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How Class Speedrun handles course materials

Version 0.2 · updated October 22, 2026 · All versions

Class Speedrun is a study planner college students use on their own. Here's what it does with course materials, what it doesn't do, and how to reach us if something about your course needs fixing.

What it does

  • Students add their own class files (syllabus, slides, notes, study guides) or paste text. Each file is private to the student who added it.
  • It ranks a class's topics by how likely they are to be on the next exam, with the reason and the file and page each prediction came from. The ranking also uses class reports: after an exam, students in the course say which topics showed up.
  • It turns the top topics into short practice sessions with questions written from the student's own files.
  • Its Test Plan sums up how a course is tested (format, coverage, what's allowed) from the student's own syllabus and public web pages. Each line shows its source and the source's year. Sources older than about 3 years are hidden.

What it doesn't do

  • No exam content from anywhere else.

    We don't supply exam questions or answers. Practice questions come only from the student's own files, and the research step drops anything that looks like a leaked exam, test bank or answer key before it's used.

  • No sharing or redistribution.

    There is no shared library. Students can't see or download each other's files, notes or questions, and we don't publish or sell them.

  • No homework solving or essay writing.

    The in-app help explains ideas from the student's own files. When asked for answers to graded work, it's built to explain the idea and give a practice question instead of the answer.

  • No ads and no selling data.

    We don't show ads, use ad trackers or sell data, and we don't train AI on students' files.

  • Not affiliated with any school.

    Class Speedrun is an independent app students choose to use. It isn't endorsed by any university.

Where the Test Plan looks

It searches public web pages for:

  • The professor's name with the course code, and words like "exam" or "study guide".
  • The school's directory, to confirm who teaches the course.
  • The professor's own faculty page, personal site and CV, research areas, and public lectures or talks.
  • Official course pages: the catalog entry, department pages, past syllabi, and public course sites or posted slides.
  • Whether the same course shares a syllabus or exams across sections or campuses.
  • The textbook and its publicly listed chapter objectives (never test banks), and the campus tutoring center's public review materials.
  • Review and discussion sites (like RateMyProfessors or Reddit) can turn up in a search, but we don't use them in the Test Plan at all.

Rules for what it keeps and shows:

  • A name that's one or two letters off counts as unclear, not as the same professor, unless the same official directory page confirms it.
  • Facts about grading (like a curve, partial credit or a dropped lowest score) come only from official course pages: the syllabus, the course page or the catalog.
  • For people-search sites and other results we skip, we keep only the address, the site's name and why we skipped it. No text from them.
  • We strip star ratings from anything we keep, and we trim page text to the short excerpts a line actually cites.

What other students see

  • After an exam, a student can tell us which topics showed up. We add that to private counts for the course, with the exam and topic names they typed, how their quizzes went, their study time, how they studied and their grade. Never their files, notes, photos, chat messages or the exam's questions.
  • Other students in the same course only see totals backed by at least 3 signed-up students (5 for grades, study hours and study methods, rounded), never one student's report and never a name.
  • Reports about an exam wait until 7 days after the last date we know of for it, make-ups and other sections included. A student whose exam comes later never gets reports about that exam from the same term.
  • Every ranked topic and every Test Plan line shows where it came from: the student's own file and page, class reports, or the public web page we used.

Hints and photos from class

  • Students can save a hint when a professor says something will (or won't) be on the exam, and add a photo of the slide or board.
  • The app asks them to take photos only where your class allows recording or photos.
  • The photo stays private to that student. For course counts we keep only the topic and whether it's on the exam or not.

How the course-policy check works

  1. The first time a student adds a class, they tick: “I'll only upload materials my course policies allow.” We keep a record of when.
  2. When we read a syllabus or another course file, we look for lines about using AI tools or uploading, sharing or posting course materials.
  3. If we find one, the student sees the exact line, in your words, with the file and page. It stays on their class page until they choose what to do.
  4. Their options: keep only what the course allows (we remove the files they pick, instructor files are picked for them), remove every file, or say that their instructor allows it. We record the choice. We never close the notice for them.
  5. It's a reminder, not a ruling. It looks for common wording, so it can miss a rule. A clear line helps, for example: “Do not upload course materials to AI tools or study apps.”

Requests from professors

Correct or remove a Test Plan summary about your course

Tell us the course and what's wrong. We aim to reply within about 2 business days, and we fix or remove the line.

Stop research summaries about you

We stop making Test Plan research summaries about you and hide the ones that already exist. We aim to reply within about 5 business days. It doesn't change what students upload themselves (see the next item) or the topic totals students report after exams.

Remove your course materials

If you believe a student uploaded your materials without permission, use our copyright process. It explains what to send and what happens next.

How we check a request is really from you

Before we change anything about a named professor, we check by hand. Write from your school email address, and include a link to an official school page that lists that address (like a department directory). We then write to that address ourselves and ask you to confirm. Nothing is changed on an email alone.

Schools and partnerships

Integrity offices, tutoring and teaching centers, and IT teams: if you'd like to talk about how the app fits your policies, or about a pilot, choose “School partnership or pilot” below. We aim to reply within about 5 business days.

Contact us

Only we read this. We use it to answer you and keep a record of the request. Students can use the Contact page, or “Report a problem” under any Test Plan line, which brings them here with that line filled in.

To remove your course materials, use the copyright process linked above.