lans.cloud

lans.cloud for Schools

The one-page answer to “is this tool safe to use with my class?” — written for teachers to forward to their IT or privacy officer.

Privacy by architecture, not by policy

Most edtech privacy pages describe what the company promises not to do with student data. This page is shorter, because the architecture removes the question: the tools on lans.cloud run entirely in the browser, and the site has no server code that can receive student data. Class lists, seating rules, spelling words, scores, and reading passages are processed on the teacher's device and stored, at most, in that browser's local storage. A promise can be broken; a missing endpoint cannot.

The review checklist

What an IT / privacy review will ask, answered

QuestionAnswer
Student accounts requiredNo — no login exists for anyone
Student PII transmitted to serversNo — tools compute in the browser; there is no endpoint that accepts names or lists
Data stored server-sideOnly anonymous page-view counts (no IPs, no cookies, no identifiers)
Class data persistenceBrowser localStorage on the teacher’s own device only
Microphone (noise meter)Audio is reduced to one loudness number in-browser and discarded; nothing is recorded or uploaded
Ads shown to studentsNever in fullscreen presentation modes or embeds; ads exist only on regular pages
Cookies / consentGoogle consent message (Funding Choices) for ad pages per EEA rules; tools work regardless of choice
Sign-up, newsletters, upsellsNone — no email collection anywhere
Offline behaviorLoaded tools keep working if the connection drops mid-lesson
CostFree, no premium tier; ad-supported on regular pages only

Every claim is verifiable in the browser's network tab: use any tool and watch — no student input generates a network request.

Ads and the classroom

The site is ad-supported — that is what keeps it free — but the founding rule is that ads never appear on a projected screen. Every presentation-style tool has a one-click fullscreen mode with zero ads, and the embeddable versions (for Google Sites and class pages) contain no ads either. Ads exist only on the regular browsing pages, in clearly separated slots.

Embedding in class websites

The wheel, timer, name picker, scoreboard, noise meter, exam clock and several others can be embedded with a copy-paste snippet from the bottom of their pages — ad-free inside the embed, no scripts beyond the tool itself.

Start here

The full classroom set is at lans.cloud/classroom-tools, and there's a printable one-page cheat sheet for staff rooms. Questions this page doesn't answer: use the feedback button on any tool page (add your email for a reply) — it goes directly to the developer, and answers typically come within a day. More background on who builds this and why: the about page.