+1.23
points added to students’ average concept understanding on a 1-5 scale
Study supportstudents choose.Schools stayin control.
Curriculum-aware AI feedback and independent practice for Australian senior-secondary students - with supported onboarding, aggregate cohort insight and school-controlled safeguards.
- Paid, bounded pilot
- Aggregate reporting
- No teacher content-authoring requirement
Leaders in AI for Education
Australia-wide platform
Student communities learning with Polarbear nationwide
35K+
Australian students trust Polarbear for revision
1.5M+
Learning activities completed by Australian students
1,000+
Australian school communities represented by students* School count methodology available below.
How we count school communities
Based on self-reported school names matched against Australia’s official school registry and deduplicated by parent-school identifier. Ambiguous and unverified entries excluded. These verified database figures describe reach and usage, not causal academic, wellbeing or teacher-workload outcomes. “Represented” means student presence, not a customer, partner, endorsement or formal school rollout.
What students told us in 2026
149 students completed our State of Learning survey after studying with Polarbear. Here is what they reported.
70.5%
chose Polarbear as their favourite study platform
72.7%
of students felt more prepared for assessments
Voluntary in-product survey, 24-30 August 2026. Students who answered “not sure” are excluded from each before/after measure. Self-reported experience, not a causal academic outcome.
For Teachers
The commitments below are how the pilot is designed today. The drafting tools are concepts we want to shape with pilot teachers - part of the first conversation is deciding which of these would actually help your faculty.
Practice-paper drafting
Draft questions and marking guidance from teacher-supplied curriculum, outcomes and cohort context.
Illustrative concept
Senior English practice paper
Q1
Analyse how the writer positions the reader to share a point of view.
10 marksQ2
Compare how evidence is used across the two supplied texts.
8 marksQ3
Develop an extended response using one teacher-selected outcome.
12 marksRubric-assisted review
Surface evidence against a teacher-selected rubric, for you to check and adjust before anything counts.
Lesson-plan drafting
Structure a lesson draft around a teacher-defined objective and class context.
No second workload
The pilot never asks teachers to build lessons, question banks or assignments inside Polarbear. Launch support and the cohort report are handled for you.
Cover beyond the timetable
Students get explanations, essay feedback and focused practice through their own accounts - after hours, between touchpoints and during revision.
These are real screens from the live product students use today - not concept mockups. A rollout works when students want to come back.
Essay Marking
Comments they can use on the next edit. An overall result, criterion-level detail and comments beside the writing make the next move visible while the draft is still active.
Tutorbear
Help that begins with their actual question. Students bring in their notes, ask follow-ups and turn an explanation into a quick knowledge check inside their own workspace.
Exam Cram
Revision that asks for an answer. Focused questions, instant explanations and a second attempt move students beyond passive rereading.
Aggregate insight and boundary controls, delivered through a supported pilot. The report is pilot-delivered and the admin surface is pilot-gated - there is no live self-serve dashboard yet.
Cohort Insight Report
Signal, not surveillance. A fortnightly aggregate report on activation, weekly use, product mix and subject demand - with small groups suppressed and no student-content feed.
*Pilot-delivered report, not a live dashboard.
School settings
Controlled settings default off. A pilot only enables what has been operationally approved and agreed with the school.
Note Taker
Public publishing
Product analytics
No student-content feed
Administration deliberately has no student list, transcript, note or essay-content view. That boundary is a product decision, not a missing screenshot.
A launch that has an owner
A 45-minute launch session, a defined setup path, parent communication material and founder-led support keep the rollout on rails.
The week is full. The teaching isn't.
Australian full-time lower-secondary teachers report a 46.5-hour working week, compared with 41 hours across the OECD. These figures are external workforce context, not a claim that Polarbear saves teacher time - which is exactly why the pilot is designed to add no authoring workload.
Reported weekly working hours
Australia
46.5h
OECD average41h
69%
report too much administrative work as a source of stress
1 in 5
intend to leave teaching within five years
Privacy and Control
Polarbear separates the work a student does from the aggregate signals a school pilot can use - and states that boundary precisely enough for the next ICT conversation.
In the student's space
Here's my intro - is the thesis actually arguing?
