Cambridge 0478 · 9618 · KS3 Computing

Master the Machine.

Written notes, video lessons, interactive labs and real exam practice — and a tutor who can see exactly which topic is going wrong.

IGCSE 0478 A-Level 9618
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65 lessons · IGCSE

Video Lessons

One short video per sub-topic, in syllabus order. The playlist keeps playing in the corner while you read the written notes.

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Watch it, read it, then be made to prove it

Four things that are easy to say and hard to build. This is what each one means here.

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Watch

65 video lessons, one per sub-topic, in syllabus order.

The player floats above the page and does not stop when you move — so you can open the written notes for the thing being explained while it is still being explained. Pausing to go and find the notes is where revision usually dies.

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Read

64 IGCSE topic notes, written against the syllabus.

Ordered the way the specification is ordered, so revising by section is possible, and printable as clean PDF when you want paper in front of you in the exam room.

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Practise

199 interactive tasks across 38 pseudocode lessons, plus the logic, SQL and trace-table labs.

Most tasks are drag-and-drop rather than typing, because the exam marks the logic, not the semicolons. Marking happens on the server — the answers are never sent to the page, so there is nothing to peek at.

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Be found out

Every task is tagged to a syllabus topic.

So the report is not “6 out of 10”. It is “keeps getting MOD wrong”. A hint arrives only after two honest attempts and the worked answer only after three — and the fact that you needed it is part of the record, because that is the useful part.

And if none of it lands, there is a button that says so. One tap in the middle of a task, in your own words. Your tutor sees it with the exact step attached — so the quiet students stop being the invisible ones.
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This is what a task actually feels like

Four lines, one sensible order. Think: you cannot use something before you have got it. Same engine as the real lessons — nothing here is a mock-up.

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Drag into order

Work out the area of a circle

Drag a line to move it — on a phone, press and hold first. Or use the ↑ ↓ buttons, or focus a line and press the arrow keys.

That is one of 199 tasks. The rest include fill-the-gaps, matching, trace tables and multiple choice — and every one of them is tagged to a syllabus topic, which is how a tutor finds out what you have not understood.

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Syllabus-aligned notes covering all IGCSE theory and practical topics.

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Hands-on practice with our Logic Designer and SQL Sandbox.

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For tutors, teachers & the students who need one

Where the work becomes visible to somebody who can help

Notes and videos are the easy half. The hard half is a tutor knowing what to teach on Tuesday. Everything a student does here is tagged to a syllabus topic, which is what makes that answerable — but only after both people have agreed to it.

How a tutor and a student get connected

  1. A tutor chooses to be listed. The directory shows nobody who did not opt in. A profile carries the stages taught — IGCSE, AS, A2 — along with country, city, languages and whether the tutoring is online, in person, or either. Students filter on exactly those.
  2. Someone makes the first move. A student sends an enquiry from the directory, or a tutor invites a student they already teach. Either way it becomes a link request, not a link.
  3. The other person answers it. Whoever did not send the request is the one who accepts or declines. Nothing is shared until they do.
  4. Then everything opens at once. Messaging, a shared calendar, homework assignment, and the student's topic-by-topic record. One handshake, four doors.
Three rules that do not bend. Nobody can be messaged out of the blue — a conversation only exists where a link has been asked for or accepted. A calendar belongs to the two people in it, and to nobody else: not a head of department, not the platform administrator. And nothing crosses a school boundary in either direction.

What a tutor actually sees

  • Named weaknesses, not scores. The topics a student keeps getting wrong, ranked, per student and across the whole class at once.
  • Whether help was needed. Hints taken and answers revealed are recorded, so a right answer on the fourth attempt does not read like a right answer on the first.
  • Open “I'm stuck” flags with the student's own words and the exact step attached — and a way to mark them resolved.
  • Accuracy, lessons finished, and last seen — enough to notice somebody has quietly stopped.
  • Homework you choose. Assign anything from the built-in course, or write your own lessons using the same task types and publish them to your students.
  • Messages and bookings in the same place as the work they are about, including repeating weekly sessions and a meeting link.
Tutors pay per student, not per feature. 50 tokens covers one monitored student for 30 days, taken from a token wallet — no card on file, and nothing to cancel. Let it lapse and monitoring simply pauses; the student never loses access to their own work, and the link survives until you top up.
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One flat annual fee for the institution — enrol the entire year group without the price moving. Inside a school the consent handshake is not needed: the class roll is the permission, because the school enrolled both parties. Nobody asks a fifteen-year-old to approve their own timetable.

  • Unlimited learners, teachers and classes
  • Bulk enrolment and Google Workspace sign-in
  • The head of department runs their own staff accounts
  • Department-wide analytics, by syllabus topic
  • A lapsed licence freezes the teaching tools — never a student's own lessons

The question a department actually has on a Monday is not “what is the class average”. It is “which topic do I have to reteach, and to whom”.

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