DIDE
DIDE is a Spanish education platform that profiles pupils aged 2 to 16 across 43 developmental indicators, using questionnaires answered by families and teachers rather than the child, then returns reports and classroom resources.
What is DIDE?
DIDE is a pedagogical observation platform built for Spanish-speaking schools, and its defining choice is that the child never takes part. Instead of testing the pupil, it collects structured observations from the adults around them, parents, teachers, grandparents and carers, through online questionnaires, then turns those answers into a profile.
The tool is organised around three blocks. RADAR is the tutor's instrument: contextualised observation of a pupil across up to 43 indicators, grouped into three areas, 14 for education and learning, 17 for development and social life, and 12 for emotion and behaviour. They run from articulation and pronunciation, memory, attention and reading acquisition through to fine motor skills, hearing, vision, bullying, cyberbullying, technology overuse, anxiety, self-esteem and frustration tolerance. ACADEMIA is the resource library, with more than 5,700 guidelines, activities and recommendations available in 20 languages, plus training videos for staff. Vision Directiva is the leadership layer: diversity maps by stage, year, gender and classroom, aggregated school statistics and year-on-year trend tracking.
A study covers pupils aged 2 to 16 and can involve up to eight people around the child. Once the questionnaires are complete, the platform generates the profile immediately, together with reports covering the overall result, a question-by-question breakdown, comments, classroom recommendations and improvement resources, differentiated for teachers and families and adapted to seven age bands.
DIDE is emphatic about its limits. It contextualises, prioritises and accompanies but does not diagnose or label, and any diagnosis remains the responsibility of specialists. Artificial intelligence plays a narrow and disclosed role: the suggested observation profiles for classroom situations were drafted with AI support and are presented as indicative only, with the final choice of indicators left to the tutor and the guidance team.
The platform serves schools, teachers, families, education authorities, private practices and universities. Its principal shareholder is Emooti, a mental health and wellbeing institute, and it works with Anaya on the Henko Emocional and Henko Orientacion programmes. The site claims more than 25,000 children reached, and displays ENS certification, a Horizon 2020 Seal of Excellence, inclusion in Spain's PROA+ programme and a Google for Education partnership in Spain.
What it does
- Profile a pupil in minutes from the observations of the people who know them best
- Observe up to 43 indicators across learning, development, emotion and behaviour
- Generate result reports and improvement resources automatically
- Prioritise which cases should be escalated to the guidance team
- Hand teachers and families separate, age-adapted guidance for the classroom and the home
- Map diversity across a class, a year group or an entire school
- Prepare a first psychopedagogical appointment with prior screening
When to use DIDE / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if DIDE is the right fit.
When to use DIDE
- Class tutors who need a picture of every pupil from day one, without waiting for a referral
- School guidance teams that have to triage and prioritise cases across a whole intake
- Head teachers and leadership teams looking for aggregated diversity data on their student body
- Parents who want to understand a child's strengths and needs without putting them through a test
- Psychopedagogy practices that want a structured screening in place before the first appointment
When not to use DIDE
- Anyone looking for a clinical diagnosis, since DIDE explicitly stops short of diagnosing or labelling
- Practitioners who need the child to sit the assessment directly, because the minor never answers anything
- Settings working with learners outside the 2 to 16 age range
- Teams that need an API, a mobile app or connectors into an existing school information system
- Buyers who require a published institutional price list before opening a conversation
How to use DIDE
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account on app.dide.org, or sign in through the ACCESO button on the website
- Families buy a study directly; schools work from a licence contracted by the leadership team
- Create a study for the child or pupil concerned
- Select the indicators to observe, guided by the age selector and the situation-based observation profiles
- Complete your own questionnaire, which takes around thirty minutes in the family version
- Invite up to seven other people who know the child, for a maximum of eight viewpoints
- Watch the profile build in real time as the questionnaires come back
