Screen time, stated plainly

How much screen time is an online homeschool curriculum?

With Clareza Academy it is roughly 30 to 50 minutes on screen per subject per day, so the daily total depends on how many subjects your child takes, while PE is deliberately off screen and kindergarten to Grade 2 science and social studies are hands-on activities you do together.

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What the screen time is

Clara teaches through conversation rather than video: she introduces the idea, asks a question and responds to what your child answered. There is no lecture to sit through.

What is off screen

PE gives a weekly plan of what to go and do. In kindergarten to Grade 2, science and social studies are hands-on activities you lead, followed by a short read-aloud tap game, and kindergarten math is an activity with real objects.

Ways to shorten a sitting

In Learning Supports a parent can switch on Short lessons, which breaks practice into 10 or 15 minute pieces, and Movement breaks, a short stand-up-and-move break every so often. There is also a printable worksheet support that prints a lesson's questions with big writing lines.

Games, and how to hide them

From Grade 3 a child can choose to practise through one of nine learning games, and right answers earn coins for building their own world. If you would rather they did not, the "No timers" Learning Support hides the games.

Printed books, if you want paper

Every course also exists as printable PDF books, a single subject, a whole grade or the whole K-12 library, sold as a one-time purchase at /printed-books.

What this is not

  • It is a screen-based curriculum. Outside PE and the K-2 activities, the teaching happens on a screen.
  • Thirty to fifty minutes is per subject, not per day. Several subjects add up to a few hours.
  • The games are designed to be fun, and some children will want more of them. You decide whether they stay on.

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Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Paying by card is how you give consent.

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Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic (an AI company) receives the chat text and the lesson, with your child's first name but no last name or account details, to write Clara's replies. That is how Clara works, so it is part of the service. If you switch on answering out loud for a child, their voice is turned into text on our own server and then discarded; it is never sent to another company. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies (which can include your child's first name) into the read-aloud voice. Our email provider sends you reports about your child. Nobody trains AI on your child's data, and nobody sells it.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailingour support address. If you refuse the AI sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and Clareza's owner the same day.

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Questions parents ask

How many hours a day is my child on a screen?

Roughly 30 to 50 minutes per subject per day. The total depends on how many subjects your child takes, and PE is off screen.

Is it video lessons?

No. Clara teaches through conversation: she explains, asks a question and responds to your child's answer.

Can we do it on paper?

Partly. Every course is available as printable PDF books bought once, and a support prints any lesson's questions with big writing lines. Mastery is recorded for work done in the app; a parent can add offline hours to a course by hand.

Can I turn the games off?

Yes. Switch on "No timers" in that child's Learning Supports and the games are hidden.

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