeleev and Dorothy Hodgkin for chemistry; Harvey, Darwin, Mendel and Wangari Maathai for biology; Ghana's own Francis Allotey and Marian Ewurama Addy; more than a hundred in all — or Madam Akosua, a teacher we invented. The app first tells a short, true story of the guide's life and how their work connects with the lesson. Then the lesson's pages appear one at a time and the phone reads each one aloud, with its pictures. A drill follows, with an explanation after every answer.
The lessons are the same ones as in Wake Physics.Learning.Ap, Wake Chemistry.Learning.Ap and Wake Biology.Learning.Ap; this app reads them from there, so a lesson corrected in one is corrected in both. Choose the subject with the three buttons on the home screen; the app keeps one subject's lessons at a time, and remembers the choice.
It is for learners of about twelve and over, adults included. Each examination course has its own part, written at that course's level:
It does not send anything to an AI service or anywhere else. It does not copy past examination papers: its questions are its own, written on the same topics. It does not replace laboratory work, which every one of these courses expects. And its report describes work done in the app; it is not an examination result.
Many questions need a short calculation. The numbers are chosen to work out neatly, but a calculator and a piece of paper help. Where a number is needed for gravity, the AP lessons use g = 10 m/s², as the AP exam does.
▲ Back to the contentsThe 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. A grown-up's email is asked for only if you choose to pay, because the receipt goes there.
Nothing is locked. The lessons are numbered in the order the course is usually taught — that is guidance, not a gate. A pupil revising for an examination can go straight to the topic their class is on.
One lesson and its drill a day, five days a week. Read every page, do the drill with a pencil in hand, and read the explanation after every answer — including the ones you got right.
▲ Back to the contents| Part | What it covers |
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| 🍎 AP Physics 1 53 lessons |
The College Board's AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based course (Course and Exam Description effective fall 2024), for the May examination. It begins with SI units, prefixes and the exam's reference sheet. Unit 1, Kinematics, is complete: scalars and vectors; displacement, velocity and acceleration; motion diagrams and graphs; the kinematic equations and free fall; reference frames and relative motion; vectors in two dimensions; and projectiles. Unit 2, Force and Translational Dynamics, is complete: systems and centre of mass; forces and free-body diagrams; Newton's three laws; tension; universal gravitation, weight and apparent weight; friction; springs and Hooke's law; circular motion, loops, banked curves and orbits. Unit 3, Work, Energy, and Power, is complete: kinetic energy; work and the work–energy theorem; conservative and nonconservative forces; gravitational and elastic potential energy; conservation of energy and energy lost to friction; and power. Unit 4, Linear Momentum, is complete: momentum; impulse and force–time graphs; the impulse–momentum theorem and why airbags work; conservation of momentum in collisions and explosions; choosing the system; and elastic and inelastic collisions. Unit 5, Torque and Rotational Dynamics, is complete: rotational kinematics; linking linear and rotational motion; torque and the lever arm; rotational inertia and the parallel axis theorem; rotational equilibrium with seesaws and beams; and Newton's second law in rotational form. Unit 6, Energy and Momentum of Rotating Systems, is complete: rotational kinetic energy; work done by a torque; angular momentum and angular impulse; conservation of angular momentum and the spinning skater; rolling and the disc-against-hoop race; and orbiting satellites and escape velocity. Unit 7, Oscillations, is complete: what makes motion simple harmonic; the period of a mass on a spring and of a pendulum; displacement, velocity and acceleration graphs; and the energy of an oscillator. Unit 8, Fluids, is complete: density and the ideal fluid; pressure, gauge and absolute pressure and depth; buoyancy and Archimedes' principle; flow and the continuity equation; and Bernoulli's equation and Torricelli's theorem. All eight units of AP Physics 1 are in. |
| 🏎️ IGCSE Physics 1: Motion, forces and energy 17 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 1: measuring length, volume and time; scalars and vectors; speed, velocity and motion graphs; acceleration and falling objects; mass and weight; density; forces, springs, friction and Newton's first law; the spring constant, F = ma and circular motion; moments; centre of gravity and stability; momentum and impulse; energy stores and conservation; kinetic and potential energy sums; work and power; energy resources; the Sun, fusion and efficiency; and pressure. Every lesson shows its syllabus section, and lessons only Extended candidates need say (Extended). |
