For schools and administrators
A defensible record of phone distraction during online class.
Online schools have lost the visibility a physical classroom gives a teacher. UnlockStudy doesn't replace that — it reconstructs the one signal that matters most for parent conversations: did the student stay engaged on their phone during class, or were they elsewhere?
What it does
- ·Per-session record. Each student's focus % during class, computed from phone-tab visibility events and clipped to the class window.
- ·Post-class email. The teacher receives a summary the moment class ends, ready to forward to a parent — with evidence, not opinion.
- ·Weekly parent digest. Optional. Parents see their student's focus average across the week, with attended/excused/missed counts.
- ·Pause-for-breaks. Teachers can pause monitoring during scheduled breaks; the metrics correctly exclude break time from focus % so the data reflects actual class.
- ·Self-reflection for students. After class, each student sees their own record before anyone else does. Same numbers the teacher saw, framed as growth not punishment.
What it does not do
- ·Read screen content, capture screenshots, record audio or video, or access camera feeds. The phone signal is purely tab visibility — whether the UnlockStudy tab is in the foreground.
- ·Require an app install on student devices. Students join via a browser link or QR code; nothing is downloaded.
- ·Track students outside class. Monitoring runs only between session-start and session-end, only for students who've joined a session via the teacher's code.
- ·Score, rank, or compare students publicly. There's no leaderboard, no score broadcast, no gamification of attention.
Privacy stance
We collect the minimum data needed for the per-session record: student name as entered by the teacher (or by the student at join time), the timestamps of away/return events during class, and — if the school enables it — a parent email for the weekly digest. We don't sell data, don't advertise, and don't share with third parties beyond the school's own teachers.
The full policy lives at /privacy. A Data Processing Agreement is available on request and standard for any school deployment — particularly important for schools with students under multiple data-protection regimes (UAE PDPL, EU GDPR, US COPPA, Indian DPDP, etc.).
How to try it
UnlockStudy is in directed pilots with a small number of online schools. If you'd like to evaluate it for your school — either as a one-class pilot with a single teacher, or a wider trial — write to contact@unlockstudy.app. Mention your school, time zone, and rough class size and you'll hear back within a working day.