Praxis · Education

Odyssey

Odyssey is a reading and math game for grades 3 to 8: thirty-six adventures, one a week, five missions each, about twenty minutes a day. Every mission has three legs — a nonfiction passage with questions, five math problems at the grade you set, and one follow-the-directions task — with a guide named Sitka who hints and never scolds.

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Start with the first adventure. No account, no sign-in. Once it is on the device it plays with no connection.

Odyssey at base camp: Flattop Mountain, with the week’s missions listed beneath it.

A mission has three legs

One mission a day, about twenty minutes. The same three legs every time, so a child always knows what is coming.

A nonfiction passage in Odyssey with the first of its five questions below it.

Recon

A nonfiction passage, then questions that can only be answered from the page.

An Odyssey math problem built from the adventure’s own story.

Navigation

Five math problems at the grade you set, built out of the same story.

A follow-the-steps task in Odyssey: six numbered steps to read before starting, with a box to type the answer.

Orders

One follow-the-directions task, where reading every step before you start is the point.

A school year, one adventure a week

Thirty-six adventures

Each adventure is five missions, one a day. Finish one and its medal goes on the shelf.

Sitka changes shape to fit

The guide takes a new form for each adventure. A wrong answer gets a nudge and a second look, never a scolding.

Odyssey’s campaign chooser showing several adventures, each with its own artwork and guide form.

Medals, and a field report for the parent

The Odyssey medal shelf below a mission card: three medals earned so far, the rest of the year still waiting.

The shelf fills as the year goes

One medal for every campaign finished, in bronze, silver or gold.

The parent area sits behind a code you set

Behind it is a field report: what was practised, what came on the first try, what needed a hint, and how long it took. It is a log, not a grade. Sending it opens your own share sheet, so it goes only where you send it.

Odyssey’s parent report, day by day: four days of missions, each with its score out of 100 and how the reading, math and directions questions went.

A week at the other house is not a week lost

If your child plays Odyssey in more than one place — two homes, a tablet and a laptop — one code carries the whole year across: every mission finished, every star, every medal. Open Settings, choose Moving to another device, and copy the code or send it in a message. Add it at the other end, in another tablet or just a browser on a laptop, with nothing to install.

It only ever adds. Nothing on either device is replaced or lost, so the code can travel in both directions, every week, for as long as you need it. Use it again after every week apart.

Use an ordinary browser window rather than a private one. A private window throws everything away when it closes, and Odyssey will say so rather than let a day disappear quietly.

Available in the browser and in the app.

Odyssey’s Settings screen, showing “Moving to another device”: a button to show the code, one to copy it, and a box to paste in a code from another device.

What Odyssey does not do

No account, no sign-in

Start with the first adventure. There is nothing to create and nothing to log into.

Nothing collected

Nothing about a child is collected and nothing about a child is ever sent to us. Progress lives on the device it was played on.

No ads, no analytics, no trackers

None of them, on any screen.

No signal needed

Once it is on the device it plays with no connection.