Terms and Conditions

Who Provides This

Connected Classroom is the working name of the independent practice of Timothy Cook, a practicing international classroom teacher. It is not a company. There is no staff, no investors, and no incorporated entity. Where these terms say "I," that is literal, and where they say "you," that is whoever is using the tools or reading the writing.

Everything here is free. There is no paid tier, no subscription, no trial, no institutional license, and no donation model. If that changes, these terms change first.

Using the Tools

The Intelligence Suite comprises UDL Architect, Wonder Web, CrossLink, and REAL Connections. They are provided for non-commercial educational use.

Educators

Use them freely for your own teaching, planning, and professional learning. No account is required and none exists.

Students

These tools are designed for educators, not for students. If a student ever uses one, it must be under direct educator supervision. Do not enter a student's name, work, record, or any other identifying detail into these tools, and do not ask a student to enter their own.

Schools and districts

Use them across your setting as widely as you like. There is nothing to license and nothing to sign. If your procurement process needs documentation, the Data and Governance page is written for exactly that purpose.

What You Own, and What I Keep

What you type

Your objectives, standards, questions, and context remain entirely yours. They are processed to produce the output and are not stored on any server I control. They are never used to train any model.

What the tools generate for you

Use it freely in your own teaching: adapt it, print it, share it with colleagues, build on it in your classroom. What you may not do is sell it, package it into a paid product or service, or otherwise use it commercially.

What I keep

The tools themselves, the instructions and frameworks behind them, the writing on this site, and the concepts developed across it remain my intellectual property. They are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, which means you may share them with attribution, and may not use them commercially or distribute modified versions of them.

What You May Not Do

• Use the tools or their outputs commercially: resale, paid services, paid products, or paid professional development built on them, without written agreement.
• Reproduce or republish the writing, frameworks, or tool instructions as your own, or distribute modified versions of them.
• Attempt to extract the underlying instructions from the backend, or reverse-engineer the system.
• Enter student names or identifying details, or use the tools in a way that puts a child's information into them.
• Use the tools to produce content that violates academic integrity, encourages discrimination, or breaks applicable law.
• Automate, scrape, or overload the tools in ways that degrade them for other teachers.

What I Do Not Promise

These tools are provided as they are, with no warranty of any kind.

• Accuracy. Output is generated by a general-purpose AI model. It can be wrong, misaligned with your standards, or inappropriate for your context. Every output requires your professional judgment before it reaches a student. The tools are built on that assumption rather than excused by it.
• Availability. These are free tools maintained by one person. They may be slow, briefly unavailable, changed, or retired. Do not build a lesson you cannot teach without them.
• Learning outcomes. No tool here guarantees any educational result. They are drafting aids for teachers, nothing more.
• Community partners. REAL Connections suggests types of organizations that may fit a standard. It does not verify, endorse, or vouch for any real organization. Vetting, safeguarding checks, and every safety assessment for any external partner or visitor remain entirely your school's responsibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of these tools or this site.

Stopping

You can stop using the tools at any time by closing the page. Because nothing you enter is stored, there is no account to close and no deletion request to make. Anything saved in your browser clears itself within 24 hours, and you can clear it immediately from your browser settings.

I may withdraw a tool, restrict access, or take the whole suite down, particularly in response to misuse or a security problem.

Concerns and Changes

If something here concerns you, or if you believe a tool has done something it should not, write to ethics@connectedclassroom.org. I would strongly prefer to resolve anything directly and personally, and I read everything myself.

These terms are updated when the practice changes, and the date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Continued use after a change means the current version applies. There is no mailing list and no account, so this page is the notice.