- Read the result reports on screen, then download or print them
- Work through the improvement resources, using the teacher set in class and the family set at home
- In a school, let the guidance team triage the results and the leadership team read the aggregated data
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The child is never tested, which removes the intrusiveness of a direct assessment
- Results arrive within minutes of the questionnaires being completed
- Reports do not stop at the finding: they carry practical, age-adapted guidance for class and home
- Class tutors can act on their own, without waiting for a referral or a specialist slot
- Serious security posture for children's records: ENS Medium certification, Spanish hosting with an ENS High provider, TLS 1.3 in transit and AES at rest
- Anonymisation and pseudonymisation are configurable by each school rather than imposed
- Backed by public programmes: PROA+, a Horizon 2020 Seal of Excellence and Agenda 2030 validation
Cons
- The site publishes four different prices for the same individual study, from 29 EUR to 55 EUR, depending on which page you land on
- Several product pages are visibly out of date, still citing 35 indicators and a 3 to 16 age range against the homepage's 43 and 2 to 16
- The family page still claims hosting on Google's servers, which the security page and privacy policy contradict
- No institutional pricing is published: schools, practices and authorities all go through a quote
- No API, no mobile app and no documented third-party integration
- No permanent free plan and no announced free trial
- The artificial intelligence contribution is documented by a single sentence about how the suggested observation profiles were drafted
Pricing & Plans
Access to the website is free of charge, while use of the platform is not: the purchase conditions state expressly that platform use is chargeable. There is no permanent free plan and no free trial is announced. The lowest published price point is 29 EUR including VAT for a single family study, which covers up to eight participants and the associated improvement resources. Schools, private practices and public authorities are quoted individually and no institutional rate is published. Prospective buyers should note that several older pages of the site still display superseded amounts for the same individual study.
- 29 EUR including VAT for one study
- up to eight participants
- improvement resources included
- services for the whole school
- usage licences
- staff training and support across the year
- with the fee scaled to the size of the school and special conditions for state schools and disadvantaged contexts
- price on quotation
- a trial with a small group
- no minimum commitment
- deducted from the full subscription if the school continues
- price on quotation
- Framework agreements for public authorities
- consortia and regional governments
- with volume-tiered rates
- price on quotation
- Individual studies bought one at a time
- presented as the alternative to the unlimited annual flat rate
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how DIDE handles your data.
GDPR overview
Compliance is claimed explicitly and in concrete terms. DIDE names Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Spanish LOPDGDD, designates a data protection officer at delegado.datos@dide.app, and routes access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction, portability and automated-decision rights through proteccion.datos@dide.app or its Madrid address. Complaints are directed to the Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos. Users under 16 cannot use the service or provide data without a parent, guardian or legal representative, while the cookie banner separately sets 14 as the threshold for browsing the site. For platform data DIDE positions itself as a processor under a signed processing agreement, committing to confidentiality, assistance to the controller and cooperation with audits and inspections. No Article 27 representative is named, and none is required: the company is established in Spain. A coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy is also published.
Who owns the data?
Ownership splits in two. For the website and its forms, DIDE.ORG EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY S.L. is the data controller, reachable at info@dide.app, with a designated data protection officer at delegado.datos@dide.app. For everything held inside the platform, DIDE declares itself a processor only: the contracting school, private practice or family is the controller and decides the purposes, while DIDE acts on instructions and does not decide how the child's data is used. The reports themselves belong to whoever commissioned the study. Access is limited to that person and to anyone they explicitly authorise, and the site states that nobody else can reach the information.
