Oak National Academy
App & software · 2020
Teachers’ lockdown classroom reported two million lesson accesses in its first week.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Reported daily-user peak, later report; earlier claim was 1.1M
- 934K–1.1M
- As of Jan 12, 2021 · Open web · Self-reported · Oak National Academy
- Milestone date
- Week of Jan 4, 2021
- Apr 20 ’20 to Week of Jan 4, 2021
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Education
How it spread
Trace the originTeachers launched a free lockdown classroom and reported two million lesson accesses in its first week. Assemblies and a Teacher Hub followed, then a larger January school-closure wave. Oak became a public body in 2022.
Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak. Some dates are known only to the week, month or year.
Timeline (16)
April 2020
Gavin Williamson precursor · Apr 19 ’20
Williamson announced Oak at the Downing Street coronavirus briefing, ahead of its launch the next day.[1]
BBC News precursor · Apr 19 ’20
BBC News reported plans for Oak’s free lessons alongside the government’s laptop offer.[2]
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Every number (14)
- Official Twitter followers before day-one growth; website was the seed“From 0 followers to 10,000 followers on Twitter on day one”0[5]
Press (1 outlet)
- Apr 19, 20201 day before
BBC News · Coronavirus lockdown: Laptops offered for online school lessons at home
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