Straightforward answers to the questions families and programs ask most often about StoryPath.
Three subjects are taught directly through lessons: Math, Literacy, and Social Studies. These hold the curriculum and its standards alignment, and they are where a child practices and is assessed on skills.
More is learned along the way. The modules a child unlocks on the WorldFinder map cover geography, world history, animals and their habitats, and world culture. And because StoryPath delivers its learning as stories to be read, a child builds reading ability steadily throughout, whatever subject they happen to be working on.
StoryPath runs on a computer or an iPad. On a computer it works right in the web browser, so there is nothing to download or install. On an iPad it runs as a dedicated app from the App Store.
No. StoryPath plans and delivers every lesson and grades every answer. The curriculum is already built, mapped to the standards, and organized into units, so there is nothing for you to write or prepare. When a child finishes a lesson or an exam, it is scored automatically and the result appears on the educator dashboard.
Your part is to set a child up with the favorites their stories are built from, and follow their progress. Your child picks their own theme. The aim is not to replace your teaching. It is to take the routine of planning and grading off your hands, so the time you spend with a child can go to connecting with them.
A lesson is short. There is no single number to give for it, because the time depends on the child, especially their reading pace. Most children move through a lesson without it feeling long.
An exam is timed, and the limit depends on the grade. It runs from roughly 20–25 minutes in Grade 1 up to about 45–50 minutes in Grade 5, with the other grades in between. Because an exam cannot be paused, it is best begun when a child has a clear, uninterrupted stretch of time.
A child’s grade in StoryPath is set on its own, separate from their age, so you can place a child at the level that fits them rather than the one their birthday assigns. That grade can be adjusted later as they grow.
Within a grade, the work moves at the child’s pace. If a child needs more of a challenge, you can raise the difficulty of their work, which makes the challenges more demanding while keeping them on the same grade-appropriate concepts; a later unit can also be opened early if it suits them.
If a child struggles with a skill, it does not hold them back. A low score on a skill is recorded, and the child carries on through the rest of the unit; the skill then comes back around once they have worked through the others. In the meantime the educator can see it, which makes it easy to step in with extra instruction, hands-on if they choose, and the child can retake the skill at any time.
A lesson is “passed” when the child scores 70% or above on it. The first time a child passes a given skill, that lesson earns a collectible toward the WorldFinder world map. Below the passing score the lesson still counts as practice and still feeds the child’s skill progress, but no collectible is added.
When a child finishes their first try on a skill below the passing score, the session ends on a gentle screen that acknowledges the work and offers a path into the Review page for that lesson. The Review page walks through each question the child got wrong, one at a time, with a short re-teach and a fresh question on the same idea. It is built for a slower second look at the material, away from the timing of a full session.
The Review page is also reachable later from the child’s own history in GrowthGuide, so they can come back to a past lesson and work through it again on their own schedule.
Yes. From the educator dashboard you control which parts of StoryPath each student can use. LessonSmith, SideQuest, and exams can each be turned on or off for a child.
Exams give you a further measure of control. An exam is a single attempt by default. Once a child has taken it, you can look over their results, work with them directly on the skills they found hard or have them revisit the relevant lessons, and then reopen the exam for another try when they are ready.
Yes. One StoryPath account is built to hold a whole family or class. You add each child to your roster as their own student, with their own progress, their own stories, and their own themes and preferences. A single account can hold up to thirty students, room enough for a large family or a sizable class.
Billing follows your roster: you pay per active student slot, with a one-slot account minimum that begins when the account is created. See the “active student” answer below for the full billing setup.
Yes. A student is not locked to the account they were first created on. Any student can be transferred from one account to another, which handles this in either direction.
A homeschooling family that set up children on separate accounts can transfer them onto one account and run everything from a single roster. And in a tutoring or enrichment program, where each teacher keeps their own class roster, a student can be moved from one teacher’s roster to another at any time.
No. There is no chatbot in StoryPath, and no open text box where a child types to an AI. A child reads their stories and answers practice questions by choosing from a set of options. Even the themes and preferences a story is built from are entered by an adult, through the educator dashboard.
AI is what makes a personal, story-based lesson possible for every child. StoryPath’s curriculum sets out what each lesson teaches, the skills and the standards behind them. The AI works from that curriculum, building the lesson and its story around that child’s theme and favorites.
The curriculum decides what is taught. The AI shapes how it reaches the child.
The strongest safeguard is the design itself. There is no place for a child to type to an AI, so a lesson is never shaped by something a child entered on their own. StoryPath is designed so that the themes and preferences behind a lesson are set by an adult, and the substance of every lesson is the curriculum rather than open-ended invention.
Beyond that, what an adult enters is screened before it is used, and lessons are generated to age-appropriate standards for children in grades one through five. Together this keeps content close to the curriculum and within what an adult has chosen for the child.
StoryPath uses the information you provide to run the learning experience: to deliver lessons, keep track of progress, and show you how a child is doing. It is not kept indefinitely.
Two pages set this out in full. The Privacy Policy explains what is collected and how it is handled. The Data Retention page explains how long each kind of information is held and when it is deleted. And you can delete a child’s information from your account yourself, at any time.
An active student is any student on your roster who has not been retired.
StoryPath charges $13.99 per active student slot per month. Your account is billed for one slot from the moment it is created. That first slot is your first student’s, billed whether or not it has been filled yet, and a slot is added for each additional student you add. To stop billing entirely, cancel the educator account.
Whether a student is active is a matter of status, not of how recently they signed in. A student stays active, and billed, until they are retired, either by you or automatically by StoryPath after twelve consecutive months with no sessions.
Retiring a student is how you take them off your active roster, done from the educator dashboard. A retired student can no longer sign in, and they stop counting toward your billing.
Retiring is not deleting. Everything the student did is kept, and a retired student can be reactivated at any time before their profile is eventually deleted, picking up exactly where they left off.
Retired students do not contribute to your billing. When you retire a student above the first seat, that seat stops billing for you; if you reactivate them later, billing resumes from there. The one-seat account minimum still applies, so an account with no active students is still billed for one seat. To stop billing entirely, cancel the educator account.
Yes, for a time. When a student is retired, everything they did is preserved: their progress and skill mastery, their exam history, what they collected, and the stories in “My Stories.” Reactivate the student and it is all still there.
It does not last forever, though. A retired student’s profile and all of its data are permanently deleted six months after they are retired. A student left unused is retired automatically after twelve months without a session, which starts that same six-month clock. And if a subscription is cancelled, the account and every student on it are kept for thirty days and then deleted. The Data Retention page sets out each of these timelines in full.