Hello! In my educational game that I am making, I’ve read other topics and saw that asking a players age wasn’t allowed, so I though of a substitution, asking for the players grade. Is this allowed? It’s necessary for my game so I know what question to assign. If it’s not allowed, what are some substitutions you guys could think of?
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Assuming this game isn’t competitive, I would ask the player what grade or age level questions they want to be given instead of asking for their actual age. This way you won’t break the terms of service, but still achieve the same effect.
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So asking for a player’s grade is fine? It won’t break any rules?
Asking for any personally identifiable information is against ToS. What I am recommending is giving them the option to choose the level of questions instead of their age. As long as it doesn’t tie back to the player directly, it is fine.
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Ohh… so basically level 1 questions = grade 1 and so on?
Yes that’d work converting “Grades” to “Levels”. As long as you are not specifically asking for a user’s personal information, I believe that it should be fine. Good luck with your game! 
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Section 2, subsection 1 building your game
“You should not ask for a player’s…age…”
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I’m sure school grades aren’t personal info so it wouldn’t break ROBLOX Rules & Guidelines.
It is still good to ask ROBLOX Staff Members as it still can’t be the best course of action to do to avoid having a high chance of your game or account getting deleted temporarily or forever.
Maybe change grades to levels such as
Level 1:
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5 (Pro)
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8 (Master)
Level 9
Level 10
Level 11
Level 12 (Super Pro)
Level 13
Level 14
Level 15
Level 16 (Destructor of Rounds
Level 17
Level 18
Level 19
Level 20 (Semi-God)
Level 21
Level 22 - 25 (God)
Level 26
Level 27
Level 28 - 33 (Master God)
Level 34 - 50 (Angel)
Level 51 - 200 (Top of the Masters!)
Level 201 - 1,000 (Angel Master)
Level 1,001 - 60,000 (Your a Leaderboard Guy!)
Level 60,001 - 100,000,000 (Leaderboard God)
Level 100,000,001 - 5,000,000,000,000 (Leaderboard Angel)
Level 100 Octillion (Game True Master
Level 50 Decillion (Destroyer of The Game)
Level 1.7 Undecillion (Angel of The Game)
Level 100 Duodecillion (Angel of The Leaderboards)
Level 24 Tredecillion (Leaderboard Pro)
Level 150 Tredecillion (Highest of The Level Leaderboards!)
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Webkinz has a trivia corner that asks questions based on grade level, but it is entirely up to the player what grade of questions they want to answer each time they play. Every time you open the game (or finished a round of questions) you can pick a different level.
As long as your game doesn’t save what the player selected and they can return and select any other grade level at any time then it should be fine because they could pick anything, its their own preference. Word it as “What grade level do you want to work on?” not “what grade are you.” Plus you’d get players picking lower than their grade level to review or work on things they aren’t as good at and players who are above their grade level and can fly through the harder questions.
Combining this with labeling the grades as “levels” might also be a good idea.
It might get more complicated if other players can see what level everyone is working on though.
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My option would be to have a ‘calibration’ stage; test how the players would do on an even playing field. Then, using the result, tailor their gameplay.
PS: British schoolchildren are one year above North American students (Grade 6 in the US is equivalent to Year 7 in the UK).
Your grade is personally identifiable. Anything that can deanonymise and tie back to someone uniquely is PII. The term is literal.
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