| 🌡️ IGCSE Physics 2: Thermal physics 11 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 2: states of matter and changes of state; the particle model, temperature, absolute zero and Brownian motion; gases, pressure and the kelvin scale (with pV = constant); thermal expansion; internal energy and specific heat capacity; melting, boiling and evaporation; conduction; convection; thermal radiation; radiation balance and the Earth's temperature; and thermal energy transfers in everyday life — the kitchen pan, heating a room, a coal fire, a car radiator and a vacuum flask. |
| 🌊 IGCSE Physics 3: Waves 12 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 3: describing waves and v = fλ; reflection, refraction and diffraction in the ripple tank; the plane mirror; refraction of light and the refractive index; critical angle, total internal reflection and optical fibres; thin lenses and real images; virtual images, the magnifying glass and correcting sight; dispersion; the electromagnetic spectrum, its uses and its dangers; the speed of light, communications and digital signals; sound; and sound in different media and ultrasound. |
| 🔌 IGCSE Physics 4: Electricity and magnetism 15 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 4: magnets and magnetic fields; electric charge; electric current; e.m.f., potential difference and voltmeters; resistance; electrical energy, power and the cost of electricity; circuit diagrams and components; series and parallel circuits; the potential divider; electrical safety; electromagnetic induction; the a.c. generator; the magnetic effect of a current; the motor effect and the d.c. motor; and the transformer and power transmission. |
| ☢️ IGCSE Physics 5: Nuclear physics 8 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 5: the atom, ions and the alpha-scattering evidence for the nucleus; protons, neutrons, nuclide notation and isotopes; fission and fusion; background radiation and detecting radiation; alpha, beta and gamma; radioactive decay and its equations; half-life, with and without background, and choosing an isotope for a job; and radiation and safety. |
| 🪐 IGCSE Physics 6: Space physics 6 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Physics (0625), topic 6: the Earth, the Sun and the Moon — day and night, the seasons, the phases of the Moon and orbital speed; the Solar System and how it formed; orbits and planetary data; the Sun, the stars, the galaxies and the light-year; the life cycle of stars; and the Universe, redshift, the Big Bang, the microwave background and the age of the Universe. All six topics of Cambridge IGCSE Physics are in. |
| 📏 IGCSE Physics practical: Papers 5 and 6 22 lessons |
The practical papers taught properly, whether your school sits Paper 5 at the bench or Paper 6 on paper: reading instruments and drawn scales, accurate techniques, tables, graphs and gradients, conclusions and the 10% rule, variables and safety; then twelve experiments worked in full — a pendulum, a spring, moments, density, cooling, a wire's resistance, a lamp, series and parallel circuits, a glass block, a mirror, a lens and a ramp — a whole plan, and the mistakes examiners see every year. |
| 🔬 AP Physics 2 59 lessons |
The College Board's AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based course, units 9 to 15, for the May examination. It begins with what the course assumes from Physics 1 and the constants on the reference sheet. Unit 9, Thermodynamics, is complete: systems, internal energy and temperature; pressure, thermal equilibrium and the ideal gas law; work and PV diagrams; heat, the first law and specific heat; heat engines and cycles; the kinetic theory and v_rms; and probability, entropy and the second law. Unit 10, Electric Force, Field, and Potential, is complete: charge and its conservation; charging by friction, conduction and induction; permittivity and dielectrics; Coulomb's law and superposition; electric against gravitational forces; fields and field lines; uniform fields and conductors; electric flux and Gauss's law; potential energy and potential; and equipotentials, E = V/d and conservation of energy. Unit 11, Electric Circuits, is complete: current and conservation of charge; resistance and resistivity; Ohm's law and I–V graphs; resistors in series and parallel; capacitors, dielectrics and stored energy; capacitors in series and parallel; the loop rule, emf and internal resistance; power; the junction rule and multi-loop circuits; and RC circuits with the time constant. Unit 12, Magnetism and Electromagnetism, is complete: poles, domains and field lines; permeability and the dipole moment; vector and scalar fields; monopole and dipole fields; the fields of a wire and a solenoid; the force on a moving charge and circular motion; the force on a wire, parallel wires and the motor; the velocity selector and mass spectrometer; flux, Faraday's law and Lenz's law; and motional emf and the generator. Unit 13, Geometric Optics, is complete: reflection and the plane mirror; refraction