Terms of use

The short version. Yep Edu is run by one parent in his spare time. It is offered as-is, with no warranty, and we are not responsible for what happens when you use it. If that doesn't work for you, please don't use it.

Who runs this

Yep Edu is a personal project, not a company. It was built for one family's kids and then opened to others. There is no dedicated support team and no service level. The person who runs it, and any admin he has authorized, may help families and teachers who write in; an admin sees only what the privacy policy lists for that admin's permission.

To see whether the service is used and keep it working, the person who runs it, and any admin he authorizes, looks at a usage summary: counts per family, such as active days and sheets finished, never your children's work. The privacy policy lists exactly what it shows and what each admin permission can open.

What it costs

Yep Edu costs nothing today. A paid plan may be added later for the parts that cost money to run, such as the AI features. Before that happens we will say here what stays free and what doesn't, and nobody is charged without choosing a paid plan.

Families who joined while the site said it was free are our beta testers, and Yep Edu stays free for them. If that is you, your family settings page shows the plan as Beta. The usage caps still apply.

Your account

• You must be an adult and the parent or legal guardian of any child you add.
• You are responsible for your password and for your children's logins.
• Only add children you have the right to make decisions for.
• If you connect an AI agent to your account over MCP, it acts with your permissions. You are responsible for what it does.

Adults in your family

If you invite a co-parent or a tutor, you are responsible for choosing them. A co-parent can do almost everything you can with your children's information, and a tutor sees the children you list for them. Invite only people you trust with that, and remove anyone you no longer trust. What each can see is in the privacy policy. Anyone you invite accepts these terms when they join, and the rules in "Your account" apply to them too.

If you are a tutor, the account is for helping the children a family listed for you. Use what you see about a child only for that, and don't pass it on or copy it elsewhere. Don't try to reach any other child or other information of the family's. The family can remove you at any time, and you can leave.

The Classroom

A teacher account is a different kind of account from a family. If you sign up as a teacher, the profile you write is shown to parents before they decide, so keep it true; an account whose profile is false can be suspended. You may only use a class roster to teach that class.

If you are a parent: enrolling a child with a teacher is your decision alone, and you can undo it at any time from your dashboard. We do not vet teachers. Nothing on a teacher's profile is checked by us — not their name, their school, their qualifications or their experience — and there is no background check of any kind. Only enrol a child with a teacher you already know and trust. What a teacher can see is listed in the privacy policy and shown to you again on the consent screen. A teacher can send your child a message only if you allow it, and each one waits for your approval.

The person who runs the site may suspend a teacher account at any time, with or without notice, if there is a reason to. A suspended teacher loses the console and their class links stop working; nobody's work is deleted. A teacher can export their own class gradebook, and can delete a class — which removes the roster and the sheets that class assigned, permanently. Stars children already earned stay with them.

Worksheets, grading and the tutor

Practice sheets, answer checking, photo grading and the tutor chat are produced partly by AI models. They make mistakes: a problem can be wrong, a mark can be misread, and the tutor can say something unhelpful or untrue. Check the work. Yep Edu is practice, not a replacement for school, a teacher or your own judgment.

Messages between friends pass an automatic safety check, and that check can miss something or stop a harmless message. It is a help, not a guarantee. You can read every message your child sends or receives, and you decide who they are friends with.

Working levels

Yep Edu estimates the grade level your child is working at in each math and reading skill, for example "addition: grade 3" or "spelling: grade 2". Reading skills include phonics, spelling, comprehension and vocabulary. The estimate comes only from the sheets your child does here, including an optional math placement check that looks above and below their grade, measured against Maryland's state standards, the standards Montgomery County Public Schools teach to.

A reading level is the grade of the passages your child reads well. We measure the grade of each passage Yep Edu writes or keeps in its library with a readability formula, and a grade counts for comprehension only once main-idea and inference questions have been answered there, not recall alone. Passages you add yourself are not measured and do not count. A formula can misjudge a passage, so treat reading levels with the same care as the rest. Phonics is answered on screen, by choosing among written words, so it shows recognising sounds in print rather than reading aloud. A spelling answer counts only when the device read the word aloud; where it could not and showed the word, the answer does not count.

Science is shown topic by topic from kindergarten to grade 5, not as a grade level: each topic reads mastered, growing, not yet or untested. The questions come from a bank we wrote and checked against the Next Generation Science Standards, which Maryland uses for science. No teacher or curriculum expert has reviewed them, and a question can be wrong. Some standards are about running an experiment or building something; a worksheet tests the idea behind them, not the doing, and the ones that can only be done by hand are listed without counting. Science results are for you; your child's teachers do not see them here.

A teacher your child is enrolled with can suggest their own level for a skill. You will see it next to ours and can accept it, which changes where home practice starts, or reject it. In their class, the teacher's level sets where the class's leveled sheets start.

It is an estimate, not a test, a diagnosis or a school placement. No teacher or curriculum expert has reviewed how we turn the standards into levels, and some levels will be wrong. Yep Edu is not affiliated with Montgomery County Public Schools or the Maryland State Department of Education. Please don't make a decision about your child's schooling on a level alone.

No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. It may change, break, lose data or shut down at any time, with or without notice. Download anything you want to keep; the family settings page has an export button.

Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the people who run Yep Edu are not liable for any damages of any kind arising from your use of it, or from not being able to use it. That includes lost data, lost time, and decisions made on the basis of a score, a recommendation or something the tutor said. If you have not paid for the service, you agree that this limit is fair. Where the law doesn't allow a limit this broad, liability is limited to the least the law permits.

Nothing here limits a right you have under a law that cannot be waived by agreement, including children's privacy law.

Acceptable use

• Don't try to reach another family's data.
• Don't use the site to harass anyone, including in competitions and friend messages.
• Only share your child's friend code with families you know.
• Don't hammer the AI features; each family and each teacher has a usage cap and hitting it is fine.
• If you teach a class, use what you see about a child only to teach that child. Don't pass it on.

We may suspend or delete an account that breaks these rules.

Leaving

You can download everything we hold about your family, or delete all of it, from the family settings page at any time. Deleting is permanent.

Changes

If these terms change in a way that matters, the version date at the top changes and we will ask you to accept the new version. Questions: privacy@yepgent.com. See also the privacy policy.