Reuse rights
Customers keep control of what they generate. Reports can be read on screen, downloaded, printed and shared with families or colleagues at the school's discretion, and each school sets its own level of anonymisation or pseudonymisation, choosing whether reports are anonymous or named. In the other direction, the site is explicit that its own published content is not a public source: personal data, images and texts published on dide.org may not be reused, copied into other files, added to databases or passed to third parties without the consent of the person concerned. DIDE itself keeps only fully anonymised information, without names, schools or locations, for research, continuous product improvement and aggregate statistics, and states that it supplies anonymised data to university research projects. Recipients of customer data are limited to public authorities where the law requires it, banking and financial providers for payment, and processors bound by a processing agreement, such as its hosting supplier. Whether customer data is used to train AI models is not addressed anywhere on the site.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
DIDE's systems are hosted in Spain, at Occentus Network's facilities in Valencia, which places the data squarely under Spanish and European Union jurisdiction. The provider holds ENS High certification along with ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 22301 and ISO 20000-1, while DIDE itself is certified ENS Medium, with the certificate and the 2025 certification statement published as PDFs. Data is encrypted with TLS 1.3 in transit and AES at rest, access requires multi-factor authentication, and the data centre provides round-the-clock monitoring, environmental control and power redundancy. Vulnerabilities are monitored continuously by Edgewatch, a CNA designated by Spain's INCIBE. The hosting subprocessor is named in full in the privacy policy, with its address in Paterna, Valencia. Two caveats apply: an older family-facing page still states that data is stored on Google's servers, which the security page and the privacy policy contradict, and the cookie banner separately notes that consenting to third-party cookies authorises international transfers to the United States, a browsing matter distinct from where study data is held.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting DIDE.
- Profiling children creates a record that can follow them: a label the tool refuses to apply can still be inferred by the adults reading the reports
- Observations come from adults, not the child, so the profile carries their blind spots, anxieties and expectations as much as the pupil's reality
- Fast automated reports can tempt a tutor to act on a screening as if it were an assessment, which is precisely what the tool says not to do
- The site's own pages disagree on price, indicator count and hosting location, so commercial and technical claims should be confirmed before signing
- DIDE acts as a processor, so responsibility for how children's data is handled, and for how much anonymisation is applied, sits with the school, which may not exercise it
- The security page and the privacy guide give opposite accounts of what happens to the data when the service ends
- The privacy policy names an unrelated entity, GRUPO VS, as having subcontracted the hosting, a drafting residue that leaves the contractual chain unclear
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low. DIDE is a web platform with nothing to install and no integration to configure. A family creates an account, buys a study, selects the indicators, completes a questionnaire of roughly thirty minutes and invites others by email. Schools have it easier still: DIDE builds and launches the environment, trains the teaching staff and provides support from a psychologist through the contract year. Universities receive dedicated courses so their own lecturers can teach the tool to students. The only technical requirement on the user side is multi-factor authentication at sign-in.
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Behind DIDE
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Frequently asked questions
Does the child have to take a test?
Does DIDE diagnose or label pupils?
How many indicators does it cover, and for which ages?
How long do results take?
How much does it cost?
Who can see the reports?
Where is the data hosted?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Which languages are supported?
Is there a minimum age for users?
Should you pick DIDE?
DIDE occupies a specific slot in the Spanish education system rather than the general edtech market. It is a school-level instrument for managing educational diversity, endorsed through the Ministry's PROA+ programme, an ENS security certification, a Horizon 2020 Seal of Excellence and a Google for Education partnership in Spain.
Its distinctive move is methodological: the profile is built around the child rather than from the child. Nobody sits a test. That makes DIDE unusually easy to deploy with young pupils and with families who would resist a formal assessment, and it is consistent with the tool's refusal to diagnose. What it delivers instead is a structured reading of 43 indicators, priorities for the guidance team, and practical material that reaches both the classroom and the home.
The security and data protection posture is stronger than the norm for a company of this size, which matters when the records concern children: Spanish hosting with an ENS High provider, encryption in transit and at rest, configurable pseudonymisation and an openly assumed processor role backed by a published privacy guide.
The main reservation is not about the product but about the site that presents it. Pages written at different times contradict one another on price, on the number of indicators and even on where the data lives, and only the homepage carries the current figures. Anyone evaluating DIDE should confirm the commercial terms directly rather than trust a product page.
Expectations should also be calibrated: this is an observation and reporting instrument, not an AI product. The only disclosed use of artificial intelligence is the drafting of the suggested indicator sets, described as indicative. Judged as what it claims to be, a way for a tutor to know a whole class quickly, DIDE is coherent and unusually well documented.
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