and Snell's law; total internal reflection, dispersion and absorption; converging lenses and ray diagrams; the lens equation, magnification and diverging lenses; and curved mirrors. Unit 14, Waves, Sound, and Physical Optics, is complete: periodic waves and v = fλ; superposition, boundaries and standing waves on strings; electromagnetic waves and polarisation; sound, intensity, pipes and beats; the Doppler effect; two-source interference and the double slit; and diffraction, gratings and thin films. Unit 15, Modern Physics, is complete: the nucleus and alpha, beta and gamma decay; half-life and carbon dating; energy in nuclear reactions, binding energy, fission and fusion; mass–energy equivalence and the mass defect; blackbody radiation and the photon; wave–particle duality and the de Broglie wavelength; energy levels and spectra; and the photoelectric effect. All seven units of AP Physics 2 are in. |
| ⚙️ AP Physics C: Mechanics 54 lessons |
The College Board's calculus-based mechanics course, units 1 to 7, for the May examination. It begins with the calculus it uses and the exam's equation sheet. Unit 1, Kinematics: vectors and unit-vector notation, average and instantaneous velocity and acceleration by differentiation and integration, constant acceleration, motion graphs, reference frames and projectiles. Unit 2, Force and Translational Dynamics: systems and centre of mass by integration, free-body diagrams, the three laws, gravitation and the shell theorem, friction, springs in series and parallel, resistive forces and terminal velocity by separation of variables, and circular motion. Unit 3, Work, Energy, and Power: kinetic energy, work as an integral, the work–energy theorem, potential energy and F = −dU/dx, spring and gravitational potential energy, conservation of energy and power. Unit 4, Linear Momentum: momentum, impulse and F = dp/dt, conservation, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions, explosions and the ballistic pendulum. Unit 5, Torque and Rotational Dynamics: rotational kinematics, the links to linear motion, torque and the cross product, rotational inertia by sums, the parallel-axis theorem and integration, rotational equilibrium and τ = Iα. Unit 6, Energy and Momentum of Rotating Systems: rotational kinetic energy, torque and work, angular momentum and angular impulse, conservation of angular momentum, rolling with and without slipping, circular orbits and escape velocity. Unit 7, Oscillations: defining SHM, frequency and period, x(t), v(t) and a(t), graphs and resonance, energy, and the physical, simple and torsion pendulums. All seven units are in. |
| 🧲 AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 45 lessons |
The College Board's calculus-based electricity and magnetism course, units 8 to 13. It begins with what it assumes from Mechanics and the exam's constants and equations. Unit 8, Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law: charge and Coulomb's law, permittivity, conductors and insulators, conservation of charge and charging, fields of point charges and of charged conductors, fields of rings, arcs and line charges by integration, electric flux, and Gauss's law for spheres, cylinders and planes. Unit 9, Electric Potential: potential energy, potential of point charges and of distributions by integration, E = −dV/dx and equipotentials, and conservation of electric energy. Unit 10, Conductors and Capacitors: electrostatics with conductors, redistribution of charge and grounding, the parallel-plate capacitor, spherical and cylindrical capacitors, and dielectrics. Unit 11, Electric Circuits: current, drift velocity and current density, circuits and schematics, resistance and Ohm's law, power, series and parallel resistors, internal resistance and meters, Kirchhoff's rules, capacitors in combination, and RC circuits. Unit 12, Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism: fields and dipoles, magnetic materials and permeability, forces on moving charges, circular motion, the velocity selector and the Hall effect, the Biot–Savart law, forces on wires, and Ampère's law for wires, solenoids, slabs and cylinders, with Maxwell's addition. Unit 13, Electromagnetic Induction: magnetic flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law and Maxwell's equations, motional emf and forces on induced currents, inductance, LR circuits and LC circuits. All six units are in. |
| 🔬 AP Physics labs: experimental design 25 lessons |
AP has no practical paper, so this teaches the labs of AP Physics 1, 2 and C and the exam's Experimental Design and Analysis question: how its points are given, designing a procedure, variables, linearising, the graph and slope, uncertainty in a slope, and claims; then sixteen labs worked in full — eight for AP Physics 1, six for AP Physics 2 (one shared with C) and two for AP Physics C — and the common mistakes. |
| 📐 Cambridge AS Level Physics 45 lessons |
