About OffLearn

What this site is

Governments publish an enormous amount of high-quality educational material and give it away for free. Education departments produce full curricula and lesson sequences. Examination authorities publish past papers, marking schemes and examiners' reports. National libraries digitise their collections. Public broadcasters build entire learning platforms. Almost none of it costs anything to use.

The problem is not availability — it is findability. This material is scattered across hundreds of separate government websites, buried under administrative navigation, described in departmental jargon, and frequently moved when a department redesigns its site. A student who does not already know that their state assessment authority publishes annotated past papers has very little chance of stumbling across them.

OffLearn exists to close that gap. We do three things:

• Catalogue. We maintain a directory of 734 free resources across 50 jurisdictions in 18 countries, each one published by a government department, ministry, statutory examination body or public broadcaster.
• Explain. Each country page describes how that country's education system actually works — who sets the curriculum, what the examinations are, and which official body publishes what. Knowing that Scotland has no GCSEs, or that your Indian exam dates depend on your board rather than your state, is often the difference between finding the right material and wasting a week.
• Provide tools. A handful of study utilities — GPA calculation, a Pomodoro timer, citation formatting and others — that run entirely in your browser and send nothing anywhere.

Who runs it

OffLearn is an independent volunteer project. It is not a company, not a registered charity, and not a government body. It has no staff, no offices and no funding rounds. It is built and maintained in spare time because the material it points at is genuinely useful and genuinely hard to find.

We want to be precise about one thing in particular, because it matters: OffLearn is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government or education department. We link to their material and describe their systems. We do not speak for them, and nothing on this site should be read as an official statement from any authority. Where a fact about an examination or curriculum matters to a decision you are making, the authority's own website is the source of record — and we link to it on every listing so you can check.

The site's source code and resource data are maintained in public at github.com/ravipatib/offlearn, so anyone can see exactly what is listed and how it was assembled.

How we choose what to list

Every entry in the directory has to clear four tests before it goes in. These are the rules we actually apply, not aspirations:

1. The publisher must be a public body. A government department or ministry, a statutory examination or curriculum authority, a national library, museum or archive, a public broadcaster, or a government-funded open education programme. We do not list commercial tutoring sites, content farms, or "free with signup" products.
2. It must be free at the point of use. No payment, no subscription, no trial that converts. Where a resource requires an account tied to school enrolment — as some ministry platforms do — we say so in the description rather than implying open access.
3. It must be substantive. A landing page that only links elsewhere does not qualify. We want curriculum documents, lesson sequences, past papers, digitised collections, or working learning platforms.
4. It must be identifiable by level and subject. If we cannot tell a student who the resource is for, it is not much use to them, so it does not go in the directory.

We record the publishing body and the grade levels for each entry, and each jurisdiction's listing carries the date it was last checked. When we cannot verify something, we leave it out and say the coverage is thin — which is why our Palestine listing is shorter than our Australia listing, and why most of the exam schedule pages distinguish between countries where we have confirmed a published timetable and countries where we have only been able to confirm the responsible authority.

Privacy: what we don't do

OffLearn has no accounts, no login, and no registration. There is nothing to sign up for. We do not ask for your name, your email, your school, or your age, and because we never collect that information there is no database of it to lose or to sell.

The study tools all run locally in your browser. When you calculate a GPA, format a citation, or run the typing test, the text and numbers you enter stay on your device — they are not transmitted to us, because there is no server-side component to transmit them to. Anything the tools remember between visits is stored in your own browser's local storage, and clearing your browser data clears it.

Our privacy policy sets this out in full, including what our hosting provider necessarily logs and what third-party services are involved.

How the site is funded

OffLearn is free to use and has no paid tier. Running costs are minimal — it is a static website — and are currently covered personally.

We intend to display advertising to cover hosting and domain costs. When we do, it will be labelled as advertising and kept clearly separate from the directory listings. To be explicit about the thing that matters most here: no resource has ever been listed, ranked or described differently because of a commercial relationship. Everything in the directory is published by a government body, and government bodies do not pay for placement. The selection rules above are the only thing that determines what appears.

How to use the site

Get in touch

Corrections, additions, and questions are all welcome at info@offlearn.org, or through the contact page, which explains what to include so we can act on it quickly.

Last reviewed: August 2026. Resource counts on this page are generated from the site's own data files at build time, so they match what is actually listed.