A parent's guide to OpenLearn

What your child gets

Past papers your child can sit against a timer, a daily plan they write themselves, and XP, levels and streaks that reward steady study.

A coding Playground with an AI tutor that gives hints and explanations but never the answer to an exercise.

From 13: Spoken English, where an AI partner talks through everyday situations and shows a better way to say each line. Nothing is recorded and the conversation is not saved.

From 7 to 13: kids mode, which you set up from your own account. Your child learns English by listening and tapping, with no AI and nothing to type.

What it costs

Nothing. Every past paper is free. Accounts are created without a card, so there is nothing that can be charged, and the app shows no advertising.

What we keep

To run the account: your child's name, the phone number or email they sign in with, their grade, and their preferred language.

To show progress: the papers they sit, time spent studying and their progress.

To improve the app: which pages and buttons are used, the device and browser type and an approximate location, through our analytics provider. These records are tied to an account number, never to a name or phone number.

In kids mode we keep only a first name, an age and the PIN you choose. No phone number or email is ever asked of a child.

We never sell personal data. You can ask for a copy of your child's data, or for the account to be deleted, on WhatsApp.

How the account is kept safe

A school account is signed in on one device at a time. If a phone is lost, signing in on another device signs the lost one out.

Pasting code into the coding editor from outside is switched off, so the work your child does there is their own.

Under 18, a learner cannot write posts or comments of their own, only pick set quick replies, and does not appear in search or in Discover.

How to see their progress

For a child in kids mode, your own account shows what each child has done.

An older child with their own account has no parent view yet. The quickest way is to sit together and open their Progress page: it shows their streak, their study time this week and the badges they have earned.