Installing the LearnPlatform Chrome Extension

What is the LearnPlatform Chrome extension?

Designed to give K-12 leaders insights into student edtech access, the LearnPlatform Chrome extension allows administrators to know what edtech products are being used in their organization. The extension collects information about domains associated with apps or sites in the LearnPlatform product library. The information collected via the Chrome extension is never used to identify any specific student; rather it provides data to help schools and districts understand and improve how technology supports teaching and learning.

When the LearnPlatform Chrome extension is installed on a user's browser and that user visits a site that is included in our product library, the extension activates and captures information. The LearnPlatform icon changes from gray (inactive) to colored (active). When the extension is activated, general usage information is collected. This information can include a school-provided user ID, the time of day, and information about the domain and web site.

For more information about the privacy and security practices related to the Chrome extension and LearnPlatform, please visit our Privacy Center.

What is the difference between the Educator and the Student extension?

There are two LearnPlatform Chrome extensions; one for educators and another for students. The user data collected and presented in the platform varies

The data collected by LearnPlatform Chrome Extensions is gather only from edtech products found in the LearnPlatform community library. Data from products outside of the LearnPlatform Library is ignored.

Refer to What user data will be collected and transmitted by the LearnPlatform Chrome Extensions for information data collection.

How do I install the LearnPlatform Chrome extension?

How do I make sure my LearnPlatform Chrome extension is pulling data?

To ensure that your LearnPlatform Chrome Extension is pulling data for all your students or educators, please make sure that:

• Students and educators are logged into their Google accounts while using the Chrome browser
• Students and educators are accessing products via Chrome as a browser
• Your organization's student and faculty/staff domains are included in our system for your usage to match your organization. If you have not done so already, send your faculty/staff domains to the LearnPlatform team via support@learnplatform.com to be added.
• The Chrome extension is lit up, as opposed to greyed out, when accessing an educational product (below)

For additional information about troubleshooting your Chrome extensions see Troubleshooting my LearnPlatform Chrome Extension.

What user data will be collected and transmitted by the LearnPlatform Chrome Extensions?

For educators:

A GSuite identifier, typically  an active email address. If an educator list is provided by the customer, a name as well as a notification of point of access for published edtech products will be visible on the Chrome Extensions usage dashboard (see below): 

For students:

A GSuite identifier, typically and active email address (utilized only on the backend of the platform) and a notification of point of access for published edtech products. All student data is aggregated at the school or district level and is not currently available by name, class, course, etc. 

No PII is shared in the Chrome dashboard.

Is the data collected for Educators, Staff or Students?

The customer decides which organizational units (OUs) are connected to the Chrome Extensions. The Extensions can be installed for educators and/or staff (using the educator extension) or students (using the student extension).

Is data transmitted from the customer to LearnPlatform?

Data is transmitted through organization-level GSuite educators/students who are authenticated with their credentials and are utilizing a Chrome browser (device agnostic). There is no data coming from customer-owned software or servers.

Is the data stored by LearnPlatform?

Please refer to Page 6 Item 5 in our data sharing agreement (attached).

How is the data used?

Please refer to Page 7 Item 6 in our data sharing agreement (attached).

What is the recommended OU structure for installing the extension to only one group (students or teachers)?

✅  The approach below facilitates the deployment of an extension to the highlighted yellow OU, enabling all teachers at all schools to get it, but no students.

• Educators
  • District 1
    • School A
    • School B
    • School C
• Students
  • District 1
    • School A
    • School B
    • School C

The reverse applies to students.

❌  The approach below makes it harder to deploy the extension since you cannot use a single OU but instead must select them individually.

• District 1
  • School A
    • Educators
    • Students
  • School B
    • Educators
    • Students
  • School C
    • Educators
    • Students

Our recommendation is to group only the teachers/students into a hierarchy of only teachers/students and the remaining group into a separate hierarchy so that you can pick the highest OU to target the most users of a specific group.