Real-time messaging
Text, photos, video, voice notes and files, with replies, edits, reactions and read receipts — the everyday shape of a chat kids and teachers already know.
Ratatosk for Schools
A classroom messenger your school actually controls.
Ratatosk is the real-time messenger already running across every Squirrel Wisdom app — chat, voice and video, on Android, iOS, Web, Windows and macOS. Brought to the classroom, with an optional AI assistant that only ever speaks when a teacher lets it.
- One messenger, every device
- Teachers decide who — and what — is in the chat
- The AI assistant never speaks unsupervised
Not a prototype
A messenger already carrying real conversations.
Ratatosk isn't a concept built for this pitch — it's the same chat, group and calling infrastructure already in daily use across the Squirrel Wisdom family, on Android, iOS, Web, Windows and macOS.
Voice & video calls
Built-in group calls for a quick check-in or a remote lesson, without sending anyone to a separate app.
Every device, one account
The same class chat follows a student or teacher from a school Chromebook to a phone at home — nothing to reinstall or resync.
Moderation that already exists
Admins (teachers) can edit or remove any message, block a sender, and rename or remove members — a class chat, not an open wire.
Controlled AI, by design
The assistant waits to be asked.
An AI assistant joins a class chat the exact same way a person would: a teacher adds it, by name, to that one chat — never silently, never everywhere at once.
Under the hood, the assistant doesn't watch the conversation and jump in on its own. Every message to it lands in a queue; something a school configures and supervises decides whether and how to answer, and that answer is the only thing that ever gets posted back. No reply step, no message — a school sets the pace, not the model.
Remove it and it's gone instantly, from that one chat, with no trace left behind for anyone still in the conversation.
What a school decides
Every control point stays with your staff.
None of this requires new infrastructure — it rides on the same account and chat system already running the rest of Squirrel Wisdom.
Which chats
The assistant exists only in the class or group chats it's explicitly added to — a school subject, a single project group, never the whole student body by default.
What it can say
The assistant's replies come from whatever a school connects to answer its queued questions — the school's own rules for tone, scope and subject matter apply, not a default open-ended chatbot.
When it's on
Pause it for a test, an exam period, or just because — one switch stops it from receiving anything new, with no effect on the human conversation around it.
Who's watching
Every message the assistant sends lands in the same chat log a teacher already sees — nothing happens in a private, unreviewable side-channel.
Curious about Ratatosk for your school?
Let's talk about what a supervised class chat and assistant could look like for your students.