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What a principal or a board would ask

Short answers, in plain words, about what Sideroad does with student information and what it needs to run.

The questions that come up

Is student personal information collected?
No. A student profile is a code or a nickname plus teaching settings. Sideroad has no place for a name, a birth date, an Ontario Education Number, a school name, a diagnosis, a score or a note about a child, and nowhere to upload an IEP or student work.
Does anything leave the device?
No. Profiles and sets are kept in the browser on the teacher's device and are not sent to Sideroad or to anyone. There is no analytics and no advertising.
Are there accounts to manage?
No. There is no sign-in, so there is nothing for an administrator to set up, pay for or remove.
What does it need to run?
An ordinary web browser, on a school Chromebook, a laptop or a phone. Nothing to install. Sheets print on Letter paper.
Does it follow the Ontario curriculum?
Every sheet carries its Ontario expectation code. Sheets exist today for Mathematics: Number for Grades 1 to 4, and money for Grades 1 and 2.
Where is the curriculum text?
Sideroad keeps expectation codes and its own short paraphrases, not the Ministry’s wording. The full text is on the Ministry’s curriculum site (opens in a new tab).

The privacy page has the longer version. For anything it does not answer, write to us on the Contact page.