Cambridge International AS & A Level Physics 9702, topics 1 to 11, for examinations in 2025 to 2027. It begins with how the course is examined and the data page. Physical quantities, SI units, errors and uncertainties, and vectors; kinematics and projectiles; momentum, Newton's laws, drag and collisions in one and two dimensions; moments, equilibrium, density, pressure and upthrust; work, energy, efficiency and power; Hooke's law, the Young modulus and stored energy; progressive waves, the oscilloscope, the Doppler effect, the electromagnetic spectrum and polarisation; stationary waves, diffraction, interference and the grating; current, p.d., resistance and resistivity; e.m.f., Kirchhoff's laws, potential dividers and the potentiometer; the nuclear atom, radioactive decay and quarks. Two lessons cover the Paper 3 practical skills. All eleven AS topics are in. |
| 🔭 Cambridge A Level Physics 48 lessons |
Topics 12 to 25 of the same syllabus. Motion in a circle; gravitational fields, orbits and potential; temperature, specific heat and latent heat; ideal gases and kinetic theory; internal energy and the first law; simple harmonic motion, damping and resonance; electric fields and potential; capacitance and discharge; magnetic fields, forces on charges, the Hall effect, induction, Faraday's and Lenz's laws; alternating currents and rectification; photons, the photoelectric effect, wave–particle duality and energy levels; binding energy, fission, fusion and exponential decay; ultrasound, X-rays, CT and PET scanning; standard candles, stellar radii, redshift and Hubble's law. Two lessons cover Paper 5, planning and data analysis. All fourteen A Level topics are in. |
| 📏 Cambridge Physics practical: Paper 3 19 lessons | The practical exam, taught properly: reading instruments, tables and significant figures, uncertainties, graphs and gradients, and evaluating a method, then ten experiments worked through exactly as the paper sets them (a mass on a spring, a cantilever, a wire's resistance, a cell's internal resistance, a ramp, a thermistor, moments, a lens, and two evaluation experiments). |
| 📝 Cambridge Physics planning: Paper 5 20 lessons | Planning an experiment (variables, method, diagram, safety, analysis), linearising power laws and exponentials with logarithms, error bars, worst acceptable lines and the uncertainty in a gradient, with six plans and four data analyses worked in full. |
| 🚀 IB Physics A: Space, time and motion 14 lessons |
IB Diploma Physics, theme A, for first assessment in 2025. It begins with how the course and its papers work and what the data booklet gives. Kinematics and projectiles; Newton's laws, free-body diagrams, contact and field forces, momentum, impulse, collisions and circular motion; work, energy, Sankey diagrams, power and efficiency. (HL) rigid body mechanics — torque, moment of inertia, angular momentum — and Galilean and special relativity, including space–time diagrams and muon decay. |
| 🌡️ IB Physics B: The particulate nature of matter 9 lessons |
Theme B: the molecular model, temperature and internal energy, specific heat and latent heat; conduction, convection, radiation, black bodies and apparent brightness; the greenhouse effect and the Earth's energy balance; the gas laws and the kinetic model; current, resistance, resistivity, circuits and internal resistance. (HL) the first law of thermodynamics, entropy and heat engines. |
| 🎵 IB Physics C: Wave behaviour 10 lessons |
Theme C: simple harmonic motion and its periods and energy; the wave model, sound and electromagnetic waves; reflection, refraction, total internal reflection and diffraction; superposition, interference and Young's double slit; standing waves on strings and in pipes; resonance and damping; the Doppler effect. (HL) phase angle and the SHM equations, single-slit diffraction and gratings, and the Doppler equations for sound. |
| 🌐 IB Physics D: Fields 7 lessons |
Theme D: Kepler's laws, Newton's law of gravitation and gravitational fields; charge, Coulomb's law and the electric field; magnetic field patterns; the motion of charges in electric, magnetic and crossed fields, forces on currents and between parallel wires. (HL) gravitational and electric potential, equipotentials, escape speed, and electromagnetic induction with Faraday's and Lenz's laws. |
| ⚛️ IB Physics E: Nuclear and quantum physics 9 lessons |
Theme E: the Rutherford experiment, nuclear notation and atomic spectra; isotopes, mass defect and binding energy; alpha, beta and gamma decay, activity and half-life; fission and reactors; fusion, the life of stars, the HR diagram and stellar parallax. (HL) nuclear radius and closest approach, the Bohr model, the photoelectric effect, de Broglie waves, Compton scattering, and the decay law. |
| 🔬 IB Physics practical work and the IA 24 lessons |
IB practical work taught properly: the Tools and the Inquiry process, uncertainties and their propagation, uncertainty bars and maximum and minimum gradients, linearising and logs, and technology; the internal assessment, one lesson for each of its four criteria, with weak and strong extracts of our own (the app never writes or marks an IA — it must be the student's own work); then twelve investigations and Paper 1B-style questions worked in full, and the common mistakes. |
