What we store, and who can see it.
Madar hosts other people’s academies. Most of what is stored belongs to a teacher and their students, and the platform’s job is to keep each academy from seeing any other.
What is held about you
- Your name and e-mail address, and a hash of your password — never the password.
- Whether your e-mail address has been confirmed.
- Your progress: what you have opened, finished, scored and rated.
- What you write — forum posts, applications, answers.
- Whether you are a man or a woman, only if you have said so. It is asked for one reason — some academies teach men and women separately and enforce it — and it is only shown to you if you are in such an academy. Nothing else reads it. You can clear it at any time.
Who can see it
Your teacher can see your progress and what you write in their academy. Other academies cannot see any of it: separation is enforced in the database itself with row-level security, not by queries remembering to filter, so a mistake in application code cannot leak across academies.
Quiz answer keys never leave the server, and video and audio play through short-lived signed links rather than public URLs.
The study assistant
Academies can switch on an AI tutor. When they do, your questions and its answers are stored so the teacher can see what was said in their academy’s name. The tutor is given only that course’s own material — never quiz answers — and is not trained on anything you write.
Activity mail — a reply to you, an announcement in your academy — obeys the switch on your account and can be turned off. Password resets, e-mail confirmation and being admitted to a course ignore that switch, because each answers something you just did.
Deleting things
Deleting an academy removes everything inside it. For your own account, ask us, or your teacher if it is their academy you want to leave.
Cookies
A session cookie to keep you signed in, and a preference cookie or two — your theme, and whether you build in full screen. No advertising or cross-site tracking.
Madar is in active development. This page describes what the software does today and will be reviewed before general availability.