Timeback is where your child does their learning at Alpha Anywhere. It's the home base they'll open every day. This guide walks you through the main sections of Timeback and what your child will be doing in each one.

Before starting placements, ensure your child has watched the Player’s Guide and completed the introductory quiz to unlock further sections. Ensure that the video is watched in its entirety, as subjects and assignments will only become accessible after completing the full video.

Students see their daily goal with today's ring and subject cards, My Level, their To-Do List, Streaks, and the XP and Alphas they earn.

Your child’s level sets their goal: their ring. At Bronze, it’s 60 minutes of focused work a day, Silver is 90 minutes, Gold is 120 minutes, and Platinum is 120 XP. At Diamond, the top level, the goal is the whole week: every subject reaches its weekly XP goal. Work in each subject fills the ring, and a card for each subject shows its recommended amount. See Levels: your daily goal.

The goal is to fill today’s ring. When the ring is full, your child wins the day. At Diamond, the ring is the week’s. Each subject has a recommended share, and the To-Do List crosses a subject off when it reaches that share.

My Level” shows a badge, goal, and Road to the next level. On Platinum, the road shows when your child qualifies for Diamond, and warns them if missing today would cost them the move. At Diamond, it shows what keeps them there instead.

Clicking the "See All Levels & Rules" button on the level card will show the full rules, and the Help (?) button in the top nav bar replays the levels tour. For how levels work, see Levels: your daily goal.

Filling the ring pays a Win the Day chest of Alphas that day. The chest size doubles with each level: XS at Bronze, S at Silver, M at Gold, and L at Platinum. Diamond has no Win the Day: its prizes are weekly (XL).

Win the Week is Diamond’s prize. Filling the week’s ring halfway pays a Halfway chest, and hitting every counting subject’s weekly goal unlocks the Win the Week chest: a mystery prize and 1 streak shield. Writing does not count. In a shorter week, the goal and both chests shrink with the learning days.

Everything your child needs to do today, as one list. Tests come first, then their subjects, with Writing last. The list is already in the recommended order, so they can work top to bottom - but they can click any row out of order if they want to. Each row crosses itself off when that subject's daily goal is met, and clicking a row opens that exact lesson or test.

Assigned Tests: Any tests assigned to your child appear at the top of today's "to-do list". This includes placement tests, MAP tests, and Grade Test-outs. Click the test card to start the test.

On the right side of the Home screen, you can track your current streaks, view your streak Calendar, view available streak Shields, and purchase new streak shields.

Streak multipliers are applied after the student accumulates 5+ streak days in a row. Writing - AlphaWrite earnings are not eligible for streak bonuses.

If you don’t earn a streak day at the end of the learning day, a shield will be used to protect their streak. If they don’t have any shields, they lose the streak. Shields can be bought. They are never auto-purchased to protect a streak.

Use this to move to the other pages in Timeback: Home, Mastery Track (with each subject), Learning Badges, Life Skills, and the Hive.

You will see all your notifications (bell icon), Alpha balance, current streak, available settings, and an option to replay feature walkthroughs (question mark icon) at the top right of your screen.

Tapping the Alpha balance opens a panel showing what hasn't been deposited yet, what's in checking and what's in savings, with a button to open Alpha Bank. This is how students get to Alpha Bank.

In the Mastery Track, you will be able to see exactly how you are progressing toward your goals.

Students can jump into their lessons, start their tests, book post-test coaching sessions, see their results, and review the tests from here.

All students start with Placement tests. These confirm the best starting point so you build on solid foundations - this is called the Placement process.

Click the test you would like to work on to open its Test page. Then click Start Placement Test to launch the placement test in AlphaTest

​For step-by-step instructions, see How to take tests in AlphaTest.

The Pomodoro timer sits in the background as a guide, not a hard rule, and is not the time that gets logged; it simply shows how long the student has been working as a helpful tool.

Learning time is recorded officially from other trackers, which factor in waste time. With the pomodoro, if a child steps away and comes back, the timer keeps running. That time would not get recorded as focused time for the daily goal. Students can pause it anytime, and if they finish their work early, they can end the session early (no need to wait out the clock).

Once today's ring is full, they've met their goal for the day.

The Learning Goals page on the parents' portal is where you review your child's daily or weekly progress.

I don't see any login details when I start an activity

Try signing in to the learning app with Google, using your child's student email credentials. You can find it in your parents' portal

My child doesn't have any activities assigned

New students may need to complete Placement tests first. Reach out to support if you are unsure. After completing onboarding, verify that assignments and lessons are visible in the app. If content still does not appear, ensure all required steps have been followed correctly before reaching out to support.

Ensure your child has completed the Player’s Guide and quiz before proceeding to Placement tests. Make sure the video is watched completely, as content will not appear until the onboarding process is fully completed.

My metrics aren't updating

This is usually normal - some apps take time to report. Focus on completing the work, and check back later in the day. If content is still missing after completing onboarding, try restarting the app as a troubleshooting step.

A subject shows a banner saying its app isn't working.

That subject has no goal today, and its XP goes to your child's other subjects. Work on the other subjects, and ask Alphie if you need help.

Need help? Talk to Alphie, our smart AI assistant, in the Parent Portal or TimeBack. If he can't sort it out, he'll connect you with our team.