DiGii@School
Product by DiGii Social
The Bottom Line
Partially. While The Learning Standard has not yet formally evaluated DiGii@School, its experiential approach to digital citizenship aligns with situated learning theory. Practicing social media skills in an AI-monitored environment provides necessary scaffolding. However, reliance on teacher-led instruction for early grades makes its effectiveness highly dependent on classroom implementation.
Pros
- Simulates real-world social media interactions to provide experiential learning in a secure, closed environment.
- Employs AI moderation to deliver immediate, formative feedback on student messaging and online behavior.
- Uses scaffolded progression that shifts from direct instruction in early grades to independent application in later grades.
- Aligns with situated learning principles by teaching digital citizenship skills in the specific context where they are used.
Cons
- Relies completely on teacher facilitation for early grades, making learning outcomes dependent on educator expertise rather than platform design.
- Lacks transparent, peer-reviewed data demonstrating long-term retention of digital citizenship behaviors outside the simulated platform.
- Requires school-wide adoption and moderation, making it unusable as a standalone learning tool for individual parents.
What Do We Know About DiGii@School?
DiGii@School offers a theoretically sound, experiential approach to teaching digital citizenship, though its formal effectiveness remains pending evaluation by The Learning Standard. Your child will not simply read about online safety; instead, they will practice interacting on a simulated social media platform. This method leverages situated learning theory, which suggests that skills are best acquired in the exact context in which they will be applied. For younger students in grades one through four, the program relies heavily on traditional, teacher-led direct instruction. This means the quality of your child's learning depends almost entirely on how well their classroom teacher delivers the provided materials. In grades five and six, students transition into an immersive, walled-garden social network. Here, an AI system monitors their posts and messages, providing immediate corrective feedback when they violate digital etiquette or safety rules. This immediate feedback loop is a well-documented mechanism for correcting misconceptions and shaping future behavior. However, parents must understand that this is strictly a school-based institutional platform. You cannot purchase this for individual home use. The software requires an active cohort of school peers to function effectively, as the core learning mechanics rely heavily on peer-to-peer interaction and conflict resolution in a controlled digital space.
How Does DiGii@School Work?
DiGii@School utilizes an experiential and mastery-based progression to teach digital wellbeing and cyber safety. The curriculum splits into two distinct phases based on the student's grade level. In the foundational phase for grades one through four, educators use provided lesson plans to deliver direct instruction on digital concepts. These lessons build precursor knowledge, introducing vocabulary and basic rules of online behavior through offline classroom activities. The learning mechanics shift significantly in grades five and six. Students log into a closed, simulated social media platform that mimics the functionality of real-world networks. Students create profiles, post updates, and interact directly with their classmates. The platform employs an AI monitoring system that acts as an active cognitive scaffold. When a student attempts to post inappropriate content or share unsafe personal information, the system intercepts the action and delivers real-time guidance. This design forces students to pause and reflect on their digital footprint, utilizing immediate feedback to reinforce the rules of digital citizenship taught in earlier grades.
Strengths and tradeoffs of DiGii@School
The biggest strength of DiGii@School is its use of situated learning through a simulated social network, while its biggest weakness is its heavy reliance on teacher fidelity for the foundational curriculum. Experiential Application: By allowing older students to practice social media skills in a walled garden, the platform moves beyond the rote memorization of safety rules. This experiential application builds behavioral fluency. When students encounter cyberbullying or privacy dilemmas in the simulation, they must actively retrieve and apply their prior knowledge to navigate the situation. Immediate Corrective Feedback: The integration of AI to moderate student interactions provides immediate, formative feedback. Learning science demonstrates that feedback delivered at the exact moment of a misconception is highly effective for behavioral correction. Instructional Dependency: The program's design for grades one through four relies entirely on offline, teacher-led instruction. Without built-in digital practice or spaced repetition software for these younger grades, the retention of precursor skills depends entirely on how often the classroom teacher reviews the material. Transferability: While the simulated environment is robust, it remains unproven how well these heavily scaffolded behaviors transfer to the unmonitored, chaotic environments of actual platforms like TikTok or Instagram. The Learning Standard has not yet formally evaluated the platform to measure this transfer of learning.
