Our mission
Somewhere on the internet, somebody has already built the thing that would make the topic you’re stuck on obvious. Staffroom exists to find it for you.
The problem
The best explanations online are rarely the ones that rank. A physics simulation built by one person in a weekend can teach a concept better than an hour of video, and be effectively unfindable. Search engines index text; these things are worth using, not reading.
What Staffroom does
It catalogues interactive learning sites — simulations, 3D models, virtual labs, visualisers, explorable essays — and sends you straight to them. 40 sites across 8 subjects so far, each one checked by a person rather than scraped.
What it deliberately doesn’t do
- Host anything. The work belongs to the person who made it. Staffroom sends traffic to their site; it never mirrors, embeds or reproduces their content.
- Invent ratings. There are no scores or review counts on this site, because no students have left any yet. Fake social proof would make the whole catalogue worthless.
- Get between you and the site. One click from a Staffroom page to the real thing, in a new tab.
Where it goes
Reviews and per-site discussion come next, so students can say whether something was worth the hour and tell creators what’s missing. After that, saved collections. The long-term aim is a visual school assembled from the internet’s best explanations — but it earns that one working page at a time.
If you built one
Staffroom is as useful as its catalogue. Submit your site and it goes in front of students looking for exactly what you made.