Privacy
How GibbsEd handles data about students and teachers.
What we collect
- Student accounts: a username chosen by the teacher, a display name, and a numeric PIN (stored hashed with bcrypt). No student email, no phone, no home address.
- Schoolwork: text, photos, and files students submit for their own class's assignments.
- Usage log: the time of each login and each submission, and basic server access logs needed to operate the site.
- Teacher accounts: email, display name, school name, password hash, and an optional 2FA secret.
What we do not collect
- No tracking pixels, no advertising cookies, no third-party analytics.
- No data sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers.
- No personally-identifying information about students beyond what their own teacher enters.
Who can see what
- A student only sees their own assignments and their own submissions.
- A teacher only sees students in classes they teach.
- An administrator account exists for operational support (account recovery, abuse response) and can see account metadata, but does not routinely read student work.
AI-assisted practice feedback
For short-answer writing tasks, student responses may be sent to a third-party language-model provider so the platform can return fast practice feedback (score and suggested revisions). Only the task prompt and the student's response text are sent. No name, username, or other identifier is sent with the content. Responses are not used by the provider to train their models.
Retention
Student submissions are retained for the duration of the course and the following school year so that grades can be reviewed. A teacher or administrator can delete an account on request; this removes the account and its submissions from the production database on the same school day.
Security
Passwords and PINs are stored hashed (bcrypt). Connections use HTTPS. The site runs in a private home-lab environment fronted by Cloudflare; there are no third-party trackers embedded in any page.
Changes
If this policy changes, the update will appear on this page. Teachers using GibbsEd will be notified of material changes by email.