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HeyOtto!for Schools

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Student AI for K–12 schools

HeyOtto gives students an AI assistant for building, creating, and learning — while advisors keep visibility, tool controls, and real-time alerts. Classroom use is supported when a teacher wants it. Enrichment — clubs, STEM electives, after-school, and camps — is a strength.

HeyOtto is an AI platform for kids and teens. Otto is the assistant inside it. On the schools side, the same platform is scoped for school-managed use: adult review and tool allowlists that match how you run the room.

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  • Advisor

    I don’t need another lesson-plan suite. I need kids to build in club without disappearing into ChatGPT.

  • Otto

    I’m the assistant in the session. You set the tools and you can see the thread.

Advisor visibilityTool controlsReal-time alertsAges 8–18Student AI

What is HeyOtto for Schools? HeyOtto is an AI platform for kids and teens that schools use in clubs, STEM electives, and enrichment programs — with advisor visibility, tool controls, and real-time alerts. It is enrichment-first; it is not a core-curriculum classroom operating system.

The gap

Students already have AI. Programs don’t have a place for it.

Consumer ChatGPT shows up in robotics, after-school, and AI literacy clubs whether you planned for it or not. Teacher-planning tools help adults prep class. What’s missing is student AI built for program time — with adults still able to see the work and set the bounds.

  • Advisor

    Our STEM kids paste errors into ChatGPT on their phones. We never see the thread.

    Otto

    Keep the assistant in a program-scoped place you can review. I help with the build; you set the tools.

  • Advisor

    MagicSchool is great for teachers. That’s not what our AI club needs.

    Otto

    Right split. They help teachers plan. HeyOtto is what students open in club — with you in the loop.

  • Advisor

    Can we allow code and search but turn images off?

    Otto

    Yes. Tool allowlists are per program profile.

HeyOtto is that layer: student assistant + program oversight.

Classroom use is fine when a school wants it. The lead story is still clubs and enrichment.

What you get

Oversight and tools in one platform

Four pieces every club or enrichment lead needs — without turning the product into a district lesson-plan suite.

  • Assistant

    Student AI that fits club time
    Build, create, prompt, explore — still an assistant.

    Otto helps with debugging, projects, writing, and research-shaped work when you allow those tools.

  • Visibility

    Advisors can see the thread
    No mystery side chats on personal accounts.

    Program-managed access so adults can review what happened in the session.

  • Alerts

    Real-time alerts
    Know when something needs a human.

    Same real-time alerts product name as the family app — one safety pipeline to learn, not a second invent-your-own stack.

    See real-time alerts

  • Controls

    You choose the tools
    Code, images, video, search — on or off.

    Match the program: robotics may want code + search; a younger enrichment block may keep the allowlist tighter.

  • Controls

    Usage limits & quiet hours
    Cap messages or tokens, set quiet hours, and override per student — same controls for a class or one kid.

    Reset period, message limit, and token limit: leave empty for no cap, or set 0 to block. Quiet hours pause chat for students in a set window, and they follow the timezone. Custom limits and quiet hours per student when defaults aren’t enough.

  • Settings

    Faith & values settings
    Configure faith, mission, and values rules so Otto stays inside what your school upholds.

    Hand sensitive questions to a teacher, parent, or chaplain when that’s the right call.

What students can do (when you turn it on)

HeyOtto

Teachers and students can build in HeyOtto — a game for club, a study guide, a document, flashcards, a quiz — then share it so other HeyOtto users can try it.

HeyOtto for Schools

Make it. Share it. Other HeyOtto users can try it.

Tell Otto what you want — a game, a document, flashcards, a study guide, a quiz, a learning tool.

  • The assistant builds it next to the conversation
  • Try it and refine it
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At a glance

Enrichment-first — classroom optional

TopicWhat HeyOtto does hereWhat it doesn’t do
Lead storyClubs, STEM electives, after-school, camps, AI literacy clubsDistrict “AI OS” / teacher lesson-plan suite as the headline
Adult roleAdvisor / teacher visibility into student useReplacing MagicSchool-style planning workflows
Student AIAssistant with tool controlsUnmonitored consumer ChatGPT
CurriculumOptional club playbooks you bringCommon Core alignment claims
ClassroomSupported if a school wants itClaiming core class periods as the product focus

Passport

One identity. Every tool it touches.

HeyOtto Passport gives schools and developers a single way to connect AI-powered tools to HeyOtto. Children use one identity across every app, with one record and one place for safety oversight.

  • Identity

    One student identity
    A connected tool sees the student by name. Access is turned on once, for that student, by an administrator.

    That replaces a guest session or a single login shared by the whole class.

  • Record

    One record
    Activity from a connected tool shows up in that student’s HeyOtto history, beside the work they already did in HeyOtto.

    Review stays on the student. The other app doesn’t keep a separate transcript.

  • Safety & alerts

    One safety pipeline
    Alerts from connected tools use the same real-time alerts feed as the HeyOtto app.

    Staff watch one stream. A new tool does not get its own monitoring setup.

  • Admin

    One place for administrators
    A student joining or leaving is handled once. The roster doesn’t get rebuilt for each experience.

    Bringing on another tool keeps the same oversight. It doesn’t start a second safety workflow.

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Before students get access

  1. 01

    Create the adult / program owner account

  2. 02

    Set the tool allowlist for this club or block

  3. 03

    Confirm you can open a sample thread

  4. 04

    Set real-time alerts routing for staff

  5. 05

    Agree program norms: try first, show your work

FAQ

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Next step

See it against your club or enrichment block

Come talk. We’ll map tools, visibility, and norms to how you actually run the program.

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