Great Minds AIQuestions
Answers to the questions schools ask most often.
Pilot
Does it cost anything?
We’re onboarding three to five founding schools.
Founding schools receive ten weeks of complimentary access, then preferential early-adopter pricing. After that, the programme is an annual base school fee plus a per-student subscription. Exact figures are agreed with each school.
That includes access for the agreed students and classes.
Founding schools get onboarding support from the team during the pilot.
Feedback and testimonials form part of the founding-school agreement.
How long is the pilot?
Ten weeks.
How do we start?
Apply for the founding schools pilot. We’ll be in touch.
Which schools use it?
We’ll name schools only with their agreement.
Safety and data
Is it safe, age-appropriate and tested?
The learning buddy is built on Microsoft Foundry guardrails and controls.
It is designed to stay on the curriculum focus the teacher sets. Teachers see every session.
A flag goes to the teacher’s queue and the school’s procedures apply.
The pilot is how we test it with real classes, with teachers in control.
How is student information collected, stored and protected?
Website and pilot forms collect staff contact details only.
Student data is collected only through the product, by and for the school.
Student data is hosted in Australia, on Microsoft Azure. Student data stays in Australia.
Student data and prompts are never used to train AI models.
Access is role-based: only permitted staff can view student data.
Schools decide how long records are kept, and can ask us to delete them.
Where is student data stored?
Student data is hosted in Australia, on Microsoft Azure. Student data stays in Australia.
What happens when something concerning comes up?
A flag goes to the teacher’s queue and the school’s procedures apply.
Is student data used to train AI?
Student data and prompts are never used to train AI models.
Do we need parent consent?
Follow your school or system’s policy.
Classroom use
Is this a chatbot?
No. It is a classroom system. The teacher sets the focus and sees every session.
Can teachers see what students type?
Yes. Teachers can read the session.
How is student progress monitored?
Teachers see class mastery, full session transcripts and quizzes.
The learning buddy keeps conversation history, prompt history, safety flags and notes about the student, so it builds on what each student needs.
How does it complement teaching?
The teacher sets the focus and stays in control.
Tasks map to Australian Curriculum Version 9 content descriptions.
Schools use a range of approaches, from explicit teaching to inquiry-based learning. Great Minds AI is not on one side or the other. It is there to strengthen teaching: better instruction, more personalised support and greater student independence.
Great Minds AI is not endorsed by ACARA.
What about teacher workload?
You still teach. The learning buddy keeps the rest of the class learning on the focus you set, so you can step in where it matters.
What support do schools get?
Founding schools get onboarding support from the team during the pilot.
What devices do we need?
It runs in a web browser.
Curriculum
Which version of the Australian Curriculum?
Tasks map to Australian Curriculum Version 9 content descriptions.
Great Minds AI is not endorsed by ACARA.
Read how the curriculum focus is set on the curriculum page.
Which subjects and year levels?
Over time, the product is being built to support students from Year 3 to Year 12.
Our founding pilot focuses on Year 3 Mathematics, with more subjects and year levels to follow.