Made for Be More Alive Ministries by Start Right, November 7, 2026. Concept screens: the names, courses and trainers are made up to show the idea.

App Three Ways

One training app. Three ways to build it.

Trainers build courses. Learners take them on the jail tablet or on the web. Families and sponsors follow the progress on the web. Each option below is the whole app, designed around a different person. Pick the one that should lead.

A. DaybreakFor the learnerB. GuildFor the trainersC. PorchlightFor the family

Learner 2148

GED Math: Fractions

With Ms. Alvarez · 6 lessons · multiple choice and written answers

What a fraction is Equal pieces Adding fractions Subtracting fractions Mixed numbers Unit check
9:41
3/5

Question

What is 1/4 + 2/4?

2/83/43/81/2
Nice work!The bottom number stays 4.Keep going
PORCHLIGHT · nowLearner 2148 finished a lesson

GED Math: Fractions, Lesson 3

01 · The idea

Three people use this app. Each option is designed around one of them.

The learner

Takes short lessons and answers questions on the jail tablet.

Option A, Daybreak
The trainer

Builds courses with multiple choice and written questions.

Option B, Guild
The family or sponsor

Pays to follow a learner’s progress from home.

Option C, Porchlight
Every option includes all of version 1:Trainer profilesCourse and quiz builderLearner progressSponsor pay portalAdmin view for the nonprofit

Same version 1 features in all three. You are choosing who the design puts first. Learners show only as a number the app gives them, never a name or a booking number.

02 · Option A

Daybreak

Designed around the learner. A calm daily habit, one lesson at a time.

Daybreak feels like the best learning apps on your phone: a short lesson, a question, a small win, and a streak that brings you back tomorrow. Big, friendly type made for a jail tablet.

  • Built for the tabletLarge tap targets and one task per screen.
  • A reason to come backStreaks and a path you can see.
  • Kind when you missWrong answers get a hint, not a red X.
9:41

Good morning

Learner 2148

4 day streakOne lesson today keeps it going

Today’s lesson

GED Math: FractionsAdding fractionsLesson 3 · 6 min

Your path

Forklift Safety BasicsFinished
GED Math: Fractions3 of 6 lessons
Anger Management, Week 3Opens after Week 2
9:41
2/5

Adding fractions

When the bottom numbers match, add the tops.

One quarter plus two quarters is three quarters. The bottom number tells you the size of each piece, so it stays the same.

Think of a pizza cut into 4. You ate 1 slice, then 2 more.
Continue
9:41
3/5

Question

What is 1/4 + 2/4?

2/83/43/81/2
Nice work!The bottom number stays 4.Keep going
9:41
4/5

In your own words

Why does the bottom number stay the same?

Because the pieces are still quarters. I just have more of them now.
MAMs. Alvarez, your trainer, reads every answer.
Send answer
9:41

Lesson complete

Adding fractions is done. Next up: subtracting fractions.

45
day streak
Back to today

The same learner on the web version

Learner 2148

GED Math: Fractions

With Ms. Alvarez · 6 lessons · multiple choice and written answers

What a fraction is Equal pieces Adding fractions Subtracting fractions Mixed numbers Unit check

Every course card has three states

Anger Management, Week 3Opens after Week 2
Not startedLocked until the trainer opens it
GED Math: Fractions3 of 6 lessons
In progressThe ring fills as lessons finish
Forklift Safety BasicsFinished
DoneFinished, and open to review

03 · Option B

Guild

Designed around the trainers. A storefront worth teaching in.

Guild treats trainers like the experts they are. Every course gets a cover, every trainer gets a real page, and building a quiz is quick. Great trainers want to be here, and learners can tell.

  • Trainers look their bestCourse covers and trainer pages.
  • Fast to buildMultiple choice and written questions, previewed live.
  • Quality in reviewThe nonprofit approves every course.
GuildBrowseTrainersFor trainers Search trainingsSign in
Featured training

Forklift Safety Basics

Marcus Reed walks you through pre-shift checks, load limits and safe stacking, the way a good warehouse lead would.

Start trainingMeet Marcus
Marcus ReedForklift Safety Basics

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Dana WhitfieldMoney Basics for Coming Home
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Ms. AlvarezGED Math: Fractions
Dana WhitfieldAnger Management, Week 3
Tasha GreeneParenting from a Distance
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Trainer

Marcus Reed

Warehouse lead turned trainer. Teaches forklift safety and the habits that keep a crew safe.

Approved by Be More Alive Ministries 2 trainings

Trainings by Marcus

Marcus ReedForklift Safety Basics
Forklift Safety Basics8 lessons · quiz after each lesson

Pre-shift checks, load limits, ramps and pedestrians.

Marcus ReedWarehouse Teamwork
Warehouse Teamwork5 lessons · written reflections

Showing up, handing off and speaking up on a crew.

Course builderForklift Safety Basics Lesson 4 DraftIn reviewApprovedSubmit for review
Multiple choiceWritten answer
A coworker steps into your path on a ramp. What do you do first?
Stop, sound the horn and wait
Speed up to get past
Turn around on the ramp
Lower the forks and keep going
Never turn or speed up on a ramp. Stop, warn, and wait for a clear path.
9:41
Marcus ReedForklift Safety Basics
Job skills · 8 lessons

Forklift Safety Basics

with Marcus Reed Approved
Start training

Lessons

1
Your first walk-around7 min · 4 questions
2
Controls and gauges6 min · 4 questions
3
Load limits8 min · 5 questions
4
Ramps and pedestrians6 min · 4 questions

A course page on a tablet or phone

Every course moves through three states

DraftWarehouse Teamwork3 of 5 lessons written
DraftOnly the trainer can see it
In reviewForklift Safety BasicsSent to the nonprofit
In reviewThe nonprofit checks every course
ApprovedGED Math: FractionsLive for learners
ApprovedLive for learners

04 · Option C

Porchlight

Designed around the family. Leave the light on for someone you love.

