Changelog
We've redesigned the dashboard to launch directly into a conversation with Nalae, making it faster and easier to get started with planning.
To help guide your first steps, we’ve also added starter prompts that make it simple to:
This update reduces friction and makes your planning workflow feel immediate, personal, and intuitive.
PLAYground now supports over 120 nationally recognised early childhood education frameworks. This update ensures that educators across different countries and pedagogical traditions can work seamlessly with Nalae, generate more relevant lesson content, and align planning workflows to their preferred standards.
The supported curricula now include:
This release introduces two major updates that transform the way themes are structured and planned:
Theme Artifacts
You can now build and edit a theme in real time, allowing you to co-plan dynamically with Nalae before scheduling. Theme Artifacts serve as a living planning container, giving you more flexibility and iteration space.
Theme Sections Revamp
We’ve redesigned the theme planning template to provide more structure and clarity. Each theme now supports distinct sections for:
This makes curriculum planning more modular, shareable, and aligned with educational goals.
Themes and lessons can now be exported into clean, structured PDFs—complete with color coding and consistent formatting. Perfect for sharing with parents, printing for classroom use, or archiving your teaching plans.
You can now define teaching hours and term dates under your Teaching Profile in settings. This helps Nalae make more accurate suggestions, adjust lesson pacing, and ensure recommendations align with your real-world teaching structure.
You can now add a hero image to any theme or lesson, making it easier to visually distinguish and personalize your curriculum. Whether it’s a custom upload or an AI-generated image, this feature adds a strong visual identity to your teaching content.
We added iCal subscription support, letting you view PLAYground schedules inside Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook. Updates sync automatically, keeping you organized across platforms.
You can now write with Markdown in your theme sections—use headers, bullet points, bold text, and more to organize your thoughts and communicate clearly.
The calendar interface was redesigned to be simpler and more intuitive. Navigating themes, routines, and lesson blocks is now faster and easier—especially for power users.
Also fixed a bug where chat history wasn't saving consistently.
We launched Copilot, an intelligent planning assistant powered by Nalae, for themes and lessons. It helps you evaluate structure, refine goals, and generate content suggestions directly from within your planning workflow.
Also fixed issues with dashboard filtering, profile updates, and Nalae lesson scheduling inconsistencies.
The chat interface is now more powerful: Nalae can schedule lessons, assign notifications, and manage routines directly through conversation. Planning is now more responsive and hands-free.
Bug Fixes:
We introduced the first conversational interface with Nalae, moving beyond a modular UI toward a more fluid, intuitive planning experience.
Educators can now chat with Nalae to:
This marked a major turning point in how PLAYground supports creative workflows—bringing planning and feedback into one space.
We officially launched the closed beta of PLAYground Web, a platform for educators and schools to design, schedule, and personalize early learning experiences.
Includes tools like:
We officially announced the transition of PLAYground from a desktop app to a modern web application. This decision allows for faster iteration, easier collaboration with schools, and seamless access across devices.
The switch enables:
We began moving toward structured data models for themes and lessons. This included a markdown-based sketchpad, better alignment of Nalae’s recommendations with structured goals, and saved planning history locally.
We added a basic Toybox UI to let users explore and register toys. An internal lesson planner prototype was also introduced, allowing early testing of how toys could influence lesson outcomes.
We shared the first working prototype of PLAYground as a desktop demo app for Mac and Windows. This early version demonstrated the core potential of Nalae as an educational co-planner.
Highlights from the demo:
