Support your student’s future with safe, structured mentorship.
Help your student connect with verified mentors — with guardian approval for ages 12 to 18.
- Mentor profiles are verified
- Guardian approval for ages 12–18
- Free for students
- Safety-first — report tools built in
Why guardians matter
Guardians help students turn guidance into safe action.
Students often need help making sense of academic choices, career pathways, scholarships, applications, technical or vocational routes, and future opportunities. A mentor can help a student ask better questions and understand possible next steps, but guardians remain important partners in the process.
Your role is not only to approve access. You can help your student prepare for mentoring sessions, reflect on advice, compare options, protect their privacy, and make decisions that fit their context, values, and responsibilities.
When guardians, students, mentors, and the platform work together, mentorship becomes safer, clearer, and more useful.
What is eStudent360?
A free platform for mentorship, pathways, and student guidance.
eStudent360 is a free student mentorship platform built by FacioTech Foundation, running in Ghana and Canada. It connects students with verified mentors, learning pathways, practical resources, events, and moderated Q&A.
Mentors provide guidance, encouragement, and practical insight. They do not replace parents, guardians, teachers, school counsellors, professional advisers, or official institutions.
Students can use eStudent360 to:
- Explore academic and career pathways
- Browse resources and checklists
- Ask a general question through Ask a Mentor, without sharing private details
- Connect with mentors where eligible
- Prepare for scholarships, applications, interviews, and career decisions
- Learn from people with academic, professional, technical, vocational, or lived experience
How eStudent360 supports students
What a student actually gets here.
Career and pathway guidance
Students can explore fields, compare options, and ask mentors what different academic or career routes involve.
Better questions, better preparation
Pathways and resources help students prepare before they meet a mentor, so sessions become more focused and useful.
Access to real experience
Students can learn from people who have navigated school, university, technical training, work, scholarships, or professional life.
Confidence and motivation
A supportive mentor can help a student see possibilities, build confidence, and take practical next steps.
Safer structured support
Reviewed profiles, guardian approval for minors, reporting tools, moderation, and platform guidance support safer mentoring.
Free student support
The platform is designed to expand access to mentorship without asking students to pay mentors for general guidance.
Guardian approval
Guardian approval is required for students aged 12 to 18.
Students must be at least 12 years old to use eStudent360. A student aged 12 to 18 cannot book a session or start one-on-one mentoring until their guardian has approved it.
That way an adult always knows the student is here and can keep an eye on the mentoring.
Not every guardian tool described here is finished. Where one is still being built, we will tell you what to do instead — ask us and we will explain the current process.
What guardian approval may include:
- Confirming the student’s age and relationship to the guardian
- Reviewing the student’s mentoring request
- Approving participation in mentoring features
- Receiving notifications about mentoring activity
- Seeing which mentors your student is connected to, and when sessions are booked
- Withdrawing consent if needed
- Reporting concerns to the eStudent360 team
What a guardian does
How guardians can support students.
- Review the student’s goals before they request a mentor
- Help the student choose appropriate mentoring topics
- Encourage the student to use pathways and resources first
- Discuss online safety and privacy
- Check when a session is and who the mentor is
- Check in after mentoring sessions
- Help the student decide which advice applies to their situation
- Report any unsafe or uncomfortable interaction
- Withdraw consent if participation no longer feels appropriate
Safety and trust
What we do to keep it safe.
We review mentors before they meet students, require guardian approval for under-18s, keep mentoring structured, moderate messages, give everyone a way to report, and have trained people read what gets reported.
No online platform can remove every risk. That is why eStudent360 combines platform safeguards with clear guidance for students, guardians, mentors, and administrators.
Safety features
- Reviewed mentor profiles
- Guardian approval for students aged 12 to 18
- Mentoring conversations stay on the platform, where they can be moderated
- Reporting tools
- Moderation and human review
- Mentor and Student Codes of Conduct
- Safety guidance for users
- Account restrictions or suspension where needed
Mentor boundaries
Mentors guide students. They do not make decisions for them.
Mentors can help students understand options, ask better questions, prepare for opportunities, and learn from experience. They should not pressure students, guarantee outcomes, or ask students to talk anywhere outside eStudent360.
Mentors may help with
- Understanding a career field
- Comparing academic pathways
- Exploring scholarships and applications
- Preparing questions for schools or institutions
- Building confidence
- Thinking through subject choices
- Preparing for interviews
- Finding useful resources
- Creating a practical action plan
Mentors must not
- Ask students for money, gifts, airtime, mobile money, or private fees
- Guarantee scholarships, jobs, admissions, visas, or opportunities
- Request passwords, private documents, ID documents, bank details, or sensitive family information
- Pressure students to communicate secretly or off-platform
- Replace guardians, teachers, counsellors, legal advisers, medical professionals, or official institutions
- Make inappropriate comments or requests
Prepare for mentorship
A good mentoring session starts before the meeting.
