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About TutorCat

How parents stay involved

Consent, session summaries and transcripts, wellbeing check-ins, screen time, the weekly digest, and the one thing that stays private.

On this page
  1. Consent comes first
  2. Every session, summarised
  3. How your child is feeling
  4. Screen time that fits your family
  5. A weekly digest by email
  6. What stays private

TutorCat is built so a parent can see how their child is learning without standing over their shoulder. Children are told, on the screens they use, that a linked parent can see their sessions.

Children below the age of digital consent in their country need a parent or guardian to say yes before they can use TutorCat. Until a parent does, the child can only finish signing up.

  1. During sign-up, the child enters their parent's email and relationship.
  2. The parent receives an email with a link. They sign in (or create a parent account) and see a consent screen that explains, in plain words, what TutorCat collects and why.
  3. The parent ticks the agreement and taps Grant consent →. The child can start straight away.

Consent belongs to each parent separately. If two parents have both said yes and one withdraws, the other parent's consent still stands. A parent can withdraw at any time from Settings with Withdraw consent…. The consent age for each country is listed on the Privacy and your data page.

Every session, summarised

The parent home page has a tab for each child. Under Sessions, each session has a short summary written after it ends, with a "Struggled with" line where the child found something hard. Tap Read → to open the session.

A session as a parent sees it: the summary, a "Struggled with" note, the full transcript, and "Wellbeing that day"
  1. The summary comes first
  2. Where they got stuck
  3. Your child knows
  4. Read the whole chat

A session page shows:

  • the Summary, and where the child Struggled with something.
  • the Full transcript of the conversation, with "Maya knows you can read this" at the top. The first few messages show first; Show 2 more messages (or however many there are) opens the rest.
  • Wellbeing that day, if the child checked in on the same day.

Summaries are written by AI and can be incomplete or wrong, so the full transcript is always there to read.

Further down the home page, Gaps points out patterns worth a look (such as "Needs more scaffolding") with a suggested next step, and the Skill profile describes what the child did over the last 30 days. It is not a score.

How your child is feeling

Children can do a quick daily check-in under Wellbeing: their mood, how confident they feel about school, and an optional note of up to 500 characters. Before they write, the page tells them plainly: "Heads up: a parent you've given consent to can see your mood, confidence, and this note."

The student's check-in page, with the line telling them a parent they've given consent to can see their mood, confidence and note
  1. Told who can see it
  2. An optional note
  3. Takes a few seconds

A parent sees the last week of check-ins on the Wellbeing card, with a simple word for the overall picture (such as "Steady" or "Mixed"), and can open All check-ins for the child's notes. Notes are checked by an automated safety system so TutorCat can help if a child needs it. They are never used for tutoring.

Screen time that fits your family

In Settings, each child has their own screen-time controls:

  • Daily limit: 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes of learning time. Reading past sessions doesn't count.
  • Quiet hours: a window with no sessions, set in your own time zone.
  • When the limit is reached: choose Warn or Block.
    • Warn shows your child a 5-minute heads-up, then lets them carry on.
    • Block pauses new questions at the limit. A reply already on its way finishes, and old conversations stay readable.
A parent's Settings: daily limit, quiet hours, Warn or Block, and the consent records for each parent
  1. Daily limit
  2. Quiet hours
  3. Warn or Block
  4. Each parent's own consent

When a Block limit is reached, your child sees a calm "That's it for today" screen. It never locks them away from help: Need to talk to someone? takes them straight back to the message box, and TutorCat checks a message for safety before it applies any limit.

The limit screen on a phone: "That's it for today", today's minutes and streak, Look at my portfolio, and Need to talk to someone?
  1. Help is never locked
  2. Past work stays open

A weekly digest by email

The Weekly digest card in Settings sends you an email about each child's week, on the day you choose. Switch it off per child whenever you like.

What stays private

TutorCat's screens put it in one line: parents can see sessions "except when a child tells us someone is hurting them, which stays private to keep them safe." Here is exactly what that means.

If something a child writes or sends suggests someone at home may be hurting them, TutorCat:

  • shows the child free helplines and encourages them to talk to a trusted adult outside the home, such as a teacher, a school counsellor or a relative.
  • sends no email and shows no alert to any parent.
  • leaves that message, and the reply to it, out of everything a parent can see: the transcript, session summaries, the weekly digest, wellbeing notes and any data export. Nothing marks where it was.

This is because the person a child needs protecting from may be someone at home.