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Studying without a network, and getting your answers back
Courses download and can be read without a network; your answers are sent as soon as the signal returns. It is a design constraint held since the very first module, and it works on an ordinary phone and a modest data plan.
What you can take offline
Downloading is triggered from the lesson, on an available connection, and then frees up several hours of work without a network. That is what makes a commute, a break or an evening in a poorly covered area genuinely usable.
- The full text of the sequence, laid out for a small screen
- The guided exercises and their briefs
- The documents shown in live sessions
- The audio of a session, in a lightweight version
- Your own notes taken on the lesson
The journey of an answer
- 01
You answer offline
Answers are stored on the device, with the time at which you wrote them.
- 02
The signal returns
Sending starts by itself, with no action needed. An unstable network is enough: sending resumes where it stopped.
- 03
The receipt arrives
Timestamped at the time of writing, not the time of sending. That is what makes offline work usable before a deadline.
- 04
Progress updates
Stages cleared offline join your tracking, and the tutor takes them into account at your next question.
What phone-first design changes
Content weight
Every lesson is produced for a modest data plan. Text carries the teaching, video supports it.
Resuming after a cut
An interrupted read resumes at the exact point, and an interrupted upload restarts from where it stopped.
Access from across the region
A programme assuming a permanent connection selects its learners. This one starts from the connection actually available.
The volume a programme represents
Offline use is judged on real volumes. The figures below are read from the official catalogue: they give the amount of teaching that passes through this route over a full programme.
- of teaching over a long programme
- 1800 h
- over a short course
- 40 h
- of work per credit
- 25 h
Taught volume of the computing programme.
Taught volume of a short catalogue format.
Of which 15 h of personal study, largely doable off-network.
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