| 🇬🇭 Ghana JHS Science (the physics parts) 32 lessons |
The physics strands of Ghana's JHS Integrated Science, B7 to B9, for the BECE. It begins with what the part covers and what it leaves out, the units, and g = 10 m/s². B7: the forms of energy, PE = mgh and KE = ½mv², heat transfer, light, generating electricity, electronic components, conservation of energy, Newton's first law, magnets, levers and efficiency, the inner planets. B8: energy conversion and the hydro dam, renewable energy, heat and temperature, transmission, capacitors, making magnets, F = ma, complex machines, the outer planets. B9: saving energy and the kilowatt-hour, the camera, shadows and eclipses, refraction, circuits and V = IR, forward and reverse bias, pressure, Newton's third law, momentum, comets and asteroids. All three years are in. |
| 📘 Ghana SHS Physics 1 (SHS 1) 34 lessons |
Year 1 of Ghana's SHS Physics curriculum, for WASSCE. It begins with the four strands, the units and g = 10 m/s². What physics is and the work it leads to; the mathematics it needs; fundamental and derived quantities, dimensions, the vernier calliper and the micrometer, errors, standard form, scalars and vectors; the states of matter; motion, the equations of uniformly accelerated motion and motion graphs; Newton's three laws; pressure in fluids and Pascal's principle; thermometry, types of thermometer and the temperature scales; plane, inclined and spherical mirrors and the mirror formula; refraction, refractive index, total internal reflection and apparent depth; conductors and semiconductors, charge, magnets and magnetic fields; diodes, LEDs, the Zener diode, transducers and the transistor; the atomic models, E = hf, the nucleus and nuclear equations. All four strands of Year 1 are in. |
| 📗 Ghana SHS Physics 2 (SHS 2) 34 lessons |
Year 2 of Ghana's SHS Physics curriculum. Density and relative density, upthrust, Archimedes' principle and flotation; resolving vectors and finding a resultant; elasticity, Hooke's law, energy in a stretched wire and Young's modulus; projectiles, circular motion, banking and skidding, friction. Heat capacity and specific heat capacity, the method of mixtures, latent heat of fusion and vaporisation. Waves and the wave equation, reading a wave from its graph, sound, echoes and echo-sounding, resonance and the speed of sound in air. Electric fields, Coulomb's law, potential and potential difference, capacitors in series and parallel and the energy they store. The motor effect and Fleming's left-hand rule, forces between parallel currents, the DC motor and the moving-coil galvanometer, the force on a moving charge and crossed fields. Analogue and digital signals, logic gates, Boolean notation, integrated circuits. The photoelectric effect, and the decay law, half-life and carbon dating. All four strands of Year 2 are in. |
| 📙 Ghana SHS Physics 3 (SHS 3) 35 lessons |
Year 3 of Ghana's SHS Physics curriculum. Moments, the principle of moments and equilibrium, the reactions at supports; Newton's law of universal gravitation, g and G, satellites, parking orbits, escape velocity and what weightlessness really is; the universe, astronomy and cosmology, how stars and the solar system formed, comets and asteroids, and how astronomy has been used in our own culture. Simple harmonic motion, its velocity, acceleration and energy, damping; collisions, impulse and momentum. Linear, area and volume expansivity and where expansion helps and harms. Lenses, the lens formula, and lasers. Current electricity, Ohm's law, resistivity, resistors in series and parallel, the rheostat and the potentiometer, Kirchhoff's laws, and turning a galvanometer into an ammeter or a voltmeter. Alternating current, peak and r.m.s. values, reactance, impedance and resonance, the power triangle and the power factor. Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's and Lenz's laws, Fleming's right-hand rule, the generators, inductance, the transformer and eddy currents. Rectification and smoothing, transistor amplifiers, the darkness detector and the battery charger. X-rays; fission, fusion and the nuclear reactor. All four strands of Year 3 are in. |
| 📏 WASSCE Physics practical: Paper 3 20 lessons |
WAEC's practical paper taught properly: reading instruments, the composite table, the graph and its slope, the precautions WAEC gives marks for (said as things you did), and the short questions after each experiment; then thirteen experiments worked in full — g with a pendulum and a spring, a metre rule on a knife edge, a glass block, a prism, a lens, a concave mirror, Ohm's law, the metre bridge, the potentiometer, the method of mixtures, cooling and the resonance tube — and the mistakes WAEC's examiners report. |
Every lesson that serves a course shows its topic number on its first page — for example
AP Physics 1 (College Board): 1.3 — so a teacher can match a lesson to the
topic being taught. A few topics are split into two lessons where there is a lot to learn.
