Create better cards
Keep each card focused on one concept, term, example, or misconception.
Teacher guide
Create better cards, support calm practice, and use evidence wisely.
Hippo is built around a simple loop: create reviewed cards, help students retrieve one idea at a time, then use classroom signals to decide what needs support next.
Support calm practice
Students retrieve one idea at a time, then rate how well they remembered it.
Use evidence wisely
Treat recall patterns as planning signals, not automatic attainment judgements.
The 95+ card-quality rule
95+ means student-ready quality, not just a card that exists. Aim for one focused concept, real retrieval demand, accessible language, concise feedback, the right card type, and quick teacher review before students use it.
Common teacher questions
Use these when you are deciding what to create, review, study, or adjust next.
How do I create good Hippo cards?
Start with one clear concept, term, example, or misconception per card. Good cards ask students to retrieve or explain something specific, not just reread notes. Teachers and students can draft cards manually, import simple term-definition sets, or generate AI draft cards from classroom material before review.
Can I turn simple cards into more advanced cards?
Yes. A simple term-definition or basic recall set should be the starting point. From there, educators can create cloze cards for key relationships, misconception-focused multiple choice, prediction prompts, or error-identification cards. Advanced cards should keep the same core concepts and make the thinking deeper, not add random difficulty.
Are AI-generated cards ready for students immediately?
No. AI drafts are not final until reviewed. Hippo keeps generated cards editable so a teacher or learner can check wording, answer quality, card type, tags, and whether suggested missing concepts really belong in the set before saving them for study.
How do students study in Hippo?
Students review one card at a time, try to retrieve the answer, reveal it, and rate how well they remembered it. Harder cards come back sooner; known cards wait longer. The study screen is deliberately calm so the student focuses on retrieval rather than dashboards or labels.
What does Hippo evidence mean?
Hippo shows practice evidence: recall patterns, participation, possible misconceptions, and support needs. These signals help teachers decide what to reteach or practise next, but they do not replace teacher judgement or claim formal mastery by themselves.
What if a card is confusing?
Students can flag a card, and teachers can edit reviewed cards. Good fixes usually shorten the wording, split compound questions, add a clearer hint, or change the card type to better match the concept.
Current beta limits
Privacy and data — what Hippo does today.
These answers describe the current beta and name what is not ready yet. They are product information, not a replacement for a school's privacy, safeguarding, or legal review.
What information does Hippo keep?
Hippo stores account and profile details, school and class membership, decks and cards, study reviews and scheduling data, Live participation and responses, and the minimum records needed to review reports or safeguarding concerns. AI usage telemetry records operational details such as route, model, tokens, latency, cost estimate, and outcome—not the lesson source or generated card text.
When does Hippo send content to an AI service?
When someone deliberately chooses an AI drafting or evaluation action, Hippo sends the content needed for that task to the single configured Google model service. Separately, saving a Reflect response automatically sends the student’s full response and concept to that Google service for a safety check; the Reflect screen explains this before saving. AI can miss concerns, so students are told to contact a trusted adult when they need help. This build has no automatic Anthropic or OpenAI fallback. Generated lesson content stays as a draft for review, and schools should not put unnecessary personal information or sensitive safeguarding disclosures into lesson-source fields.
Who can see student activity?
The intended beta access model limits a student to their own study data and limits teachers to approved students and learning records in the same class. Named school and platform administration roles have separate management access. Safeguarding items are restricted to responsible staff. These controls must still pass independent and hosted-production verification before Hippo is offered as school-ready.
Can I export or delete Hippo data?
Teachers can export class practice data as CSV from Settings. That CSV is not a complete school archive. Complete school export and self-service account deletion are not available in this beta. A signed-in user can open Feedback from the account menu and choose “Privacy or data request”; do not include sensitive student content in the request.
Is Hippo ready for an institutional rollout?
Not yet. Hippo is an early beta. School-level retention and deletion rules, a complete export, the subprocessor record, contractual notices, hosted recovery, independent security review, and real teacher and accessibility validation must be completed before an institutional rollout.
Ready when you are
Create a small reviewed deck, then let students practise one idea at a time.
Free to start. Teachers stay in control: cards are drafts until reviewed, and evidence is a planning signal rather than a formal judgement.