Who Might Benefit From DiGii@School?
DiGii@School is best for elementary and middle schools seeking a practical, cohort-based curriculum for teaching digital citizenship. It targets students in grades one through six, with the most robust features designed for fifth and sixth graders preparing to enter the real world of social media. The platform serves educational institutions that want to move beyond theoretical online safety lectures by providing a supervised sandbox for students to practice digital etiquette. Because the program relies on active peer-to-peer interaction within a secure school network, it offers no utility for individual parents seeking a standalone app for home use.
Data Transparency
Does Not Meet Data Transparency Standard
DiGii@School does not meet our data transparency standard. Its privacy policy does not document basic protections, including a statement that it does not sell data, contractual limits on service providers and a COPPA or FERPA commitment.
12 of 35 checks passed
Evaluated October 2026
Privacy Policy →Level 1 · Basic protections
Does not sell data or target ads at students, limits sharing, and lets parents see and delete their child's data.
Not documented: a statement that it does not sell data, contractual limits on service providers, a COPPA or FERPA commitment, parents' right to see their child's data, parents' right to delete their child's data, account deletion
Level 2 · Parent control (meets the standard)
Families can get their data out, know who processes it, and know how long it is kept.
Not documented: a data retention timeline, self-service deletion
Level 3 · Direct data access
Families or schools can pull their own data through an API, in a stated format.
Not documented: an API for retrieving their own data, a named export format
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Parent Access1/8
Does the policy mention parents specifically?
“we need to collect information to allow school staff, students and parents/guardians to log in to the DiGii@School applications.”
Can parents view their child's data?
The policy gives users access to their own information but gives parents no right to view their child's data.
Can parents modify their child's data?
The policy gives parents no right to change their child's data.
Can parents delete their child's account?
The policy does not say parents can delete their child's data or account.
Is there a dedicated Children's Privacy section?
The policy has no section dedicated to children's privacy or COPPA.
Does it reference COPPA compliance?
The policy cites only the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and does not mention COPPA.
Does it reference FERPA compliance?
The policy does not mention FERPA.
Is parental consent required for child accounts?
The policy does not say parental consent is required for child accounts.
Data Portability2/5
Can users access their personal data?
“You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).”
Can users download/export their data?
“If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at info@digiionline.com.”
Is there a self-service data access tool?
Access is by email request only; the policy describes no self-service tool.
Is a specific data format mentioned for export?
The policy does not name any export format.
Is there an API for data access?
The policy does not mention an API for accessing data.
Data Minimization3/6
Is data collection itemized?
“You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates and process your product or service order.”
Can the app be used without a real name?
The policy says a preferred name is collected for DiGii@School logins, so a name is collected.
Can the app be used without an email?
“This is intentionally kept to the bare minimum – at most an email address (adults only) and preferred name.”
Does it state collection is limited to what is necessary?
“This is intentionally kept to the bare minimum – at most an email address (adults only) and preferred name. Those details are used to allow access to the system only.”
Is IP address anonymized or truncated?
The policy does not say IP addresses are anonymized or truncated.
Is location tracking explicitly excluded?
The policy does not explicitly rule out location tracking.
Third-Party Protection4/7
Does it explicitly state no selling of data?
The policy never states that DiGii does not sell personal information, and it allows user databases to be transferred in a sale of the business.
Are third-party providers named?
“In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords.”
Are providers contractually restricted?
The policy only says DiGii will request that third parties follow the policy, which is not a contractual restriction.
No-targeted-advertising commitment?
“This is intentionally kept to the bare minimum – at most an email address (adults only) and preferred name. Those details are used to allow access to the system only. They are not used for marketing or disclosed to third parties.”
Is AI/ML data sharing addressed?
The policy does not address AI or machine learning.
Child-specific sharing restriction?
