By Saunak Ghosh, Co-founder & CEO, TalentGum
A child’s learning journey continues well beyond the end of a live class. What they remember, practise and feel ready to attempt next matters just as much as their participation during the session. For parents, understanding that journey requires far more than knowing whether their child simply attended a class.
At TalentGum, our newly launched dashboard brings these essential needs together through separate guardian and child views within a single login. . Designed with child safety and privacy at its core, the dashboard provides a secure, age-appropriate environment.The aim is to give parents full visibility into co-curricular learning while empowering children to take a confident,active role in their personal progress.
Different views for different needs
Parents and children require fundamentally different information from a learning platform. The parent view consolidates course progress, learning statistics, verified certificates, and participation records for monthly challenges and competitions. Parents with more than one child enrolled can seamlessly manage each student’s learning path through a unified interface.
Parents can also customize access levels, manage notification preferences, and authorize specific student actions.Routine schedule management becomes effort-free, offering intuitive options to pause and resume classes, reschedule or cancel sessions, or request alternative class slots and mentors.
The child view keeps the experience focused on upcoming classes, progress, challenges they can join independently and certificates they can download. This gives children opportunities to engage with their learning without navigating administrative details intended for adults.
Connecting lessons with practice
For students enrolled in 1-on-1 courses, automated AI class summaries provide a clear recap following every live session. Designed specifically for the child, these summaries cover core topics explored, specific skills practised, recommended practice activities, and upcoming goals for the next class.
The purpose of these summaries is to help students revisit concepts effectively and understand their immediate next steps. Live mentors remain central to all instruction; the AI serves as a supportive tool that synthesises the custom lesson delivered by the teacher.
Parents receive comprehensive monthly progress reports detailing attendance trends, skill mastery, month-over-month growth, and student participation across TalentGum’s broader ecosystem. This includes student engagement in monthly Canvas Challenges, live Showcase events, and official FIDE Online Arena chess tournaments.
Encouraging Ownership and Growth
In co-curricular education, true progress is built through consistent practice, positive encouragement, and the ability to recognize how far a child has come. By bringing real-time learning updates, structured progress insights, and practical next steps into a single platform, TalentGum’s new dashboard and AI-summaries help parents stay deeply connected to their child’s development while encouraging children to take greater ownership of their progress. Because learning does not stop when a class ends: it continues with every skill practised, every challenge explored, and every milestone achieved.
