16.1.1 What Galaxy Is
An overview of Galaxy, where to find it, and how the night-sky map works.
Galaxy is CurricuLLM's learning game for students. The curriculum is shown as a night sky: constellations (topic clusters) are made up of stars (individual learning goals). You "light up" stars by genuinely showing your understanding while chatting with the AI tutor — not by the tutor simply saying you're finished.
The tagline says it best: "Light up topics by exploring them in chat."
Where to find Galaxy
- The Galaxy button in the circle navigation menu.
- The Galaxy pill at the top of a chat.
- The dedicated Galaxy screen at
/galaxy.
Two ways to view your sky
- 3D sky — an immersive, explorable night sky.
- List view — a simpler list. Galaxy uses List view automatically when a device can't run the 3D view, or when you prefer reduced motion.
What's on the Galaxy screen
- Today's stars — 4 slots showing your progress for the day.
- Your year "stage" — with the option to Review an earlier stage or Preview a later one.
- A subject legend / filter and completion filters.
- A Badges panel for your achievement collection.
Good to know
- Galaxy is student-only. Teachers and staff don't earn stars themselves — they monitor and configure it.
- Your sky is drawn from the real curriculum, so the stars you light up are genuine learning goals for your year.
Why it helps
Galaxy turns everyday learning into exploration. Instead of a to-do list, you get a sky to light up — and every star you earn is proof you actually understand something, not just that you turned up.