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The Remote Learner pathway

Text-first study, material you can carry offline, and a clear line between what is saved to your account and what only exists on paper.

Standard mode is on

You are on the full experience, and lesson media still waits for your tap before it loads. Data-Saver removes decorative imagery altogether and keeps every page to system text.

The choice is kept on this device, so a phone can read in Data-Saver while a desktop stays on the full experience.

Before you start

What each tag means

Saved to your account

Progress you can return to from any device.

Available offline

Print it or save it, then read or write away from a connection.

Read online

A page to open while you have a connection.

Step 1

Set your learner group

Tailoring is presentation only. Choosing Remote Learner changes what your dashboard leads with, never what you can open, and never anything you have already finished.

Saved to your account

Confirm Remote Learner on your profile

One field on your profile decides which dashboard view opens for you. You can change it at any time, and your courses and progress stay exactly as they are.

Open profile
Saved to your account

Open your tailored dashboard

Your enrolled courses, the next module to open, and your certificates, led by the low-bandwidth pathways. The view filter there can show another group without saving that choice.

Open my courses
Step 2

Study text-first

Every lesson opens as reading. Images and recordings are optional: nothing heavier than text is downloaded until you ask for it.

Saved to your account

Sauti za Soko: Markets, Climate and Community Power

Seven modules that open with a short lesson and a saved action plan rather than video, with market cases and Kiswahili discussion prompts alongside the English.

Open the pathway
Saved to your account

Safari ya Utu: A Learner's Guide

A self-paced guide you work through section by section. Your answers save privately to your account as you write them, and no one else can read them.

Open the guide
Read online

Economics and community wellbeing

Two longer pathways, written as reading, with a short knowledge check at the end of each module and a case study to sit with.

Browse the courses
Step 3

Take it offline

These are the pieces built to leave the screen. Printing or saving them never changes anything already stored on your account.

Available offline

Printable workbook

The whole Safari ya Utu guide as a blank workbook: every section, exercise and reflection, with space to write. Nothing you have saved appears on it, so printing can never overwrite your answers.

Open the printable workbook
Available offline

Your printable study plan

The plan at the end of this page: the five stages, the few things worth writing down, and room to note the section you are on so you can pick it up again offline.

Jump to the plan
Available offline

Recordings and images, only on request

With Data-Saver switched on, no imagery or video is downloaded at all. On any connection, a lesson recording waits for your tap before it loads.

See the mode switch
Step 4

Learn with your circle

The network side of the pathway, and entirely optional. Everything here is written for low bandwidth, and privacy comes first.

Saved to your account

Peer vendor circle track

An optional track that prepares you to convene and facilitate a circle of local traders. Discussion summaries are written without naming anyone who took part.

See the track
Read online

Learner stories

Short, text-first accounts from learners studying in low-bandwidth settings, and how they put the courses to use.

Read stories
Read online

Community insights

Aggregated, anonymous numbers from learners across the network. No individual answers are ever shown, to you or to anyone else.

View insights
Step 5

Finish and prove it

Progress and certificates are stored on your account, and both can be printed when you need them on paper.

Saved to your account

Your next unfinished module

The dashboard always names the next module to open, across every course you are enrolled in, so you never have to search for where you stopped.

Open my courses
Saved to your account

Certificates as you finish

Each course issues its own certificate in the name you choose, printable or kept on your device. Set that name on your profile before you finish.

Check your profile
Read online

Bring Tamu to your community

Community organisations, youth groups and associations can run a Tamu pathway with us, including printed material for members without a connection.

Start an inquiry
Offline

Your printable study plan

The five stages as a checklist, with room to note the module you are on. Print it, or save it as a PDF from the print dialog, and it works with no connection at all.

Remote study plan
Print this page, or save it as a PDF and keep it on your device. Nothing written here leaves your hands, and nothing you have saved online is affected by it.
Step 1 — Set up
My learner group is set to Remote Learner
I know which module I am opening next
Step 2 — Study
Course I am working through: ______________________________
Section or module I am on: __________________________________
My guide answers save privately as I write them
Step 3 — Offline
I have printed the workbook, or saved it as a PDF
I have printed this plan
Recordings load only when I press play
Step 4 — Circle
Someone I could study or discuss this with: ______________________
Discussion notes are written without naming participants
Step 5 — Finish
Modules completed so far: ____________________________________
Name I want printed on my certificate: __________________________
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