Equations are shown in a box, one to a line, exactly as they are written in the course. v₀ means the starting velocity, Δ means “change in”, and ½ means a half.
Physics is drawn as much as it is written, so a lesson that needs a picture now has one: the forces on a book resting on a table, a graph with the area under it shaded, two arrows added corner to corner, a ball rolling, a loop, a seesaw, a narrowing pipe. The picture sits under the words on that page, with a line underneath saying what it shows.
The pictures are drawn by the app itself rather than downloaded, so they cost nothing to fetch, they appear with the connection dead, and they stay sharp whether the app is on a small phone or a projector.
Every course has them — 419 pictures in all, across more than three lessons in every five. Circuits are drawn with proper symbols, ray diagrams are worked out from the lens equation rather than sketched by hand, and the graphs carry their own axes and numbers. A lesson with no picture is one where a picture would add nothing: units and prefixes, or an argument rather than a thing.
▲ Back to the contentsTap a lesson and the guides appear. Those whose own work is in the lesson come first — Faraday for electromagnetic induction, Marie Curie for radioactivity — and every other guide follows. Any guide can present any lesson; if the topic was not the guide's own work, the app says so honestly rather than inventing a connection.
The pictures are drawn signs of each guide's work (a ring in the guide's colour, a plain figure, their initials and a small symbol), never a likeness or a photograph. The guides never speak: everything is said about them, by a narrator, and nothing is put in their mouths. Only people from history are used, never anyone living.
Press ▶ Play. The narrator tells the guide's story, then reads the lesson page by page; the part being read is highlighted, and the next page follows by itself. Pause stops, Back and Next move between pages, Say it again repeats the page and Slower slows the voice. A code box or a picture is not read out; the narrator says “look at the picture” instead. After the last page comes Start the drill.
The voice is the phone's own, so nothing is downloaded or sent anywhere. It can say a sign or a unit oddly: the words on the screen are always right. If Sounds are off in Settings, or the phone has no voice, the pages still appear and Next moves through them.
Each subject's lessons are fetched from its own app the first time that subject is chosen (about 3.5 to 4.5 MB), so that first time needs the internet; after that it works offline.
On many pages a small moving cartoon shows the action being taught: a ball falling, a pendulum swinging, particles in a solid, liquid and gas, ions moving in electrolysis, a heart beating, a cell dividing, water crossing a membrane in osmosis, and more than twenty others. Each says in words what it shows, and where it is a model rather than the real thing (an atom is not really like a little solar system), it says so. The cartoons are drawn by the phone, so they cost no data.
A teacher can record a lesson in their own voice. On the guides screen, press 🎙️ Teacher: record your own voice for this lesson (it asks the grown-ups' question first), type your name as the learners will see it, then go page by page: ● Record, read the page aloud, ■ Stop. ▶ Listen plays it back and 🗑 Delete takes it away. The first page is an optional welcome in your own words. A page you leave unrecorded is read by the phone's voice.
From then on, that lesson's guides screen shows your teacher's own voice first, and a learner who chooses it hears you, page by page, with the pictures and cartoons as usual.
The recordings stay on this phone only. They are never sent anywhere, so learners hear them on this phone (for example in class, or on a family phone); they are not in a backup file, and clearing the browser's data for this website deletes them. The phone asks once for permission to use the microphone; say yes.
On the presentation screen, 🗣️ Choose the reading voice lists the voices on this phone (some deeper, some lighter) and the ways of speaking (Ghanaian, British, American and others, where the phone has them). 🔊 Hear this voice lets you listen before choosing. The choice is kept for that learner. An iPhone can add more voices in its own Settings, under Accessibility, Spoken Content, Voices.
The app does not copy a teacher's voice to read new text. That would mean sending the teacher's voice to an outside company; a teacher who wants pupils to hear their own voice records the pages instead (above).
