diff --git a/src/Flux.jl b/src/Flux.jl
index a4f8cd93..361fadfd 100644
--- a/src/Flux.jl
+++ b/src/Flux.jl
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ using MacroTools: @forward
 using Zygote: Params, @adjoint, gradient
 
 export Chain, Dense, Maxout, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Conv, ConvTranspose, MaxPool, MeanPool,
-       DepthwiseConv, Dropout, AlphaDropout, LayerNorm, BatchNorm, InstanceNorm, GroupNorm, 
-       params, mapleaves, cpu, gpu, f32, f64
+       DepthwiseConv, Dropout, AlphaDropout, LayerNorm, BatchNorm, InstanceNorm, GroupNorm,
+       params, mapleaves, cpu, gpu, f32, f64, param, data
 
 include("optimise/Optimise.jl")
 using .Optimise
diff --git a/src/layers/basic.jl b/src/layers/basic.jl
index dea0089f..a86b9310 100644
--- a/src/layers/basic.jl
+++ b/src/layers/basic.jl
@@ -189,3 +189,6 @@ end
 function (mo::Maxout)(input::AbstractArray)
     mapreduce(f -> f(input), (acc, out) -> max.(acc, out), mo.over)
 end
+
+param(x) = x
+data(x) = x