AI Use Policy

Version 2026-10-25 · in effect from 25 October 2026

Some of Learn It With Me's tools use artificial intelligence (AI). Everyone reads and accepts this policy once before they can use them: before buying AI credits, uploading an essay, checking a transcript or a graph, or seeing and releasing AI marking. One acceptance opens every AI feature.

What the AI does

Essay Assessment uses AI (Anthropic's Claude models, through Amazon Bedrock) to read handwriting, describe graphs and diagrams, and suggest marks and feedback against the subject's mark scheme. It uses AI credits: A typed essay uses 1 credit, a handwritten one 2 (3 if it's over 6 pages). Each step shows what it uses before it starts.

Where it happens, and what's kept

AI processing takes place in Australia or New Zealand (Amazon Web Services' Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland regions). Nothing is sent to AI anywhere else.
Nothing you send is used to train AI, by us, Amazon or Anthropic.
Nothing is stored outside New Zealand, unless the law requires it. The AI service works on what it's sent and keeps none of it; your essays, transcripts and marking are kept on our servers in Auckland, as our privacy notice explains.

Keep personal information out

Whoever uploads or reviews work is responsible for making sure nothing that identifies a person is sent to the AI: no names, student numbers, email addresses, school names or anything else that says who someone is. Before an essay is read you can cover anything like that on its pages, and you check the transcript before it's marked. We also take out the names, emails and student numbers we know of, but that is a safety net, not a replacement for checking.

AI makes mistakes

AI can misread handwriting, misunderstand a graph, and give marks or feedback that are wrong, inconsistent or biased. Use it as a guide, not as a source of truth.
Final grading is a human activity, not an AI one. Teachers check and validate every grade before it's released to a student, and can change the marks. A grade a student sees on their own practice essay is an AI estimate, to learn from: it isn't a teacher's grade.
If something looks wrong, say so: every AI result can be rated or reported, and a teacher can have an essay marked again.

Schools, teachers and students

A school can switch AI essay assessment off for everyone in it, at any time.
Students: your teacher and school may have their own rules about using AI. Follow them, and don't present AI feedback as your own work.
Writing that suggests someone may be at risk is held for a person at the school to look at before anything else happens.

Our privacy notice, terms and data agreement

The AI parts of our privacy notice, terms and school data agreement take effect on 23 November 2026. When you accept this policy, they apply to you from then on, so you can use the AI before that date. At a school, its people can use the AI once one of the school's admins has accepted this policy (or from 23 November 2026), and the school's admins can still switch it off.

Changes and questions

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll ask you to accept it again before you next use an AI feature. Questions? Use the support page.