For IT and network administrators

Compass is an ordinary web page. There is nothing to install, no browser extension, and students do not create an account. A student's typed words are kept in their own browser's local storage and are never sent. The page sends a few coded signals to Compass's own server when a student asks for a step, sees one, or taps a choice: the kind of step shown and its source, and, for a reviewed step, which topic and which step of it the student was on, which try it was, and how the student said it went (or that they only looked at it). When a student taps a topic under "Tap the one you're working on", it also sends one broad label worked out from the student's words: schoolwork, writing, money, exercise, focus, rest and stress, or general. A student's words themselves are never sent, and the step signal is checked against a fixed set of coded values, with anything else rejected before storage. The signals are stored without anything that links them to a student. If a student joins a class with a code, the browser keeps a class cookie for up to a year: it records which class the browser joined and when, and nothing that names the student. Clearing the site's data in the browser removes it. It loads no third-party scripts or trackers, and its typefaces are served from this site rather than fetched from Google, so opening the page makes no request to any outside domain. The only external address on it is the crisis-helpline directory findahelpline.com, and that is a link a person chooses to click. Teachers who sign in do have an account; students never do. Details: Privacy and Safety.