Know what happens to student data before you upload it
Families hand independent educational consultants some of the most sensitive documents a teenager has: essays, transcripts, test scores, sometimes disability and financial information. This site is a free, vendor-neutral toolkit for checking what any platform will do with that data, written for consultants, not lawyers.
Two tools
- The Checklist: nine questions to ask before you upload student data to any platform. Printable, one page, made for vendor demos.
- The Prompt Pack: copy-paste prompts that turn a free AI account into an adversarial first reader of any privacy policy.
Plain-language explainers
- What "de-identified" student data actually means
- "We never sell your data": it depends what "sell" means
- The bankruptcy clause: student data when a platform is acquired or folds
- AI training clauses: is your students' writing training someone's model?
- Does FERPA protect your students' data? For IECs, mostly no
- What SOC 2 does and does not tell you
- "Delete" versus "de-identify and retain"
- If the platform is free, what is the business model?
- Aggregate insights and the small-group problem