Technology Learning Company

Technology that helps people learn by doing.

We make books you can practice in, spreadsheets that grade themselves, and tools that let anyone build their own. Most of it is free.

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What we make

Availabooks

Books you read and practice in.

Free online textbooks with exercises built into the chapters. Write SQL, run JavaScript, and check answers without leaving the page. Instructors can add courses, rosters and auto-graded assignments, and authors can publish their own books for free.

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JOLT

Your AI builds the add-in. Your whole team runs it.

A free system for building Excel, Word and PowerPoint add-ins. Describe the tool to your own AI assistant and it writes plain HTML and JavaScript. No store submission, no installer, and every app is reviewed and pinned before it runs.

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Simmy

An Excel simulator you can drop into any page.

An open-source simulator with a working formula engine and in-browser grading. Add one <simmy-app> tag to a web page or LMS and students can practice Excel with no software installed. MIT licensed.

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Excel Educator

Automated grading, right in Excel.

A complete Excel and SQL course in the Prometheus Series, taught inside the real Excel application. Workbooks are graded automatically with detailed feedback, and it connects to Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle and Blackboard.

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About us

Technology Learning Company builds software and learning materials for classrooms and workplaces. Our products share one idea: people learn technology best by using it, so practice and feedback should sit right next to the lesson.

Whether you are a student, an instructor, an author or a team that wants better spreadsheets, there is a place to start above.

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