AHA teacher assistant · design directions · round 1 (superseded) · 12 Oct 2026

Five directions, the same four screens

Each direction draws the four moments that matter: Quick tap (entering one learner's results), Scan (reading a printed answer sheet), Results (what the class missed) and the Remediation plan (ILAW). The markup, the data and the numbers are identical in all five. Only colour, type, shape and texture change, so the comparison is fair. Every page has a Name picker in its header, so any name can be tried in any direction.

Not for teachers or the public yet. The class, the learners and the exam are illustrative. The figures are computed by the real rules in docs/02-requirements/05-business-rules.md.

Direction 1

Red Pen

Recommended

The teacher's own checking table. Pad paper with blue rules, ballpoint-blue ink, and the red pen for everything the teacher does. Wrong items get a drawn red X, the score is circled the way teachers mark papers, and the Draft notice is a margin note. Mastery levels never use the red pen's red.

Atkinson Hyperlegible + Kalam (annotations only) · light · about 85 KB of fonts

All four Quick tap Scan Results Plan

Direction 2

Class Record

The register coordinators and divisions already trust. Ruled ledger green, sections that share rules instead of floating as cards, every figure in mono, Quick tap as a register row with a TOTAL line, ILAW parts as boxed form codes, and Draft as a rubber stamp.

IBM Plex Sans + IBM Plex Mono · light · about 80 KB of fonts

All four Quick tap Scan Results Plan

Direction 3

Pisara

The chalkboard in every classroom. Board green, chalk white and yellow chalk for actions. The logo is a tally crossed by a check, the score spread is drawn as tally marks, the hero figure gets a chalk underline, and the answer sheet is white paper held up to the board.

Kalam (headings) + Lexend · dark · about 90 KB of fonts · daylight legibility to test

All four Quick tap Scan Results Plan

Direction 4

Bayanihan

The community carrying the learner forward. Sunlit cream, sea-indigo and mango. A banig weave runs along the edges, the learner groups climb steps together (Mastered helps Approaching helps Needs support), and a half sun rises over a woven horizon. The one funders and AHA's comms team will like most.

Bricolage Grotesque + Figtree · light · about 70 KB of fonts

All four Quick tap Scan Results Plan

Direction 5

Everyday

Alternate

Like the apps teachers already use every day. E-wallet patterns: white cards, one cobalt, big bold numbers, status pills, a sticky bottom action, and the ILAW plan as a receipt with notched edges. Nothing to learn and nothing to download: it uses the phone's own font.

System font only · light · 0 KB of fonts · fastest on a 2 GB phone

All four Quick tap Scan Results Plan

Identical in all five

One class: Grade 4 Sampaguita, 40 fictional learners, a 40-item Term 1 Math test. MPS 57.3%. Least mastered: perimeter of composite figures (24.4%), estimating differences (27.5%), estimating sums (37.5%).
One set of rules: mastery cutoff 75%, groups Needs support / Approaching / Mastered, item flags. Each figure is computed once from prototype/content/ by _shared/build_data.py, which fails if the numbers drift.
The same guards: an Offline indicator and a "Prototype · illustrative data" line on every screen, text contrast of at least 4.5:1, mastery always labelled in words and never shown by colour alone, and tap targets of at least 44 px.

Names

The shortlist and every check are in docs/01-brand/names.md. Domains were checked on 12 Oct 2026. Trademark (IPOPHL), .ph and social handles still need a manual check.

NameSaysWhy it works · watchDomains

GapMendFind the gap, mend itThe only name that says the whole loop. English, app-style..com free.app free

TallyfreeNo more tallyingNames the exact pain ("pagod pa sa calculator"). Warm, a little playful. Watch: says the relief, not the remediation..com free.app free

TanawGuroThe teacher's view (tanaw, tan-aw)Local identity that works in Tagalog and Cebuano, good for a Cebu pilot and funders. Watch: harder for non-Filipino readers..com free.app free

AhaCheckThe aha moment, checkedTies the product to AHA Learning Center. Watch: only if AHA wants its name on it..com free.app free

Recommendation (recommend, never pick)

Red Pen, with Everyday as the alternate. Red Pen is the only direction that could not belong to any other product. It is built from the exact moment the app replaces, the teacher with a red pen and a stack of papers, and it stays calm and legible in daylight. Everyday is the choice if speed on the cheapest phones outweighs character, since it downloads no fonts at all.

Name: GapMend says what the product does, and Tallyfree says why teachers will want it. Red Pen carries either. Pick with Patrick, then confirm with AHA.

How to review

Open a direction and use All four / Quick tap / Scan / Results / Plan in the header. On a phone, open one screen at a time.
On Quick tap, tap items to flip them between correct and wrong: the tally updates. On Scan, the A to D chips can be changed.
Try each name with the Name picker. Choose one direction and one name (or two finalists) for G1.