What runs at your college
The student decides who sees it
A finished piece of work stays inside your college until the student says otherwise. Nothing goes public on its own, and no one at the college has to remember to keep it that way.
What the student chooses
Three choices, and all three start as no
When a piece of work has been marked and approved, the student sees three switches. Each one is separate. Each one starts off.
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1. Keep it private
This is what happens if the student does nothing.
The work, the marks and the comments stay on your servers, under your rules. Nobody outside the college can open it. There is no public link, because none was ever made.
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2. Share a link
The student turns this on to get one web address for that piece of work. Anyone they send it to can open it and check it. No account, no sign up, no phone call to your office. It still does not appear in any search.
Example address, in the shape it takes:
readyho.com/priya-sharma/8f2a-4d1c
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3. Let employers find it
The student turns this on to show up when an employer searches. This is a separate switch, because being found by a stranger is not the same as sending a link to three companies you applied to.
It sits on top of sharing a link, and the student can turn it off at any time without touching anything else.
Why it matters
Why this protects the college
Picture a student's name, your college, and their marks turning up in a search result. Now picture nobody being able to show where the student agreed to that. That problem lands on the college, not on the software.
So every switch starts off. The student agrees before anything is published, not on a form somebody collects afterwards. If the student never turns a switch on, there is nothing for you to explain.
Four things are built in, and none of them depend on staff remembering.
- Your faculty approve first. The student is only asked after the work has been marked and signed off.
- Only colleges we have checked can publish. Test and training setups cannot reach the public site at all.
- The student can turn any switch off on its own. Turning off employer search does not turn off their link.
- Turning it off takes the page down. It is a switch, not a request that somebody at the college has to process.
Limits
What the student cannot change
Students control who sees the work. They do not control the marking.
- A student cannot refuse a score, ask for the work to be marked again, or edit a comment.
- A student cannot hide a weak result from the teacher marking it.
- If a switch could hide a bad mark, every shared record would be worth less. So it cannot.
Turning a link off stops that link working. It cannot reach a file somebody downloaded, a screenshot, or a link pasted into a job application last year. Nothing can, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Next step
Get started
ReadyHo is free and open source. It runs across your departments, and a college can start with one course or roll it out widely. You will see the consent controls sitting under real student work before you decide anything wider.
The rest of what runs at your college
- Set the work Your teacher writes the project and a simple scorecard once, then reuses both every year.
- Collect the work Send a project to one student, a group, or a whole year. The actual work comes back in one place.
- First draft scores Every submission comes back scored against your scorecard, with comments. No student ever sees this part.
- Your teacher decides Your teacher sees the work and the draft side by side, changes anything they disagree with, and sets the mark.
- An industry signature A working professional checks the same work and puts their name and credentials to it.
- The proof The work, the scorecard, all three opinions, and who gave each one. One page an employer can open.
- Cost control You hold the account, pick what it uses, and set a spending limit. Nothing is billed through us.
- Your servers One install on your own machine. Student work, drafts and marks never leave your college.