Guided paths

Help your child begin

由浅入深

yóu qiǎn rù shēn — “From the shallows into the deep”

A parent account, your children’s profiles and logins, the family view, and what keeps them safe.

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A guided path · 6 chapters

Five chapters for a parent or guardian: from your own account to your child’s first lesson, and what keeps them safe.

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A parent account is free: a home for your children’s profiles, the logins you create for them, and their progress.
Select Create your free parent account, and sign-up opens on the parent card, with what it means set out in full.
It’s a choice you make once: switching back isn’t something you can do yourself, so you tick a box to confirm it.
Continue, and it shows you what a family gets first, before asking you a single question about yourself.
Then it asks for your name and date of birth, because you are the one giving consent for a child.
And your child’s first name, with their age, starting point and goal as optional extras you can leave.
Continue stays off until those are in, and the next steps create your account and confirm your email address.
Once you’re set up, the red bar holds your family’s four tabs: Family, Stats, Explore and Guide.

Your children live under Family, in the red bar: one card for each child you have added so far.
A profile is a record on your account rather than a login: a name, an optional age, and where they are starting.
To add another child, select Add a child. Their name is the only thing you must give, and no email is needed.
Add stays switched off until there is a name; the age and the starting level are yours to fill in or leave.
A profile without a login comes off with the cross on its card, once you confirm, and nothing else goes with it.
Until a child has a login of their own, Stats says so plainly, rather than showing figures nobody ever recorded.
A child with their own login is different: that is a real account, so its card offers Delete account instead of a cross.

When your child is ready to study on their own, Create login on their card turns the profile into an account.
It needs an email address, which can be one you control, and a password of at least eight characters.
Then comes your consent, in plain words: that you are their parent or legal guardian, and agree to the account.
Create login stays switched off until you tick it, and the server refuses any request that arrives without your consent.
It makes a real account linked to yours, records who consented and when, and leaves you signed in as yourself.
Once a login exists, the card says Login active, shows when they last practised, and opens their own page.
To take it back, Delete account closes their account at once, and you can restore it from the card for thirty days.
And a child’s account can’t buy anything, can’t agree to research for itself, and can’t message anyone but you in private.

Your Family tab shows each child, and for one with their own login, when they last practised and on how many days this week.
Select Stats for their own record: lessons completed, their streak, XP, this week’s study time and the day they last practised.
Underneath, how far through each HSK level they are, counted the same way as on their own lessons page.
Explore lists everything they can practise, from lessons and flashcards to listening, reading, speaking and writing, so you can preview any of it.
In the Learning Lab, Family gives each child a card of their own, and never averages two children together.
Their own page starts with where they are: what they recognise, what they can say and write, and what has stuck.
Then what would help them most, in plain words. When nothing stands out, it says so rather than inventing a problem; when something does, the evidence is written underneath.
And under Activity, when they practised across the day, and how close each skill is to the Lab’s threshold.

You see your child’s learning record, what has stuck and what has faded, but never the words they typed.
On their own page, What stays theirs says it plainly: no answer, message or note they wrote reaches you there.
Their results on the optional cognitive tasks stay theirs as well, shown to them alone, not to you or a teacher.
Research use and those tasks stay off until you agree, and the server won’t take that agreement from your child’s own account.
Under Activity, the page-by-page replay of their evening is left out for you, because it shows where they went, not what they learned.
Private messages are limited on the server too: a child’s account can exchange them with nobody but you, their guardian.
And their account stays out of public view: private circles only, off the public leaderboard, and never in the tutor directory.

It starts with the learner. Their learning record, product analytics and research are three separate decisions, and research stays off unless they say yes.
The optional tasks are research too. They open only if the learner agrees, and what is shared is de-identified and never sold.
Her teacher sees the class: who has practised, the medians, and who would benefit from attention, each with a reason rather than a ranking.
Opening a learner shows the same panels she sees about herself, so they are both reading the same picture.
Under Ethics, some things a teacher never sees, whatever the learner agrees to: research results, and anything she wrote in her own words.
In a class of three, group figures are withheld, because a median over three people is really one person’s own result.
The school sees adoption and medians across its classes, listed alphabetically and never ranked. A class too small to report says so.
A parent sees one card for each child, never a combined figure.
On her daughter’s page: where she is, and what would help most, in plain words.
And under Activity, one panel is left out for parents: the replay of every page their child opened.

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Your path · 0 of 6

Your account comes first.
Doing this needs a parent account.
One profile for each child.
Doing this needs a parent account.
A login of their own, with your consent.
Doing this needs a parent account.
How you follow their progress.
Doing this needs a parent account.
What protects them, and what you can see.
Doing this needs a parent account.
Who else can see a learner’s data.
Doing this needs a school administrator account, a teacher account at a school, a tutor account or a parent account.