Purple Mash
The complete online learning environment for primary schools
One login gives a whole primary school hundreds of creative tools, games and lessons across the curriculum: writing, coding, maths, art, music and more. Teachers set work, learners hand it in, and everything is safe, ad-free and simple enough for a six-year-old. Mini Mash, Purple Mash for the youngest learners, is included.
Who it is for: Grade R to Grade 7, the whole school on one licence
More about our learning software →
See what your school would pay.
Choose how many learners and a plan, add any extras, and see what is included. Add your name, school and email and your estimate in rands appears straight away. We follow up to confirm your quote.
Your licence
Roughly is fine. It sets the size of your licence.
Everything in Lite, plus the Purple Mash Library and live online training.
Purple Mash add-ons
Every plan includes local onboarding, online support and training for your teachers.
What's in each plan
| Purple MashThe complete online learning environment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini MashFor Grade RR and Grade R | |||
| Initial onboardingWe set up your school and show your staff around | |||
| Online supportHelp from our local team | |||
| Self-paced online trainingTraining staff work through in their own time | |||
| Purple Mash LibraryOnline books for reading and comprehension | |||
| Live online trainingSessions with a trainer, online | |||
| Python in PiecesFrom blocks to real Python, Grade 6 and up | |||
| Annual rolloverYour classes moved up to the new school year for you | |||
| In-person trainingAt your school, within 50 km of a major city |
Plus includes 7 of these 10.
Moving up to Premium adds
- Python in Pieces
- Annual rollover
- In-person training
Extras
All optional: training, Python in Pieces and Mai-Z robotics. Whatever you add shows on your estimate.
Extra teacher training
On top of the training sessions your licence includes.
Python in Pieces
Mai-Z robotics
A robot mouse for early coding, with floor tiles for mazes and challenges.
Your estimate
Your estimate is worked out for exactly what you chose. Add your name, school and email and it appears here straight away.
- Purple Mash Plus licence, 251 to 300 learners
What is in Purple Mash.
A complete online learning environment from 2Simple with hundreds of creative tools, games and lessons across the curriculum: writing, coding, maths, art, music, data and more. Teachers set work, learners hand it in, and everything is safe, ad-free and simple enough for a six-year-old.
- Writing
- Coding
- Maths
- Art
- Music
- Data
- Cross-curricular tools and lesson plans
- Coding with 2Code, from blocks to text
- Safe email, blogs and display boards for the class
- Works on any device with a browser
Mini Mash
The online space for little learners, for Grade RR and Grade R. It comes with every plan.
One school licence
One school licence for the whole primary school, with onboarding, teacher training and a local team to email, invoiced in rands.
Purple Mash, the Purple Mash Library and Python in Pieces are one family of platforms from 2Simple in the UK, supplied, set up and supported by Maze as 2Simple's partner for Africa.
Three plans, one school licence.
Each plan includes everything in the one before it. The price depends on how many learners use it and which plan you choose: the planner above shows yours.
Lite
Purple Mash and Mini Mash, with onboarding, online support and self-paced training.
- Purple Mash
- Mini Mash
- Initial onboarding
- Online support
- Self-paced online training
Plus
Everything in Lite, plus the Purple Mash Library and live online training.
- Everything in Lite
- Purple Mash Library
- Online training
Premium
Everything in Plus, plus Python in Pieces, annual rollover (your classes moved up to the new school year for you) and in-person training.
- Everything in Plus
- Python in Pieces
- Annual rollover (your classes moved up to the new school year for you)
- In-person training within 50 km of a major city
Also in the plans
In Plus and PremiumPurple Mash Library
An online reading library of more than 250 eBooks, with activities for every chapter.
About Purple Mash Library →
In PremiumPython in Pieces
From blocks to real Python, side by side, in the browser with no setup.
About Python in Pieces →Add-ons for Purple Mash.
Two add-ons, per school, on top of any plan.
Purple Mash AI
AI tools for teachers inside Purple Mash: curriculum-linked quizzes that mark themselves, and writing scaffolds for different learners, made in seconds. Only teachers can create AI content.
Purple Mash PE
A complete primary PE programme inside Purple Mash, to plan, teach, adapt and keep a record of PE lessons, even without a PE specialist.
Purple Mash Coding and Robotics is on its way.
A new platform in the Purple Mash family, just for coding and robotics. We are bringing it to South African schools, with the same local setup, training and support as Purple Mash.