Before a student meets or messages a mentor, guardians can help them prepare. This makes the mentoring experience more focused, respectful, and useful.
Example student question
“I am interested in nursing and public health, but I do not understand the difference between them. Can you help me compare the training, daily work, and possible career routes?”
Encourage the student to write down:
- 1What decision they are trying to make
- 2What they already know
- 3What they are confused about
- 4What they want the mentor to explain
- 5Any deadlines they are facing
- 6What action they hope to take after the session
Every family is different. Every student still needs someone in their corner.
Online safety checklist
Before your student uses eStudent360, discuss these safety rules.
Students should not share
- Passwords
- Phone numbers in public areas
- Home address
- School address if not required
- Bank details
- Mobile money details
- Identity documents
- Private family information
- Medical records
- Immigration documents
- Photos or videos that feel uncomfortable
- Personal social media accounts
- Private contact details
Tell a guardian or report a concern if someone:
- Asks for money
- Asks to move to private WhatsApp, email, phone, or social media
- Makes inappropriate comments
- Pressures them to keep secrets
- Promises guaranteed scholarships, jobs, visas, or admissions
- Requests documents that do not seem necessary
- Makes them feel unsafe, confused, uncomfortable, or pressured
How it works
How guardian support works.
- Step 1
Student creates an account
The student signs up and selects their role as a student.
- Step 2
Guardian approval is requested
A student aged 12 to 18 cannot book a session or start mentoring until their guardian has approved it.
- Step 3
Guardian reviews the request
The guardian reviews the student’s participation request and the platform’s safety expectations.
- Step 4
Student explores pathways and resources
While they wait, the student can read the pathways, the resources and the published Ask a Mentor answers.
- Step 5
Mentoring starts
Once you have approved it, the student can ask a mentor for help, join sessions and message mentors here.
- Step 6
Guardian stays involved
You can see what is happening, talk to your student about it, and report anything that worries you.
Privacy and data
Student privacy matters.
eStudent360 collects only the information needed to operate accounts, support mentoring, improve safety, and provide platform services. Guardians and students should avoid sharing sensitive information unless it is necessary for a specific approved platform feature.
Students should not post private documents, passwords, personal contact information, financial information, medical information, or emergency issues in public questions.
For full details, guardians should review the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Reporting and urgent concerns
If something feels wrong, report it.
Guardians and students should report any behaviour that feels unsafe, inappropriate, misleading, exploitative, or uncomfortable. This includes payment requests, off-platform pressure, inappropriate messages, harassment, discrimination, false mentor claims, grooming concerns, or requests for private information.
In an emergency
If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services or a trusted local authority first. Platform reporting should not replace emergency help.
After urgent help is contacted, report the platform concern so eStudent360 can review the account, profile, message, or session involved.
Guardian FAQ
Questions guardians often ask
Is eStudent360 free?
Yes. eStudent360 is designed as a free student mentorship platform. Students should not be asked to pay mentors for general mentoring, matching, scholarship guidance, or platform access. If anyone asks for money or private payment, report the concern.
What age can students join?
Students must be at least 12 years old. Students aged 12 to 18 require guardian approval before full mentoring participation.
Why is guardian approval required?
Guardian approval helps ensure that a responsible adult knows the student is using the platform and can support safe participation, especially for mentoring sessions and interactions with mentors.
Can I see who my student is connected with?
Where the guardian dashboard is available, you can see which mentors your student is connected to, when their sessions are, and the notifications that go with them. Where a part of it is not ready yet, ask us and we will tell you exactly what to do instead.
Can I withdraw consent?
Yes. Guardians should be able to withdraw consent if they no longer want a student under 18 to take part in mentoring, and eStudent360 should give them a clear way to do it.
Are mentors verified?
We review a mentor profile before that mentor can work with students. Mentoring one student on their own over a long period carries more risk, so it should require stronger checks before we allow it.
Can mentors contact my child outside the platform?
A mentor must not push a student to talk anywhere outside eStudent360. If a mentor asks your student to move to WhatsApp, a phone number, personal email, social media or any private chat, report it.
Can a mentor guarantee scholarships, admission, jobs, or visas?
No. Mentors can help students prepare, understand requirements, and ask better questions, but they should not guarantee scholarships, admissions, jobs, visas, interviews, or other outcomes.
What should my student never share?
Students should not share passwords, home addresses, private phone numbers, bank details, mobile money details, identity documents, medical records, immigration documents, or sensitive family information in public questions or unsafe channels.
What should I do if I have a concern?
Use the Report a Concern flow for platform-related concerns. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services or a trusted local authority first.
Help your student access guidance safely.
With the right support, students can ask better questions, understand their options, and take practical steps toward their future. eStudent360 gives guardians a safer way to support that journey.
Review the safety guidelines and help your student make the most of mentorship.