School approval summary
Updated October 15, 2026 · pencilgo.com/for-schools/approval-packet
The product
PencilGo is K–5 practice in math, reading, writing, and science, on paper or screen. Teachers assign worksheets and games, check paper work from a photo, and send families weekly reports. Teacher and school accounts are completely free, with no student limit and no card.
How students sign in
Students use a class code, QR code, or printed login card, then tap their name and a picture or PIN. Students need no email address and do not sign in with Google.
Teachers may sign in with Google and import rosters read-only from Google Classroom (classroom.courses.readonly, classroom.rosters.readonly; names only, no student emails). If your Workspace blocks the import, an admin can trust PencilGo under Admin console › Security › Access and data control › API controls.
Our commitments
- No selling student data, no ads, and no profiling for anything but schoolwork.
- FERPA: PencilGo acts as a school official under the school's direction. The school controls its student records.
- COPPA: the school consents for classroom use on parents' behalf, for educational purposes only.
- Verified school deletion requests are completed within 30 days, archived copies included, and confirmed by email.
- We will review your district's data privacy agreement, including the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement.
Student data PencilGo keeps
- Profile: First name or nickname, grade, focus subjects, avatar and theme, report language, and any learning notes an adult types.
- Class membership and sign-in: Class or school, the picture or PIN the child taps to sign in, and device session records.
- Practice work: Assigned skills, answers, scores, attempts, skipped items, completion, and timestamps.
- Worksheet photos and uploads: Photos of finished paper worksheets and report cards that an adult chooses to upload.
- Games and rewards: Game progress, stars, and rewards a parent sets up.
- Pencil the mascot's daily chat: Which picture the child taps when Pencil asks a fun question (for example, a favorite animal). There is no typing or voice recording.
- Progress reports: Weekly summaries and year reports made from the practice work above.
Not collected: child email address or phone number; birthdate or home address; photos, video, or voice recordings of the child; free-text chat between a child and anyone.
Outside services and the student data each receives
- Railway: Stores all records listed above.
- DeepSeek (based in China), Google Gemini, OpenAI: First name or nickname, grade, practice results, worksheet photos and uploads, and, when a teacher scans a class set, the class list of student names.
- ElevenLabs: The child's first name or nickname inside a greeting such as "Hi Maya!".
- Amazon SES and Resend: The child's first name or nickname and progress summary inside reports sent to the child's own adults.
- Google (sign-in and Google Classroom): Student names on rosters a teacher chooses to import (no student emails are requested). Students do not sign in with Google.
- Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity: Usage data from pages a child visits, such as pages viewed, taps and scrolls, and device and browser details. Clarity records page sessions.
- Stripe, Mailchimp, Chatwoot: No child records. They receive only what adults send them, such as billing details or a support message.