A small team in Melbourne, building the practice tool we wish we'd had.
study-canvas started with a simple frustration: senior-school maths is decided on paper, but every digital practice tool tries to drag you off the page. So we built one that doesn't.
Turn private practice into useful practice.
Most students lose marks not because they can't do the maths, but because nobody has ever shown them — line by line — where their working drifts from a canonical answer. A teacher with thirty students can't sit next to each of them for every practice question. We thought a tool could.
study-canvas is built around one idea: that handwriting on paper is not a limitation to work around, but the actual thing being taught. The product reads what you write, in the order you wrote it, and gives back feedback you can act on before the next attempt.
Four things that shape every decision.
The page is the medium.
Senior maths is decided on paper, in pen. A practice tool that pulls you off the page is teaching the wrong habit.
Feedback should be specific.
‘Try again’ is not feedback. Real feedback names the line, the step, and the canonical move that was missed.
Tied to the study design.
Questions and feedback are anchored to the VCE Methods study design. Practice should map to what you're actually examined on.
No dark patterns.
No streak shaming, no notification spam, no public scores. We build something we'd be happy for our own kids to use.
Three people, all of whom hold a current WWCC.
We're deliberately small. Every line of code and every canonical solution is written by someone on this list.
Mira Halvorsen
Co-founder · ProductFormer Methods tutor. Spent six years marking past papers and watching students lose marks for things nobody had ever explicitly told them. Builds the question side of the product.
Dev Patel
Co-founder · EngineeringWorked on handwriting and document-AI systems before this. Quietly obsessed with making the grader treat a half-erased squiggle the same way a kind teacher would.
Wren Okafor
Curriculum leadPractising VCE Mathematical Methods teacher. Writes and reviews every canonical solution that ships into the question bank. Refuses to approve anything she wouldn't accept in her own classroom.
A short, honest timeline.
- 2024
Two of us on a couch, marking up scanned past-papers by hand to see if line-level feedback would even work.
- 2025
First closed beta with a single Methods classroom in inner-north Melbourne. Forty students, three thousand marked lines.
- 2026
Public beta opens for VCE Methods Units 3/4. Subscription tier launches with a free tier that's actually usable.
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Teachers, parents, and students can all reach us directly. We answer email; we don't have a chatbot.