Learning that clicks.
Homework still going after dinner? Nexulern is a smart learning platform for Grades 4 – 12. Its tutor, Astrid, doesn’t hand over the answer. She asks the question that helps it click.
Plus 9000+ ready-made lessons, video lessons and 1:1 tutoring.
- Grades 4 – 12
- Built around CAPS and IEB
- Nothing to install
Four ways up.
Help for every kind of stuck.
Stuck on one step: Astrid, the smart tutor
Chat or talk it through. She asks the questions that help your child work it out.
Meet AstridNeed the whole topic: 9000+ ready-made lessons
A reading, flashcards and a quiz in every lesson, built around CAPS and IEB.
Look inside a lessonWant to see it explained: Video lessons
Our own pre-recorded lessons, by grade and subject.
See the video libraryWant a real person: 1:1 tutoring
A real tutor for one-on-one sessions, in a video room built into Nexulern.
See how booking works
She asks before she tells
Astrid is an AI tutor who guides with questions and hints, and lets your child try each step instead of handing over the answer.
She helps with other school subjects too, not only the ones with ready-made lessons.
The thinking stays theirs. So does the click.
Chat, or talk it through
Type a question and watch Astrid’s reply appear as she writes it. Or switch to voice and talk it through out loud, like a call with a tutor.
Voice mode
Astrid: Okay, so what would you try first?
Learner: I’m stuck on number 4.
Astrid: Let’s look at it together. What is the question asking you to find?
Show her your working
Snap a photo of handwritten working. Astrid reads it, shows where it went wrong and asks what to try next.
Show Astrid your working
Astrid: Look at line 2. What happens to the 6 when it moves across?
Scratchpad
Work it out by hand on a drawing pad next to Astrid, then show her.
Scratchpad
No marks here, just working it out.
Study tools in the chat
Astrid builds quick checks, flip cards, step-by-step workings and graphs with sliders to explore “what if”.
Quick check · Social Sciences
Which line runs around the middle of the Earth?
Tap an answer
Remembers what’s tricky
Astrid remembers what your child finds hard and picks up from there. Your child can see this list, and clear it.
What Astrid remembers
- Comparing fractions with different denominators
- Moving terms across the equals sign
- Getting started on long word problems
Turn notes into study material
Upload a document or a photo of class notes, and Astrid turns it into something to study from.
Make study material
Your notesPhoto or documentAstrid makes
- Summary
- Flashcards
- Quiz
- Spoken summary
Illustrative screens.
9000+ ready-made lessons
The AI Learning Center has guided lessons for Grades 4 – 12, built around CAPS and IEB.
Each lesson has a reading, flashcards and a quiz, with Astrid right beside it when a question comes up.
AI Learning Center
Food chains
Grade 5, Natural Sciences and Technology
A producer starts every food chain: a plant that makes its own food using energy from the sun. Animals can’t make their own food, so they are consumers. They eat plants or other animals. In the chain grass, then grasshopper, then bird, the arrows show where the energy goes.
Astrid
Highlight anything in the lesson and ask me about it.
Card 1 of 3
Quiz
In the food chain grass, then grasshopper, then bird, which one is the producer?
- Practice inside every lesson
- Highlight anything and ask Astrid about it
- Make notes, highlight in three colours and change the text size
- A flashcard bank that brings cards back just when they’re due
- Your child sees their progress and quiz results, and you can log in to see them too
See it explained
For when it helps to watch. Browse Nexulern’s own pre-recorded video lessons by grade and subject.
Grade 5, Natural Sciences and Technology
A real tutor, when it helps
Book one-on-one sessions with real tutors, right inside Nexulern.
Step 1: Choose a tutor
Filter by subject and grade, and see their qualifications, experience and languages.
Tutor profile
- Maths, Grades 8 – 10
- English, Afrikaans
- Qualifications
- Experience
Both are shown on their profile.
Step 2: Pick a time
Request a time from their open slots. Your tutor confirms it.
Open slots
Step 3: Meet in the video room
Sessions happen in a video room built into Nexulern, so there are no meeting links to chase. Need to move one? You can reschedule or cancel there too.
