Befundo for students

A one-minute look at where your day, your classes, Tasks and your messages are. It is offered once on your dashboard, and you can take it again from Help.

You can have your own login from age 13, and only if a parent switches it on. They'll add your email address and you'll get an invitation to pick a password.

In the app, go to Me → Profile → Your color and choose one. It tints the app — the tabs, the buttons, the circles you tick things off with — so it looks like yours. It's also how your family tells your classes and routines apart from everyone else's on a shared screen. Change it whenever you like; it applies straight away.

Your parent sets this one when they edit you, and it can be a photo or an avatar built from a face, hair and colors. If you have your own login, you can build your avatar yourself on your account page. It shows up next to your name to the people already in your classes — your teachers and the other families in them — and nowhere public. If there isn't one, you get your initials in your color instead.

You can't have your own login yet, and if you try to sign up on your own Befundo will tell you to ask a parent. You're still in all your classes — your parent sees them for you.

Worth knowing up front: they can see your classes, your attendance, and your messages, and they can turn your login off again. It isn't a secret account — it's your own way in to the same classes.

The one thing on that list your parent cannot see. Write whatever you like in My diary and nobody else can read it — not your parent, not your teacher, not anyone at Befundo.

The only way somebody else reads an entry is if you choose to share that one.

When you write an entry, choose My parents instead of Just me. That one entry goes to whoever looks after you; everything else stays private.

You pick it each time you write, so nothing gets shared by accident, and sharing one today doesn't share the ones you wrote before.

Befundo is in English, Spanish and French. Choose yours under Account → Language on the web, or Me → Language in the app. Your notifications follow it too.

Today and This week are at the top: what's on, what's due, and anything starting soon. Below that is a calendar of everything you're in.

Every class you're in. Open one to get its board, the people in it, and everything the teacher has posted.

What you covered, the handouts for that day, and the homework. Click View all to look back at earlier lessons — handy if you missed one.

Open a class and it's at the top of the board: how often you've been there, and how many notes your teacher has written. Open report gives you the whole thing — every lesson, every note, and how you did on any quick checks.

You can only open your own — other people's pages aren't yours to read, and yours isn't theirs.

Progress under your account gathers all of that across every class you've taken, finished ones included. Nothing is added up into one score and nothing is compared with anybody else's — each class just says how it went.

You get to read it. That's on purpose: a teacher shouldn't write anything about you that they wouldn't say to your face. Your parent can see it too.

If a teacher changes a note it will say edited, so nothing gets quietly rewritten after you've read it. If something in a note doesn't seem right, tell your parent — they can take it up with the class.

Some homework has right answers, so you find out how you did as soon as you've answered. Nobody is compared with anybody: your score isn't shown to the class, it isn't averaged with anyone else's, and it doesn't change your points.

Only multiple-choice and yes/no questions get marked. Anything you write in your own words isn't — a computer marking that would get it wrong too often to be fair.

If your class uses Befundo's lessons, some come as a few short steps, often with a picture, and then Let's try. A lesson opens once your class has covered it.

Press Read to me to hear one step or the whole lesson. It uses a voice that is already on your device, so nothing is sent anywhere. If your device has no voice, there's no button.

It's on your class page and on the lesson's own page. It turns on 5 minutes before the start, and when your teacher starts the lesson you'll see Live now.

When your teacher starts the class, the bell tells you and the link takes you straight in.

Video and a chat everybody in the session can read. You can turn your camera and microphone on and off whenever you like.

It fills the screen so you can read it, and the faces move to a row at the side.

You can't share yours, and that isn't something going wrong: a screen shows whatever happens to be on it, and there are a lot of people in the room. If you want to show the class something, ask your teacher.

When your teacher puts the board up, it appears on your screen. You can look at it, move around it and zoom in — you can't draw on it, and neither can anybody else in the class. There's no button for you to press: it comes and goes with your teacher.

It isn't saved anywhere. When the class ends, the board goes.

Some classes turn spoken words and chat into written notes afterwards. Your parent has to agree before you can join one of those. No video or sound is kept, and the notes never quote students by name.

The class's front page: what's on next, anything you still have to do, and the timeline — everything your teacher has put up, newest first, with the photos.

Ask a question, or reply to someone. It's its own page in the class, next to the board. Your teacher might be the only one who can start a new topic — that's up to them.

A notice from the people running the class — a week off, a change of room, something to bring. It stays pinned at the top of the board so you can find it again.

You can't reply to one. If you want to ask about it, post on the board underneath — that's exactly what it's there for.

Work is the one place to look. It opens on what's still owed, each with a Start, and what you've finished is behind a line you can open. Anything with a due date also shows up on your dashboard before it's due.

Some things your parent answers for you, like permission slips.

Some classes set practice from Befundo's own lessons. You open it, answer the questions and it marks itself. If a question has a hint, use it — asking for a hint never counts against you. It only means you did that one with a bit of help.

You might get different questions from your friend in the same class. That's on purpose: it picks what would help you next. Nobody is put in an order, and there is no score anywhere saying who did best.

You can delete your own messages. Your teacher can hide one, but hiding leaves a mark saying something was there, and they can undo it.

You can ask classmates to be friends from your class's members list. A parent says yes for the other child before you can message.

Only classmates who became your friends, your family, and the people who teach your classes. There's also a daily limit on starting new conversations.

All of them. That's the deal that makes having your own login possible.

In a group, your family chat or a class's Messages, a poll asks a question with a few answers. Tap yours — you can change it until the poll ends. Grown-ups ask polls; you can vote in them.

Unless whoever asked hid the names, everybody in the chat can see who picked what.

Anything on a board or in a message can be reported. It goes to people who can act on it. You don't need to be sure — reporting something that turns out to be fine costs nothing.

They can see your conversations and can block someone. Reporting and telling them aren't alternatives — do both.

Your profile isn't on the internet. People in your classes see your name and picture; nobody else sees anything.

When you add a photo, the app takes out where and when it was taken before it's uploaded. Your diary is yours: nobody can read an entry unless you share it. There's more on how Befundo keeps your data safe.