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Choosing an AI Tool for Your School: A Checklist for Australian Leaders
Great Minds AI team · Last updated 12 November 2026
Questions to ask before a school uses an AI tool. This page is not an assessment of Great Minds AI.
The checklist
Where student data is hosted
A school should know which country holds student data.
Whether student data trains models
A school should know if student work is used to train a model.
Has it been through a recognised safety assessment, such as Safer Technologies 4 Schools (ST4S)?
Teacher visibility of sessions
A teacher should be able to see what a student did in a session.
Flagging and escalation
A concern needs a path to a teacher. The school’s own procedures still apply.
Australian Curriculum v9 alignment
A school should know which curriculum version a task is mapped to.
Sign-in and integration
A school should know how people sign in, and what else the tool connects to.
Retention and deletion
A school should know how long records are kept, and who decides.
Alignment with the Australian Framework
A school should ask how a tool sits against the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools. This checklist does not say that any tool meets it.
How Great Minds AI answers these
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.
Teachers can read every session.
A flag goes to the teacher’s queue and the school’s procedures apply.
Tasks map to Australian Curriculum Version 9 content descriptions. Great Minds AI is not endorsed by ACARA.
Teachers and students sign in with Google or Microsoft. No LMS integration yet. Integration via Wonde is planned.
Schools decide how long records are kept, and can ask us to delete them.
This page does not say that Great Minds AI meets the Framework.
For school leaders
Read what Great Minds AI is for, and what it is not, on the school leaders page.