Make every learning moment count.
Adaptive learning that meets every student where they are.
Higher potential for every learner.
Built with tutors, for tutors — and the families who trust them.
My Progress Sample
A mastery summary like this is the only thing saved from each session — see how we handle student data.
How it works
Tutors bring the teaching. Highlighter builds the practice engine around it — and a human reviews every course before a student ever sees it.
Tutors upload & price
A tutor uploads the lessons, worksheets, and videos they already teach from, and sets their own pricing for courses and live sessions.
We build the adaptive course
Highlighter converts that material into an adaptive course — then the tutor reviews and approves every lesson before it publishes. No exceptions.
Diagnostics find the gaps
Students take short diagnostics that pinpoint exactly which skills are solid and which need work — no busywork, no guessing.
Targeted practice + check-ins
The engine generates follow-ups aimed at each gap, and the tutor checks in live — by video, right on the platform — to keep learning human.
Built for tutors first
Highlighter is not a marketplace that replaces tutors with content. It is the engine behind the tutors families already know and trust.
- ✓Bring your own students. Your families come with you. The relationship stays yours — Highlighter never markets other tutors to your students.
- ✓Your material, your voice. Courses are built from what you upload, reviewed by you, and published under your name.
- ✓Set your own prices. For courses and for live sessions — 1:1 check-ins, small groups, and full tutoring hours.
- ✓Less prep, more teaching. The adaptive engine handles practice, grading, and follow-ups, so your time goes to the moments that matter.
The math families already do
What could your family save?
Drag the slider. Private tutoring is wonderful — and priced by the hour. Highlighter keeps your tutor in the loop for a flat monthly price.
At the common rate of $100/hour, that's what the month looks like — versus Highlighter at $129/mo, which includes daily adaptive practice plus live tutor check-ins.
Trust & Safety
Children learn here, so safety is not a settings page — it is how the whole product is built. Plain language, no fine-print games.
Parents own the account
A parent or guardian creates the family account first and gives verifiable consent before any child profile exists. Children under 13 never self-register — there is no child sign-up form, anywhere.
Sessions are ephemeral
We process each learning session, save only the mastery summary — which skills improved, which need work — and automatically delete the raw session data on a short retention window. Less data kept means less data at risk.
Never ads. Never training data.
Student data is never used for advertising, never sold, and never used to train AI models. Full stop. It exists to teach your child — nothing else.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
All data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256). Access inside Highlighter is role-based and logged, and families can request export or deletion of their child's data at any time.
Tiered tutor vetting
Every creator verifies their government ID before publishing anything. Tutors who meet students live 1:1 complete a full background check first. Course-only creators — who never meet students live — follow the model used by platforms like Udemy.
Everything stays on-platform
Messaging, scheduling, and video all happen inside Highlighter — never over personal email, text, or social media. Group office hours are recorded on-platform, and parents can join any session.
Questions parents actually ask
Straight answers, in the same plain language we use everywhere else.
Your child's tutor uploads the material they teach from, and Highlighter turns it into a course — after the tutor personally reviews and approves it. Your child takes short diagnostics that find exactly which skills are solid and which have gaps. The engine then serves practice aimed at those gaps: miss a question, and it explains the idea a different way and checks again with a fresh question. When a gap needs a human, the tutor gets a nudge to check in live.
As little as teaching requires: first name, grade level, chosen subjects, answers to learning questions, and mastery progress. Each session is processed to produce a mastery summary — that summary is all we keep. The raw session data is automatically deleted on a short retention window.
No. Ever. Student data is never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to train AI models. There are no ads aimed at children on Highlighter, and no marketing profiles built from their learning. This is a promise we put in writing in our Privacy & Children's Data policy.
It's the standard COPPA — the federal children's privacy law — sets before a service may collect information from a child under 13. On Highlighter it works like this: you create the family account, you read and check plain-language consent statements, and we verify you're an adult account holder with a temporary $0 card authorization that is never charged. Children never sign themselves up.
Yes — any time, from your account settings. You can review what's stored, export it, correct it, or delete the profile entirely. Deleting the profile deletes the underlying data, and withdrawing your consent does the same. No support ticket, no waiting period, no dark patterns.
That's the plan. We're preparing vendor applications for Education Savings Account programs in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, so eligible families can pay through their state's ESA marketplace (such as ClassWallet) once approved. Until approval is final in a state, families pay out of pocket — we'll say so plainly rather than promise early.
Only what teaching requires: first name, grade, course progress, mastery summaries, and upcoming session context (like which lesson triggered a check-in). Tutors never see your payment details, your contact information beyond on-platform messaging, or anything about your other children unless you've connected them too.
A live video session on Highlighter — never on a tutor's personal accounts. Short 1:1 check-ins (about 25 minutes) focus on the exact gap the adaptive engine flagged; small groups work a shared skill together, and full hours are traditional 1:1 tutoring. Tutors offering 1:1 sessions with minors have completed a background check, group sessions are recorded on-platform, and you can join any session, any time.