Read it myself instead on the guides screen shows the plain pages, one at a time — Next page and Back move between them. On the last page, Start the drill appears. A learner who already knows the lesson can tap I know this — go straight to the drill from any page.
| Kind | What the learner does |
|---|---|
| Choose the answer | Reads the question, works it out, and taps one of four answers. The wrong answers are the mistakes pupils really make — forgetting a square, mixing up sine and cosine, leaving out a direction — so guessing does not pay. |
| Put the steps in order | Taps the steps of a method — solving a projectile problem, for example — in the right order. Each right step is numbered; the first wrong tap ends the question and the right order is shown. |
Physics is worked out on paper, so any question with numbers in it has a yellow pencil button in its top corner. Tapping it opens a sheet of squared paper with the question written across the top. The learner writes on it with a finger or a pen — Rubber takes a stroke away, Undo takes back the last one, Clear wipes the sheet — and Back to the question returns to the answers. Nothing written there is saved or marked: the paper is wiped when the next question comes, exactly as a rough sheet is. On a phone with a stylus, a hand resting on the screen will not draw.
After every answer, right or wrong, the app shows the right answer and why it is right, usually with the working. Nothing moves on by itself: the learner reads the explanation and taps Next question. A drill that only says “wrong” teaches a learner to guess faster.
About four in ten questions in a round are drawn from what that learner has missed before, so weak spots are practised until they are secure. Mixed revision on the home screen draws questions from every lesson the learner has started.
▲ Back to the contentsReports, 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 course, and under each course's lessons Back to the list of parts brings you back up. Then comes Mixed revision, then the lessons grouped by course. Each lesson tile shows its number, how many pages and questions it has, and — once drilled — the percentage right so far.
Scores over time, seconds per question, a bar for each lesson, and the lesson board: every lesson, course by course — green where it is secure, yellow nearly there, pink needing more work, plain not started.
The questions this learner gets wrong most often, hardest first, with a button to practise exactly those. Use it twice a week.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Questions per round | 5, 10, 15 or 20. A lesson's drill never repeats a question to fill a round, so a short lesson gives a shorter drill. |
| Sounds | Turns the tones off. Useful in a classroom. |
| Animations | Turns off movement. |
| Bring back questions I missed more often | Weaves past mistakes back into rounds. Leave it on. |
| Way of speaking and voice | Kept for later. The lessons are not read aloud yet. |
The report is written from the learner's own recorded answers. It shows drills done, accuracy, lessons started and secure, each course 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.
Understanding matters more than speed, and physics questions take time to work out. A dip in recent scores often just means newer lessons are harder. Four or five drills must exist before a trend means anything.
With a class licence, the teacher's dashboard shows every learner on the device, sorted so whoever needs attention comes first, and what the class as a whole finds hard. It can also take a backup file sent from a learner's own phone, so home practice appears with the class. A teacher using Wake Mark.Book.Ap can bring the weekly drill marks into their mark book.
The app shows the words with a Copy button, and you paste them wherever you like. Copy first and nothing can be lost.
▲ 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 contentsAlmost 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.
The right answer and the wrong ones are far enough apart that careful working decides between them. Read the working in the explanation: the usual cause is a missed square, a minus sign, or a value left in kilometres or grams instead of metres or kilograms.
Read the explanation after the answer slowly, then go back to that lesson's pages. The app will keep bringing the question back until it is right — that is practice, not a fault.
Please tell us through Support, saying which lesson and question. Every report is checked and corrected.
Use the Copy the words button and paste into your email by hand.
▲ Back to the contentsEvery result lives in this browser on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to us. That keeps a learner's data private — and it means that clearing the browser, changing phone or reinstalling will lose the work unless you have saved a backup.
Settings → Save a backup writes a small file to the device. Email it to yourself and it is safe. Do this at the end of each term, and before changing phone. To bring it back: Settings → Restore from a backup. If the learner already exists on the device, the copy with more history is kept, so restoring can never quietly lose work.
Settings → Clear results wipes that learner's scores, charts, points, questions missed and which lessons have been read. The learner stays, and so does your subscription.
Settings → Erase this pupil removes that learner and all their results from the device. It cannot be undone, so save a backup first. If the subscription was bought on this learner, it goes with them — to start fresh, use Clear results instead.
Wake Video.Lessons.Ap · user manual · for app version 0.1. One of the Wake Learning Apps. AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which does not endorse this app.
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