Ψηφιακό Φροντιστήριο

What it is

Ψηφιακό Φροντιστήριο, which translates roughly as digital tutoring school, is a free online learning service run by the Greek Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports. Its own description is a digital platform of the Ministry that aims to offer free educational support to primary, lower secondary and upper secondary students. It is a learner product: there is nothing to buy, and the reader is a Greek student, or the parent of one, looking for help beyond the classroom.

The service rests on three parts. Live streamed classes serve students in the final year of general upper secondary school (Γ' Λυκείου) preparing for the Panhellenic Examinations, the national exams for university entry, and they can be watched with no registration. Recorded video lessons run from the fifth year of primary school up to the second year of upper secondary school. And a Moodle learning management system holds extra material from the teachers, opened with the personal login of the Panhellenic School Network that Greek students already have. Graduates of earlier years can follow the live classes too.

The homepage frames the service as an equal-opportunity policy: a student on a remote island or in a mountain village should get the same organized support as one in a big city, regardless of family income. It closes with the line that opportunities in education should not have a postal code.

Live classes for the Panhellenic Examinations

The live program is the core. For the 2026-2027 school year, which the homepage says started on Monday 28 September, the service teaches 45 subjects examined in the Panhellenic Examinations, across general lyceums (ΓΕΛ), vocational lyceums (ΕΠΑΛ) and the special vocational schools (ΕΝΕΕΓΥΛ). It is the third school year in a row that the live program has run. The homepage says 77 experienced teachers are teaching this year, with more to be added as substitutes, after 81 taught live the year before.

The schedule page shows what a week looks like. Recent sessions included vocational lyceum classes in Maritime Law, Digital Systems, Modern Greek and Algebra, and general lyceum classes in Modern Greek Language and Literature, Ancient Greek, Mathematics and Biology. Each class carries a short description. Mathematics, for example, covers analysis with an emphasis on functions, limits, derivatives and integrals, with students practicing theory and applications for the exams; Biology covers heredity, mutations and cell biology with a focus on DNA and proteins. The page also posts notices, such as no classes on October 28 for the national holiday, and links to a detailed timetable and user instructions.

Special subjects get live teaching as well, which the homepage singles out: technical and architectural drawing, and the five foreign languages examined nationally (English, French, Spanish, Italian and German). Last year, the homepage says, the live program covered 13 general lyceum subjects, 19 vocational lyceum subjects, 9 special subjects and 4 special education subjects, and it ran 477 hours of live teaching each month. Targeted live revision continued up to one day before each exam. New vocational subjects added include Maritime Law, Digital Systems, Building Construction and Central Heating Design.

Recorded lessons and Moodle

The second pillar, in the homepage's words, is the asynchronous side: free recorded material from the fifth year of primary school through the second year of upper secondary school, which students use at their own time and pace. Last year 3,186 recorded lessons were available.

The lesson menu is organized by school stage and year. Primary covers Language and Mathematics in the fifth and sixth years. Lower secondary (gymnasium) adds English, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek in translation, Biology, religious education, History, Mathematics, Modern Greek and Physics. The general lyceum years cover Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Chemistry, Latin, Literature and, in the final year, subjects such as Economics, Computer Science, foreign languages, drawing and music theory. The vocational lyceum list runs from Anatomy-Physiology and Electrical Machines to Navigation, Maritime Law and Digital Systems, and there is a separate branch for special education lyceums. Lessons can also be browsed by theme, from natural sciences and mathematics to humanities, social sciences, arts and culture, vocational education and special education, and an advanced search helps find a topic.

Each recorded lesson page states its learning objectives and credits a scientific lead, content editors and a pedagogical designer. The Moodle environment, the homepage says, keeps growing with recorded lessons, exercises for each unit, revision material and mock exams.

Reach

The homepage gives the service's figures. Since it started, it has passed 410,000 users in total. In the 2025-2026 school year alone, 261,851 students and graduates used it, and from 16 June to 16 September 2026, during the summer, the recorded lessons reached 300,000 users. It says students in Greece and abroad use it as part of their daily study. The Greek wording names Cyprus too: "μαθητών από την Ελλάδα, την Κύπρο και το εξωτερικό" (students from Greece, Cyprus and abroad).

AI tools on the way

The Ministry is adding AI. Through its cooperation with Microsoft, it has developed an AI Tutor, a learning assistant for the five foreign-language special subjects, which the homepage says will offer free support to the service's students. For 2027 it plans EduAI, a tool designed to adjust exercises to each student's level and performance, find gaps in knowledge, give immediate feedback and change the difficulty as the student progresses. The Ministry also plans to extend live teaching to the first and second years of upper secondary school.

Access and support

Everything is free, and the homepage stresses that the service has no geographic or financial limits. Live classes need no account; Moodle uses the Panhellenic School Network login. Questions and suggestions go to the service by email, and the site links user instructions for both the live classes and Moodle.

Who it suits

The service suits a Greek student in the final year of general or vocational lyceum preparing for the Panhellenic Examinations, especially one without access to a private tutoring center, the φροντιστήριο that gives the service its name. Live classes in 45 exam subjects, revision right up to exam day and recordings of earlier sessions cover the whole exam year at no cost. Students repeating the exams after graduating are included.

Younger students from the fifth year of primary school up get a free recorded library to review a topic at home. Students in vocational lyceums and special education lyceums get live and recorded content in their own exam subjects.

It suits learners outside the Greek school system much less. Teaching is in Greek and follows the Greek curriculum, and the live program is built around one exam. It is a supplement to school, with group live classes and recorded lessons, rather than one-to-one tutoring.