Elimu Shop Adds Teacher and Parent Dashboards for Schools

In Short

Elimu Shop has expanded its learning platform with new dashboards for teachers and parents. The goal is to make it easier to track student progress while kids learn math and science through games.

What Happened

Elimu Shop says it is adding two new tools to its game-based learning platform, a Teacher’s Dashboard and a Parent’s Dashboard.

The Teacher’s Dashboard is built for classroom use. It lets teachers track learner progress, assign activities, and recognise growth. In practice, this works like a simple analytics panel, similar to a class record book, but updated as students play.

The Parent’s Dashboard is meant for home support. It gives parents easy-to-read updates on how a child is learning, plus progress badges. Badges are basic achievements that signal milestones, like levels in a game.

Elimu Shop’s platform targets learners in Grades 1 to 8, and its flagship title is Equation Explorer, a math board game available on Google Play. The company also highlights community WhatsApp groups for teachers and parents, with moderated participation.

Elimu Shop reports usage across 8+ schools, 250+ learners, 200+ teachers, and 450+ parents. It is also promoting registration for a STEAM Camp 2026 holiday camp for ages 6 to 17.

Why It Matters

For many African schools and households, the hard part is not finding learning content, it is measuring progress and keeping students engaged over time.

Dashboards help connect the game to real learning outcomes. Teachers can see who is improving and where learners struggle, without manually checking every exercise. Parents get clearer visibility into what “playing” actually means for math skills.

If Elimu Shop can keep the dashboards simple and useful on low-cost Android devices, it may improve adoption with schools that want digital learning tools but still need basic reporting and accountability.