It asserts. Add one "because" line and it argues.
Real work, revised in private
Tasks, Tutorbear feedback and retries stay with the student - never a school-admin content feed.
At the privacy boundary
At the boundary
Aggregate cohort activationcrosses
Aggregate weekly use and demandcrosses
Essay draftsnever
Tutorbear conversationsnever
Only permitted signals combine
Agreed cohort-level patterns cross. Individual notes, prompts, essays and Tutorbear conversations do not become a school-admin content feed.
In the school's view
Illustrative pilot reportExample only
Activation74%
Weekly use
Top demandExam practiceEssay feedback
A concise signal, then judgement
A pilot-delivered cohort report summarises activation, weekly use, product mix and demand - staff decide where human support helps.
Controls exist, and default off.
The school-control surface exists in the product code, but access is feature-gated and controlled settings default off. A pilot only enables what has been operationally approved and agreed with the school.
No school-admin content feed. The current surface does not expose student notes, prompts, essays or conversations.
No Australia-only claim. Some service providers may process data overseas; the privacy policy contains the current detail.
View our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
School settings
Note Taker
Allow note-capture functionality for the school environment.
Public publishing
Control whether school-linked work can be published publicly.
Product analytics
Control analytics for the school environment.
Append-only change history
Setting changes recorded with actor and timeNo change
The Supported Pilot
A small rollout with a real finish line: access, launch, aggregate insight and a scheduled decision - agreed up front, priced as a paid pilot and measured honestly. No open-ended free trial.
Designed to run with no teacher content-authoring requirement. Each public inclusion still requires an assigned Polarbear delivery owner before a pilot starts.
What you get:
The Polarbear study suite
A defined senior cohort receives access to the agreed product tier, including guided tutoring, essay feedback and focused exam practice.
A fortnightly cohort report
A concise report on activation, weekly use, product mix and subject demand - with small groups suppressed and no student-content feed.
Onboarding that has an owner
A 45-minute launch session, a defined setup path and founder-led support keep the pilot bounded and moving.
Controls and rollout materials
Pilot-gated settings, parent communication material and an explicit access boundary help schools evaluate the rollout honestly.
Measure the rollout. Do not manufacture the result.
The first pilots should create stronger evidence - with a baseline, a denominator, privacy thresholds and room for results that do not improve.
No public claim yet about grade gains, stress reduction or teacher time saved. Those claims stay withheld until a reviewed study meets the evidence gate.
Activation
Share and count of the invited cohort completing account linking and one meaningful learning activity by week three.
Useful repeat use
How many students return across distinct weeks - not just how many accounts exist.
Where value occurs
Aggregate product, subject and topic demand, with privacy thresholds applied.
Champion usefulness
Whether the report prompts a useful school action and whether the rollout should continue.
Our timeline
Step 01 · Together
Scope
Agree the cohort, timing, success measures and privacy questions.
Step 02 · You
Agreement
Confirm the paid pilot scope, invoice or PO and annual decision point.
Step 03 · Us
Set up
Provision the agreed cohort and prepare staff and family communications.
Step 04 · Together
Launch
Run the 45-minute session and give students a clear first study job.
Step 05 · Us
Measure
Review activation at week three, then deliver mid and end reports.
Step 06 · Together
Decide
Meet against the agreed evidence and choose whether to continue annually.
Pricing and procurement
We agree the cohort, delivery window and success measures first. School purchasing then follows a proposal and invoice or purchase order - never a consumer checkout.
Paid pilot
The fee, scope and delivery window are confirmed in the founder discussion.
Pilot credit
The proposal can credit the pilot toward an annual licence if the school continues.
School procurement
A whole-cohort annual quote follows the agreed pilot - with invoice or PO support.
Frequently Asked Questions
The initial offer is designed for Australian senior-secondary cohorts. Exact curriculum, year level, subject coverage and cohort fit are confirmed during scoping because availability varies by product and curriculum.
Scope a pilot for your school.
Tell us about your cohort, timing and role. We will use the first conversation to confirm fit, product boundaries and the delivery path - including where Polarbear is not yet the right answer.
- A bounded cohort and agreed success measures
- A clear invoice or purchase-order path
- No school CTA routed through consumer checkout
