Only today. One step at a time.
Sometimes there are so many school tasks that a child finds it hard to know where to start or how to plan. TASA takes tasks and deadlines from the school e-diary, splits the work into steps of about 25 minutes, and shows the child only today.
Always free for families
Seeing a whole month of deadlines and tasks is too much
The e-diary shows everything: tests, essays, books to read and tomorrow's homework. For many children, that is overwhelming. They don't know where to start or how to plan, so they never start.
TASA doesn't replace eKool or Stuudium, Estonia's school e-diaries. It takes the information that is already there and turns it into one clear next step for the child.
The e-diary: every November deadline at once. TASA: just this one day.
From the e-diary to today's plan
Tasks come from the e-diary
Homework, deadlines, tests and grades come from eKool or Stuudium through the official interface, with the school's permission. Teachers don't need to do anything extra.
TASA splits tasks into small steps
Big work is split into steps of about 25 minutes, taking deadlines and the amount of work into account.
Every tick is a celebration
The child sees one “Do this now” card. Each finished step, or tick, brings an encouraging line to the screen. When the whole day's tasks are done, there is a small celebration on screen.
A plan that helps the child think ahead
TASA's long-term goal is to teach children self-management and time management, so that one day they can split their work into steps and plan their time on their own.
Test preparation
Revision starts 7 days before a test, especially in maths, chemistry and physics.
Retake plans
A grade below 3 (the default, which can be changed), or “not passed”, automatically becomes a retake plan. A parent can upload a photo of the marked test, and TASA plans the retake revision so the child can practise the problems that went wrong. TASA never solves or explains problems for the child.
Books into pages
Enter the book, the current page and the deadline. The plan says exactly “read pages 41–60”.
Leftovers come first
Whatever wasn't done yesterday is at the top of today's list. Nothing gets lost.
Required events
A weekly maths consultation, for example, shows up marked “Required”.
Parent view
A parent can excuse a task when the child is ill and mark rewards as paid. The child doesn't see the parent view.
Effort is visible. The parent decides what it means.
One reward that the parent defines: its name, its unit, and how much each step or full day earns. The child sees the balance.
The parent types what the reward is
- Screen time · minutes · +10 for each step
- Pocket money · euros · +3 for each fully finished day, +10 for a full week
- PS4 · stars · 1 for each step, goal 20 stars
- Movie night · stars · goal 10, the child picks the film
Or switch rewards off. The plan and the celebrations stay.
Free for families. Part of student support for schools.
For families
- Families never pay.
- The parent creates the account and gives consent.
- No sharing of e-diary passwords.
- Works on the web and on phones.
For schools and municipalities
- We are currently testing TASA with a small number of schools.
- We will share the pilot results on this website.
- You can register your interest now. Once the pilot is over, we will start taking on more schools.
- No extra work for teachers. By default, teachers don't see a child's plan.
Teaching planning is one of the best-proven school interventions for ADHD
Organisation and planning skills training
A review of school interventions for ADHD found that teaching organisation and planning skills is among the best-supported approaches.
Evans, Owens, Wymbs & Ray (2018), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyHOPS: homework planning at school
280 middle-school students with ADHD. A short school programme (16 sessions of 20 minutes or less) reduced homework problems and improved organisation and planning, as rated by parents and teachers.
Langberg et al., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · VCU news, 2017TASA makes those steps part of the child's every day: the goal is clear, a timer runs, and every finished step is celebrated.
A child's data belongs to the child
The parent holds the account
In Estonia a child under 13 can't give consent alone, so the parent gives it.
No passwords
Only official access to the e-diary, and for eKool only with the school's permission.
The minimum
No diagnoses or health data are stored.
Data stays in the EU
Hosting and AI services in the EU, with data processing agreements and no training on the data.
Export and delete
Parents can download the data or delete everything with one button.
Oversight
A plain-language privacy notice and a breach plan. The regulator is the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate.
It started with one family
Maria Hõbesalu built the first version for her son, to help him plan his studying and break it into small bites. It is in daily use. TASA grew from the wish to help other children learn to plan their time too.
Row slowly, go far.
From the Estonian proverb “Tasa sõuad, kaugele jõuad”.
Register your interest
If you are a school, a support centre or a municipality and would like to use TASA, let us know. We will contact you once the pilot is over and we start taking on more schools.
- Phone
- +372 5826 2802
- Company
- Sild Growth OÜ, reg. code 14067479
Telliskivi 33-1, 10611 Tallinn, Estonia