“This is intentionally kept to the bare minimum – at most an email address (adults only) and preferred name. Those details are used to allow access to the system only. They are not used for marketing or disclosed to third parties.”
Cookies/tracking limited or opt-out?
“Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings.”
Deletion & Retention0/5
Can users delete their account?
The policy does not offer account or data deletion.
Self-service deletion mechanism?
The policy describes no self-service deletion mechanism.
Specific data retention timeline?
The policy gives no data retention timeline.
Auto-deletion of inactive accounts?
The policy does not mention auto-deletion of inactive accounts.
Post-deletion handling described?
The policy does not describe what happens to data after deletion.
Advertising2/4
Advertising model explicitly disclosed?
“In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.”
Free from third-party advertisements?
The policy says third-party ads may appear on the website and does not say the product is ad-free.
Children excluded from ad targeting?
“This is intentionally kept to the bare minimum – at most an email address (adults only) and preferred name. Those details are used to allow access to the system only. They are not used for marketing or disclosed to third parties.”
Ad-free option available?
The policy does not describe an ad-free option or say the product has no advertising.
What This Means
The policy review did not meet our data transparency standard. The checks above show the documented findings and unknowns. A missing statement does not establish how the app handles data in practice.
About this evaluation: Based on automated analysis of Privacy Policy using the Common Sense Privacy Program framework. Quoted text is copied from the policy; unquoted notes are our summary. Results describe the policy disclosures we assessed; unknown checks are excluded from scores. Privacy policies can change. This review reflects the version we analyzed and does not determine legal compliance.
Sources and review method
TLS combines product information and editorial analysis to explain how DiGii@School works, its tradeoffs, and the questions to ask before choosing it. Product features, an instructional rationale and evidence of learning outcomes are different kinds of information.
Formal Learning Standard assessment: not yet completed. Data Transparency findings are reported separately and do not establish learning effectiveness. Read our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions About DiGii@School
Is DiGii@School free?
No, DiGii@School is not free. It is a paid institutional educational platform that costs AUD $6.50 per student per year. Schools or school districts must purchase bulk licenses for their student populations. There is no direct-to-consumer model or free tier available for individual families, meaning your child can only access the platform if their school actively subscribes to the service and implements the curriculum.
Is DiGii@School good for elementary students?
Yes, DiGii@School is specifically designed for elementary and early middle school students. The curriculum targets grades one through six. It uses age-appropriate instructional scaffolding, beginning with teacher-led direct instruction for younger students in grades one through four. By fifth and sixth grade, students transition to hands-on practice in a simulated social network. This gradual release of responsibility aligns well with the developmental stages of elementary learners.
What does DiGii@School teach?
DiGii@School teaches digital citizenship, cyber safeguarding, and online wellbeing. The curriculum covers foundational applied science and career and technical education concepts related to everyday technology use. Students learn how to protect their personal information, practice civil communication, identify cyberbullying, and navigate complex online social dynamics. Rather than just memorizing rules, older students actively practice these skills by interacting with peers in a moderated digital environment.
Has The Learning Standard evaluated DiGii@School?
TLS has not yet completed a Learning Standard evaluation of how well DiGii@School teaches. Its privacy policy has been reviewed for Data Transparency and does not yet document the basic protections (Level 1).
Is DiGii@School COPPA compliant?
A COPPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with COPPA. Policy review note: The policy cites only the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and does not mention COPPA.
Is DiGii@School FERPA compliant?
A FERPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with FERPA. Policy review note: The policy does not mention FERPA.
Does DiGii@School have a children's privacy policy?
No dedicated children's privacy section was found in the reviewed policy. Policy review note: The policy has no section dedicated to children's privacy or COPPA.
Does DiGii@School sell student data?
A statement ruling out data selling was not found in the reviewed policy. This does not establish that the app sells student data. Policy review note: The policy never states that DiGii does not sell personal information, and it allows user databases to be transferred in a sale of the business.
Can you delete your data from DiGii@School?
Account deletion was not documented in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not establish whether deletion is available. Policy review note: The policy does not offer account or data deletion.
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