Request sent. Your tutor confirms the time.
Video room in Nexulern
Wed 17:30
JoinReschedule, Cancel
Illustrative screen. Tutor details and times are examples.
Peace of mind for parents
Plain promises we can keep.
What you can count on
Astrid guides. She doesn’t do the homework.
She asks questions and gives hints, so your child does the thinking.
Astrid can’t change your child’s work.
She can’t touch their marks, homework or flashcards. She notes what they find tricky so she can pick up from there, and your child can see and clear that list.
See how they’re getting on.
Log in to your child’s portal any time to see their learning.
Every tutor is vetted.
Before anyone tutors on Nexulern, we run a full criminal background check and check the National Register for Sex Offenders.
Nothing to install.
It works in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.
No tracking on this website.
No analytics and no tracking cookies, so there’s no cookie banner either.
Built around CAPS and IEB
For Grades 4 – 12.
Show subjects for
AI Learning Center, Grades 10 – 12
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Literacy
- English Home Language
- Afrikaans First Additional Language
- Physical Sciences
- Life Sciences
- Accounting
- Business Studies
- Geography
- History
- Computer Applications Technology
- Engineering Graphics and Design
- Tourism
- and more
Maths, languages, sciences, social sciences and more, for Grades 4 – 12. And Astrid can help with other school subjects too.
We’re adding lessons term by term, so some subjects and grades are still filling up.
Good questions
No, Nexulern isn’t a school. It’s a smart learning platform for learning at home, for Grades 4 – 12.
It brings four things together: Astrid, the AI tutor built into Nexulern; 9000+ ready-made lessons; our own video lessons; and 1:1 tutoring with real tutors.
From Grade 4 all the way to matric (Grade 12). The ready-made lessons are built around CAPS and IEB.
No. Astrid teaches by asking, not telling: she gives questions and hints, and your child takes each step.
If your child shows her a photo of their working, she points out where it went wrong and asks what they could try next. The thinking stays theirs.
No. Astrid isn’t a general chatbot. She’s a tutor built for learning, who asks before she tells. And she does a lot more than chat:
- Reads a photo of your working
- Remembers what you find tricky
- Sketches graphs you can play with
- Quizzes you with quick checks
- Talks it through in voice mode
- Shows step-by-step workings
- Makes flip cards
- Turns your notes into study material
- Works it out with you on a scratchpad
- Writes proper maths
- Chats in Afrikaans too
Astrid is designed to be safe for children. She’s a tutor made for schoolwork, not a general chatbot, and she has safeguards built in.
No tool can promise to be perfect, so we still encourage you to stay involved: you can log in to your child’s portal to see their learning. If anything ever worries you, email us at hello@nexulern.com.
Yes. You can log in to your child’s portal to see their learning, including their progress and quiz results.
The ready-made lessons cover Maths, languages, sciences, social sciences and more, across Grades 4 – 12. We’re adding lessons term by term, so some subjects and grades are still filling up.
Astrid can help with other school subjects too, not only the ones with ready-made lessons. You’ll find the subjects for each phase further up the page.
Partly. Lessons are in English, and your child can switch a lesson to Afrikaans. There are also Afrikaans First Additional Language lessons.
Astrid’s text chat works in Afrikaans too. Voice mode is in English only.
Real people you book one-on-one. Every tutor is vetted before they can tutor on Nexulern: we run a full criminal background check and check the National Register for Sex Offenders.
Before you request a time, you can see each tutor’s qualifications, experience and languages.
Yes. There’s nothing to install. Nexulern works in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.
Nexulern is for supplementary learning: extra help and practice alongside your child’s schooling. It isn’t an approved home-school curriculum, and it doesn’t include formal assessments.
Yes. You can cancel any time.
Yes. And when you add more than one child, you get a discount on each of them.
We’re getting ready for families now, and sign-ups are almost open. A lot of families are already waiting for early access, so stick around.
Still wondering about something? Email us at hello@nexulern.com.
Get in early.
Nexulern is getting ready for families, and sign-ups are almost open.
Pricing will be announced before launch, in rands.
We never ask for your child’s name.