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DEXTER
A total learning system

The system designed for 21st century learning

Dexter is the teaching and learning layer your school is missing — one coherent system for lessons, content, assessment and engagement, built for how this generation actually learns.

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01 — Why Dexter exists

Learning has changed.

A student working on a laptop surrounded by notes and devices
Five or six apps in one study session, none of which speak to each other.

This generation doesn't just learn online — they learn digitally.

They ask ChatGPT before they ask their teacher. They watch YouTube explainers at 2× speed. They toggle between five apps in one study session. The world they're learning in is different from the one schools were designed for, and the gap widens every term.

The tools schools use were never built for any of this.

Zoom was built for corporate meetings. Google Classroom for distribution, not pedagogy. WhatsApp for friends. Schools have stitched consumer apps together and called it transformation, while the actual quality of learning has barely moved.

Acquiring knowledge is not learning.

Information access is a solved problem. What hasn't been solved is learning itself — which needs motivation, cognitive engagement, scaffolding, feedback and social context. Real learning happens between the information and the student, and that work is the work schools have always done.

02 — Who Dexter is for

See how you can innovate with Dexter.

For the tutor

Learners

Individual students seeking targeted help — exam preparation, subject mastery, language coaching, supplementary tuition. You know each one by name.

Content

Personalised lessons. Focused practice sets. One-to-one or small-group sessions. Content you build for each learner, reusable across all of them.

Today

Zoom, screen-share, maybe a Google Doc.

With Dexter

A real classroom — live class with shared whiteboard and recording, structured assignments with submission tracking, parent-visible progress, all in one place.

Getting started
1

Sign up in two minutes

Create your account with an email. No school code, no admin approval, no IT department.

2

Add your students

Invite up to ten students by email or phone. Each gets a Dexter login and the mobile app.

3

Run your classes

Lesson templates, live class tools, assignments and quizzes — the same surface a 2,000-student school gets.

4

Grow when you grow

Cross ten students and upgrade to Tuition. Account, students and history carry over — no migration.

Tutor

Freeforever · no card

Individual tutors with up to 10 students.

  • Both portals, full features
  • Up to 10 students
  • Community support
  • Upgrade anytime
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03 — What every plan includes

Every plan ships with the full stack.

Nothing is held back behind a tier. Tier differences are about scale — students, support level, white-label, integrations — not features. Prices sit with each audience above; every plan, free or paid, ships with all three surfaces below.

Surface 01

Teacher portal

The working surface, loaded with content and teaching tools.

  • Pre-loaded content library & lesson templates
  • Online class delivery — whiteboard, recording, breakouts
  • Assignments & auto-marked quizzes
  • Lesson planning & scheme of work
  • Student management & gradebook
  • Attendance, behaviour & pastoral notes
  • KHDA / ADEK / MoE reports in one click
  • Analytics & at-risk flagging
Surface 02

Student portal

A calm web home for learning — laptops, desktops and tablets.

  • Personal timetable & today's lessons
  • One-click live class access
  • Submit work in any format — text, file, video, voice
  • Personal progress dashboard
  • Library, past papers & revision packs
  • Quizzes & interactive exercises
  • Moderated, parent-visible teacher messaging
  • Age-adaptive interface — primary to sixth form
Surface 03

Student mobile app

Learning that travels — iOS and Android, fully offline-capable.

  • Native iOS & Android apps
  • Push notifications for lessons & assignments
  • Offline mode — read & submit without signal
  • Join live class from your phone
  • Submit photo or voice work directly
  • Calendar sync to phone calendar
  • Biometric login
  • Free with every plan — no extra licence

Included in every paid plan. A live support desk with a real team answering teacher and student questions in real time — not a chatbot, not a ticket queue. And free teacher AI-certification for every teacher on your account. Charities and small schools use Dexter free.

04 — What Dexter does

A teacher’s day should feel like flying a modern aircraft.

A pilot manages dozens of variables at once, but the cockpit is calm. Every instrument is where it should be, critical signals surface automatically, and routine work is handled by the systems — so the pilot makes the decisions only a human can make. Teachers deserve the same. Here is what that means in practice.

One system, not a stack of apps

  • Lessons, content, assignments, messaging and progress in one place — students stop toggling between five apps.
  • Teachers stop reconciling data from three systems; parents see one source of truth.
  • Built for students who already use ChatGPT and YouTube — mobile-first, multimedia-native, AI-aware.
  • Every feature exists to improve motivation, engagement or feedback quality — not just delivery.

A teacher's day, rebuilt

  • Attendance captured automatically, without taking a register.
  • Marking that runs while you are teaching another class.
  • Parent communications that route themselves.
  • At-risk signals surfaced before you have to go looking for them.

What Dexter sees

  • Per-student progress trajectories across subjects, terms and behaviours.
  • Learning-difficulty patterns — dyslexia, attention, comprehension gaps — flagged weeks before formal assessment.
  • Live class pulse: who is following, who is stuck, who is coasting.
  • Outcome projections — likely grades, exam readiness, students at risk.

These aren’t dashboards we can show fairly on a webpage — they’re working features in the platform our own school teaches on. Book a demo to see it →

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A day with vs. without Dexter

Teacher's day
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Who is behind Dexter

The team

See it running, not described.

The signal layer doesn’t show fairly on a webpage. Book a demo and we’ll walk through the platform our own school teaches on. Now licensing across the GCC region.

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