Start now with Mai-Z the MouseBotA robot mouse that learners code with 2Code in Purple Mash, with units of work and lesson plans from Grade R to Grade 7.See the Mai-Z robots →How it works
- About your schoolUse the planner on this page, or just tell us your learner numbers and which grades will use it.
- Get your quoteWe confirm your quote, usually within one working day, with the training that is included.
- OnboardingWe set up your school and show your staff where everything is.
- SupportA local team to email, and training through the year.
Get a quote
Tell us about your school and we send a quote, with no obligation.
What happens next
- We reply within one working day.
- Your written quote comes by email, with no obligation.
Questions
As a school-based licence, for a year. The price depends on how many learners use it and which plan you choose: the planner at the top of this page shows your estimate in rands, and we confirm it in a written quote. Every plan includes onboarding and support.
Purple Mash is built in the UK and used across South African schools. Its tools and lessons cover the skills in the CAPS Coding and Robotics curriculum and other subjects, and we help you plan how to use them for your grades.
Ask us for a demonstration. We show you around with your own staff and answer questions.
For your IT lead
Sign-in, devices, setup and data, from 2Simple's own help pages.
Everyone has their own Purple Mash username and password. Your school can also switch on single sign-on, so people sign in with the Google or Microsoft 365 email and password they already use. A school admin asks 2Simple's support team to turn it on, and each email must match the one in Purple Mash. Alongside single sign-on, we set up a Wonde link for your school, so logins stay in step with your school's admin system. There is also a Purple Mash app for Microsoft Teams, and you can link Purple Mash to Google Classroom.
Give them a 2 or 4 digit picture PIN. Each number has an animal above it, and they tap the animals to sign in. Your school's Quick Login link saves typing a username: the teacher switches it on for 10 minutes in the lesson, and learners pick their class and name. Quick Login only works in school hours, and the link must never go on a public website. Teachers can print login cards for their class.
A school admin adds staff and learners in Manage Users, one by one or from a spreadsheet with the Import Wizard. Or we set up a Wonde link for your school: Wonde connects your school's admin system to Purple Mash, which then syncs staff, learners and classes with the MIS Sync Wizard, at no extra cost. Run it again whenever learners join or leave. Give every learner a number that never changes: 2Simple says schools outside the UK can use a student ID. Without one, you risk duplicate accounts.
Wonde is a company that connects a school's admin system to the learning apps it uses. It works with more than 30,000 schools in over 60 countries and more than 700 apps, and thousands of schools already sync Purple Mash through it. Instead of typing learners into each app, your admin system shares the details through Wonde. For Purple Mash, we ask 2Simple to set it up, your school admin signs in to Wonde's portal, sees exactly which details 2Simple asks for (some are optional and can be switched off), and presses Approve. After that, the MIS Sync Wizard in Purple Mash brings in your staff, learners and classes. Wonde is free for schools, and the sync costs nothing extra.
Purple Mash has an End of Year Wizard that moves your classes up. 2Simple says it is meant for schools with one class per grade. Schools that sync from their admin system run the MIS Sync Wizard instead. On the Premium plan, we do the rollover for you.
A computer with Windows 7 or later, or macOS 10.10 or later, 4 GB of memory and a screen of at least 1024 by 768, using an up to date Chrome, Safari or Edge. Chromebooks need ChromeOS 105 or later, and iPads iOS 15.1 or later. Allow 1 to 2 Mbit/s for each learner online at the same time. 2Simple does not support Chrome on iPads or the Smoothwall browser, and Purple Mash is not made for phones.
No. Purple Mash runs in a web browser. On tablets and Chromebooks, 2Simple recommends its Purple Mash Browser app, from the App Store or Google Play, for the best results. The app still needs the internet.
Whitelist purplemash.com, static.purplemash.com and library.purplemash.com. 2Simple also suggests 2simple.com, where its training feedback forms are.
2Simple says Purple Mash runs on Amazon Web Services servers in Ireland, and all customer data is held there, copied across more than one data centre so nothing is lost. Connections use HTTPS with TLS 1.3, staff passwords are stored encrypted, only three 2Simple staff can reach the servers, and every look at school data is logged. 2Simple says it never sells school data or uses learner data for advertising.
2Simple says it complies with the UK GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and with the data protection laws that apply in other countries. For learner and staff data, your school is usually the controller and 2Simple the processor, under 2Simple's Data Processing Agreement. 2Simple's pages do not mention POPIA by name, so if your school needs POPIA paperwork, ask us and we take it up with 2Simple.
Us first: we are your local team. 2Simple's own support team answers at support@2simple.com, and there is a chat with them in the Support menu inside Purple Mash.
