Academy Terms

What Academy is

Modern Schoolhouse Academy is an independent digital home-learning platform. It currently offers free Grade 3 and Grade 5 working previews, with further grades in development. It is not a school, does not register a learner with a Provincial Education Department, does not issue DBE certification and does not replace a competent assessor or any parent duty that applies to home education.

CAPS curriculum boundary

Grade 3 and Grade 5 working previews use requirements mapped to official DBE CAPS source documents. A link, section or page does not establish independent verification. Applicable CAPS amendments, prescribed teaching time, content and formal assessment rules still require review. New formal-task generation and marking remain paused. MSA is not DBE-approved, accredited, endorsed or certified.

Family account and learner profiles

The adult account holder is responsible for the family account and learner profiles created under it. A child learner profile may be created only by a parent, guardian or other competent person authorised to consent to processing the child's information. Keep login access private and provide only educational information needed for the service.

Child information and evidence

MSA may store learner educational records, progress, assessment evidence, attendance and parent-controlled records while the learner profile exists. Optional photo/audio evidence is used only for the educational workflow in which it is submitted. The family can export the learner record and can delete the learner profile and active app-managed learner evidence through the signed-in service. Full details are in the Privacy & Data Handling notice.

Free Academy access

Modern Schoolhouse Academy is currently R0: no monthly fee, annual fee, card checkout or automatically recurring payment. Sign-in and confirmation of parental authority and child-data consent remain necessary for private learner profiles.

This is a developing educational service with free Grade 3 and Grade 5 working previews. Any future paid product would need separate, clear disclosure and an affirmative purchase decision. No earlier Academy payment is converted into an automatic subscription.

Previously paid access

Historic verified purchases and disputes remain subject to applicable terms and consumer rights when those transactions occurred. Order and payment records may be retained where needed for reconciliation. No new Academy payment can be started through the retired routes.

Assessments, marking and reports

Informal practice, progress indicators and family summaries are educational working records, not independently moderated CAPS results. New formal assessment generation and marking, and unverified annual calculations, are withheld pending CAPS document and amendment review. Existing saved records remain viewable without implying certification. Families must record only truthful observed evidence; MSA does not replace competent assessor sign-off.

Historic payment concerns

There is no new Academy checkout. For historic payments, suspected duplicate charges, refund requests or a material mismatch in the prior sold service, contact Academy support. Nothing here limits any right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Acceptable use

Do not upload unlawful content, another person's information without authority, passwords, payment-card details, identity documents or unrelated highly sensitive information. Do not use the service to falsify learner evidence, assessment results, registration status or professional sign-off.