How it works
Corico helps you give spoken feedback on an assignment. You record a message for each paper. You stick a QR code on the paper. The student scans it with their phone and hears you.
You do not need to know what a server is to use the tool. This page explains what happens anyway, in plain words, because you have a right to know where your data goes. If a word is unclear, it is in the glossary.
The picture to remember
Four players are involved. The easiest way is to imagine them as real people or places.
| In reality | The picture | Its role |
|---|---|---|
| Your browser | Your desk | This is where you work: your lists, your recordings in progress. |
| Your Nextcloud on the ENT | Your cupboard | This is where everything is stored to last. It is yours. |
| The relay | A courier | It carries things from the desk to the cupboard. It keeps nothing. |
| The tool's website | The tool's shop | It gives you the tool when you open the page, then it is no longer needed. |
Look closely at the student's arrow: it goes straight to your cupboard. It passes through neither the courier nor the shop, and the student needs no account.
What stays where
Why so many players?
Why Nextcloud? Because it is your space, provided by your ENT (the school's digital workspace). The sounds stay under your control there: you can see them, delete them or cut a link from the interface you already know. So the tool does not need to store anything itself.
Why a relay? For safety, a browser refuses to let a web page talk to another site unless that site has allowed it. The ENT's Nextcloud does not give this permission: that is its setting, and we checked. So the relay acts as the go-between, and does nothing else. Everything it does, and does not do is described.
Why does the browser keep things? Because there is neither an account nor a tool server to keep them in its place. It is like a file on your device: it stays there, and you can erase it with one click.
Why a backup in Nextcloud? So that nothing is lost if the browser is cleared, and so that you can find your lists on another device. It is encrypted before it leaves: neither the relay, nor the tool's website, nor the ENT can read your students' names.
Keep in mind before you start
A QR code is enough to listen
Anyone who scans the QR code hears the memo. There is no sign-in and no personal code: that is what makes the tool simple for the student. Talk about the work, without any student's name and without anything personal. The precautions to take.
Next: your first steps.