Porchlight is for the people waiting at home. They follow a learner’s progress, hear the moment a lesson is done, and celebrate every milestone. They see only what the learner chooses to share.

  • Good news, as it happensAlerts when a lesson is done, in a later phase.
  • Proof of growthTrainer notes, not just checkmarks.
  • Simple to payA clean, secure payment sheet.
9:41
Saturday, November 77:42
PORCHLIGHT · nowLearner 2148 finished a lesson

GED Math: Fractions, Lesson 3. Adding fractions.

PORCHLIGHT · nowLearner 2148 is on a 5 day streak

Five days of lessons in a row.

9:41
Porchlight
You’re following

Learner 2148

Forklift
GED Math
Interviews

This week

Today, 7:40 AMFinished Adding fractions

GED Math: Fractions, Lesson 3

Today, 7:38 AMWrote an answer

Ms. Alvarez: “Clear thinking. This is exactly it.”

ThursdayStarted Job Interview Practice

With James Porter

MondayFinished Forklift Safety Basics

All 8 lessons

9:41
Milestone

Forklift Safety Basics, complete

Learner 2148 finished all 8 lessons with Marcus Reed.

Later phaseCertificate of completionForklift Safety BasicsLearner 2148 · November 2, 2026
Share with family
9:41
Porchlight

Follow a learner

Enter the code the learner shared with you.

2148KX7Q

The learner chooses who gets a code and can turn it off. No names or photos, ever.

Sponsor access
FollowingLearner 2148
IncludesProgress, lessons, trainer notes
AmountSet by Be More Alive Ministries
Card number•••• 4242
Pay securely Payments handled by Stripe

The family dashboard on a computer

PorchlightLearner 2148PaymentsSettings
You’re following

Learner 2148

Following since October 12 · 3 trainings

Forklift Safety BasicsComplete
GED Math: Fractions3 of 6 lessons
Job Interview PracticeJust started
Lessons this week
MTWTFSS
Sponsor access is activePaid securely through Stripe. Learner 2148 can turn sharing off anytime.
Manage

What a sponsor sees, in three states

Enter a code to followAsk the learner for their code
Waiting for a codeNothing shows until the learner shares
Learner 2148GED Math: 3 of 6 lessons
FollowingProgress and trainer notes
Forklift Safety BasicsAll 8 lessons complete
MilestoneA moment worth celebrating

05 · One moment, three apps

Learner 2148 finishes a lesson. Here is what each option shows.

9:41

Lesson complete

Adding fractions is done. Next up: subtracting fractions.

45
day streak
Back to today
A. Daybreak The learner sees the ring fill and the streak grow.
9:41
Trainer inbox
To review

New written answer

GED Math: Fractions · Lesson 3 · Learner 2148

Why does the bottom number stay the same?

“Because the pieces are still quarters. I just have more of them now.”

Clear thinking. This is exactly it.
Send note

Earlier

Learner 0917Forklift Safety Basics · reviewed
Learner 3305Anger Management, Week 3 · reviewed
B. Guild The trainer gets the written answer to review.
9:41
Saturday, November 77:42
PORCHLIGHT · nowLearner 2148 finished a lesson

GED Math: Fractions, Lesson 3. Adding fractions.

PORCHLIGHT · nowLearner 2148 is on a 5 day streak

Five days of lessons in a row.

C. Porchlight The family hears the good news.

06 · Getting it into the jail

The honest part. The tablet company decides what gets in.

Short version: we launch on the web first, then add the tablets. Nothing waits on the jail.

Jail tablets are run by a tablet company under contract with the jail, and they are not on the open internet. An app cannot simply be opened on them. There are two paths, and every option is built so both work.

Inside, on the jail tablets
  1. We find out which company runs the tablets in this jail.
  2. The courses are published through a learning partner such as Edovo, a nonprofit platform that says it works with the major tablet providers.
  3. Learners take the lessons and answer the questions on the tablet.

What that means: partners like this share only anonymous results, so families cannot follow a named learner’s tablet progress this way.

Outside, on the web
  1. Trainers build and manage their courses here.
  2. Families, re-entry programs and people who have come home take the same courses here.
  3. Sponsors follow a learner’s progress with the learner’s code.

What that means: the full app, with the family view and the pay portal, works here from day one. Nothing waits on the jail.

Some providers allow direct apps

Some tablet companies have their own approval process for outside apps. It is slower, but it could bring the full family view inside. We ask once we know the company.

Privacy first

The least data possible. No names or photos for learners, codes the learner controls, and payments handled by Stripe, never stored by us.

The nonprofit owns it

The domain, hosting, payments and any partner accounts are in the nonprofit’s name from day one.

Our recommendationBuild the web app first, since it does not depend on the jail. Publish the same courses to the tablets through the partner route once we know the tablet company, and ask that company about a direct app path at the same time.

07 · Next step

Pick A, B or C. Just text Will the letter.

Or tell him the parts you like from each, and we will combine them. Every option includes all of version 1.

A. DaybreakDesigned around the learnerB. GuildDesigned around the trainersC. PorchlightDesigned around the family

Version 1 goes live on the web first, so the jail timing does not hold it up. After you pick, we send a one page plan to approve, then the build starts.

Start Right, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Concept screens for Be More Alive Ministries.