Polaris is a listening and learning tool that helps schools collect large-scale student feedback on the practices that matter most. Voice-first sessions, actionable insights, and privacy built into every layer.
Up to 10,000
Students recording at one time
Full
School or district analysis
20–60 min
Feedback sessions
Real
Actionable feedback
Listen and Learn
Checkbox questionnaires flatten nuance. Focus groups don't scale. Polaris replaces both with interactive sessions where students share honest, detailed feedback on their own terms.
Recording
Student discussion
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Report
Polaris processes every response and surfaces what matters — themes, sentiment, safety flags, and keyword patterns — backed by the original student audio. Ask questions about virtually anything at your school.
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Response Rate
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Sentiment
Themes
Student Experience
Students join sessions with unique room codes so teachers can monitor participation in real time.
Voice recording built in. Every insight links to the original audio.
Students speak their first language. Auto-translate supported for teachers.
Group discussions, one-on-one interviews, or voice-to-text — students pick how they share.
Students control their own privacy with built-in consent at session start.
FERPA/COPPA/CIPA compliant. Encrypted audio, automatic PII removal, and zero data sales — it's in our nonprofit bylaws.
Analysis & Insights
Polaris clusters responses into emergent themes by frequency and sentiment.
Positive, neutral, mixed, and negative breakdowns across all responses.
Ask in plain English. Get evidence backed by real student quotes.
Recommendations tied to the latest educational research with audio timestamps.
Our process is refined in collaboration with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods researchers.
Teacher Tools
Monitor sessions in real time. Track progress, manage questions.
Manage sessions, view reports, and track insights from one place.
When conversations wrap up, generate your full report within a day.
Plan and schedule listening sessions ahead of time for your classes.
Download reports, raw data, and analytics for your records.
Full multi-language pipelines — transcribe, translate, and analyze in 50+ languages natively.
Images, video, and drawing — students choose how they express themselves.
Drag-and-drop question flows, branching logic, and template library.
Import your school or district's existing data — teacher surveys, discipline records, test results — and Polaris adds this context to its analysis.
Track how student sentiment and themes evolve over weeks and months.
Create, schedule, and manage hundreds of sessions across schools from one control panel.
Cross-reference insights with demographics. See impact on specific student groups.
Anchor vignettes that add context to quantitative and qualitative data, bridging the gap between numbers and narratives.
Ideas we're exploring that may find their way into Polaris.
Parent visibility into school climate themes — no individual student data.
Guided suggestions and prompts delivered in real time as the conversation unfolds.
Students play interactive games inspired by Jackbox that surface feedback about school processes and experiences.
Students and staff submit photos or videos that feed into the analysis alongside voice and text data.