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Week of 15-Sep-2026 – 21-Sep-2026

Learn with EDII, even if your school does not

Until now the app needed a school behind it. EDII Learn changes that: a learner signs in with their email and a code, and goes straight to the chapters, the reader, Explain this and Ask EDII — with their own tokens on Home. Alongside it, Voice 2 reads a chapter aloud in EDII's own narration voice, the app asks for location far less and opens faster, and the Teacher app makes attendance punches honest about which phone they came from.

EDII Learn, open to all Chapters in EDII's voice 16 updates

For every release so far, EDII has assumed a school. The chapters, the reader and Ask EDII all sat behind a school login. EDII Learn (25.48.32) removes that assumption — a learner with no EDII school signs in with an email and a code and gets the same study material, on their own board's syllabus. The rest of the week went to the app itself: EDII's own narration voice on chapters, a noticeably lighter and less intrusive app, and a Teacher app that stops one phone quietly marking attendance for several teachers.

EDII Learn: study with EDII without a school

Sign in with an email and a code. A learner outside an EDII school enters their email, receives a code, and lands straight on Home — no school ID, no admission number, nothing for a school office to set up.
Three tabs, and your own tokens. EDII Learn learners see Home, Learn and AI, with their AI tokens shown on Home. Fees, attendance, homework and the student list are not shown at all, and a link into one simply returns you to Home.
Your board's chapters, and the full reader. Subjects and chapters follow the learner's own board. The chapter reader, Explain this and Ask EDII all work exactly as they do for a school student, and the token count updates after each answer.
Close the account yourself. A new Delete account for EDII Learn confirms with a code sent to your email and closes the account at once — and that email cannot be used to sign in or sign up again. The Sign Out screen now also shows the learner's name and email, or the child's name and phone number for a school login.
Where it stands today. New EDII Learn sign-ups are offered on CBSE for now, and tokens for EDII Learn learners are added by the EDII team.

Chapters read aloud in EDII's own voice

Voice 2, beside Listen. On any chapter, Voice 2 reads it in EDII's natural narration voice, part by part, with Pause, Resume and Stop — and carries on from where you left off rather than starting again.
It tells you when it is still being prepared. A chapter whose Voice 2 narration is not ready yet says so and offers Check again — the first preparation takes a few minutes.
Read-aloud now works on every phone. If a phone has no voice installed for Listen, Voice 2 is offered instead so the chapter can still be read aloud. Listen itself now appears and works on every iPhone and Android phone — for chapters, postcards, School Diary notes and chapter recaps.
Only one voice at a time. Starting Voice 2 stops Listen and the other way round, and recording Teach it back pauses any reading aloud. Voice 2 is in English for now; Hindi chapters keep using the phone's own voice.

A lighter app that asks for less

Location is no longer asked for at every open. The app requests location only when a parent opens a school's admission details. Where the app is being used is still recorded for schools — but from the Home tab, never at start-up, and only when permission was already given. Nothing is recorded if you have not allowed it.
Home opens faster. Screens now load when they are selected instead of all of them at start-up.
Notifications are explained before they are asked for. Permission is requested after sign-in with a clear explanation of what it is for, and the notification library has been updated to cut false background stalls.
Smaller download, newer Android. Optimised images and start-up resources reduce both the download and the installed size, and start-up, permissions and app-size handling have been brought up to Android 15 and 16 while keeping the established notch layout. Camera and gallery attachments use the current Android and iPhone photo flows.
Small things that make it feel like yours. EDII Learn sign-up asks for board, class and age group as lists to pick from, with the classes offered matching that board's own syllabus — and the student's photo, where the school has one, now appears in place of the initials at the top of Home.

Teacher app: an attendance punch that says where it came from

Every punch records the phone it was made from. Marking your own attendance now notes which device the punch came from, so a school can see when one phone has been used to mark attendance for more than one teacher.
Biometric schools can switch app attendance off. Schools that record staff attendance on a biometric machine can turn off attendance in the app entirely — the Punch In and Punch Out buttons stop appearing, and the screen explains why.

On the web: admit card dates, pulled from Test Master

Get Dates From Test Master (Exam → Admit Card → Edit). Tests are usually created for a whole exam in one go, with the same date on every subject, and the real dates are filled in afterwards in Edit Test — leaving the admit card stuck with the date it was created with. The new button pulls the current Test Master date for each subject already on the card. Subjects are never added or removed, and nothing is saved until you press Update Schedule.

The chapters no longer need a school behind them.

Everything EDII teaches — the chapter reader, Explain this, Ask EDII, the practice — has until now required a school to have signed up first. EDII Learn lets a learner reach it with an email address, on their own board's syllabus. For EDII schools, nothing changes except that the app got lighter, asks for location far less, and reads chapters aloud in a voice of its own. More next week.