Copyright FAQs

Answers to common questions about exam-board material, generated questions and intellectual property when using TeachEdge.

This page provides general information, not legal advice. Schools and users remain responsible for checking that they have permission to use material they submit to TeachEdge.

Does TeachEdge use copyrighted exam-board material in its built-in marking guidance?

TeachEdge’s marking instructions and rubrics are developed in-house using subject knowledge, assessment principles and the published structure of relevant qualifications.

They are configured for particular subjects, qualifications, exam boards and question types. This may include applying relevant assessment objectives, levels of response and marking criteria.

TeachEdge does not reproduce official exam-board mark schemes as its built-in marking guidance. TeachEdge is independent of, and is not endorsed, approved or licensed by, any examination board.

How can TeachEdge mark work without reproducing an official mark scheme?

TeachEdge uses its own marking instructions and rubrics, configured for the relevant subject, qualification, exam board and question type.

These instructions help the AI assess features such as:

knowledge and understanding;
application;
analysis;
evaluation;
reasoning;
use of evidence;
communication; and
subject-specific assessment objectives or criteria.

A teacher may also supply relevant supporting material or task instructions where the tool allows this.

TeachEdge’s marks and feedback are indicative. They are designed for practice, formative assessment and teacher-supported internal assessment, rather than official exam-board marking or final high-stakes grading.

Can I enter or upload an official past-paper question?

You may submit an official past-paper question only where you or your school have the necessary right or permission to use it in this way.

Past papers, specimen questions and other assessment materials may remain protected by copyright even when they are publicly available online. Public availability does not mean that material is in the public domain or free from restrictions.

Schools should check the relevant exam board’s copyright terms and any licence applying to their use of the material.

Secure, confidential or unreleased examination material must not be uploaded unless you have clear authority to do so.

Under the TeachEdge Terms and Conditions, users are responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights to submit third-party material.

Can I upload a mark scheme or other supporting material?

Only if you or your school are entitled to use and upload it.

A mark scheme, textbook extract, article, image, source or other supporting resource may be protected by copyright. You should check the relevant licence or permission before submitting it.

Where supporting material is supplied, TeachEdge may process it to complete the requested task. Uploading it does not transfer ownership to TeachEdge.

What about an adapted exam question?

Changing a few words does not necessarily create a new, independent question.

If important wording, structure, data, sources or other distinctive elements remain recognisable from an original examination question, the adapted version may still use a substantial part of the protected work.

Whether a particular adaptation is permitted depends on the material, the extent of the changes, the applicable licence and copyright law.

If you are unsure, create a substantially new question or use the TeachEdge Question Generator and review its output carefully.

Does the Question Generator produce original questions?

The Question Generator is designed to create new practice questions from a teacher’s instructions, curriculum topics and TeachEdge’s own guidance.

However, AI-generated material cannot be guaranteed to be unique or free from similarity to existing material. Similar questions may also be independently generated for different users.

Teachers should review generated questions before using or publishing them. This is particularly important where a question contains distinctive wording, data, case-study material, quotations or images.

Can I use questions produced by the Question Generator outside TeachEdge?

Yes, subject to applicable law and third-party rights, users may use generated questions for their own educational purposes inside or outside TeachEdge.

Before wider publication or commercial use, you should review the question carefully and check that it does not reproduce protected material or require additional permission.

TeachEdge does not guarantee that an AI-generated question will qualify for copyright protection or be completely unique.

Does TeachEdge train AI models using submitted exam-board material or student work?

No. TeachEdge does not use submitted questions, exam-board material or student work to train third-party generative AI models.

TeachEdge uses commercial AI-provider APIs. Under the commercial arrangements used by TeachEdge, API inputs and outputs are not used to train the providers’ general-purpose models by default. TeachEdge has not opted into provider model training.

Comments, corrections and suggested changes deliberately submitted through the “Improve the Marking & Feedback” feature may be used internally to improve TeachEdge’s marking instructions, rubrics, quality checks and feedback design. This is improvement of the TeachEdge service and does not permit OpenAI, Anthropic or another provider to use the material to train its general-purpose models.

TeachEdge may create carefully anonymised samples for internal debugging, quality control, safety checks and improving the performance of the TeachEdge service. These samples are not used to identify individual users and are not supplied for third-party model training. Schools and users may object to this internal use by contacting info@teachedge.ai.

More information is available in the TeachEdge Privacy Notice.

Were the underlying AI models trained on copyrighted material?

TeachEdge does not build or train the underlying general-purpose AI models used by the Service.

Those models are developed by third-party AI providers using their own training data and processes. TeachEdge cannot state that an underlying model has never been trained on copyrighted or publicly available material.

This is different from the information submitted through TeachEdge’s commercial API requests. TeachEdge has not opted to allow those submissions to be used for provider model training.

Who owns material uploaded to TeachEdge?

Users and schools keep any ownership rights they already hold in their original material.

Uploading material to TeachEdge does not transfer its ownership to Teach Edge Software Ltd. Users give TeachEdge only the limited rights needed to host and process the material, provide the requested service, maintain security and fulfil the purposes explained in the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice.

A user cannot give TeachEdge ownership or permission that the user does not possess. Rights belonging to an examination board, publisher, author, student or another third party remain with that rights holder.

Who owns material generated by TeachEdge?

TeachEdge does not claim ownership of a user’s original Submitted Content or of educational materials that the user creates from TeachEdge feedback and Outputs.

Whether an AI-generated Output qualifies for copyright protection depends on the circumstances and applicable law. TeachEdge does not guarantee that an Output is unique or that copyright will arise in it.

Similar Outputs may be generated for other users.

Is TeachEdge affiliated with examination boards?

No. TeachEdge is independent of, and is not endorsed, approved or licensed by, AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR or any other examination board.

Exam-board and qualification names are used only to identify the curriculum, assessment structure or question type that a TeachEdge tool is intended to support.

TeachEdge Outputs are not official exam-board marks or feedback.

What should I do if I believe material on TeachEdge infringes copyright?

Email copyright@teachedge.ai and provide:

your name and contact details;
details of the protected work;
a description of the material you believe infringes it;
enough information to locate the material, such as a URL or screenshot;
an explanation of why you believe the use is not authorised; and
confirmation that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them.

TeachEdge may restrict or remove access to material while a complaint is investigated. Where appropriate, we may notify the person who submitted it and allow them to respond.

Still have questions?

For questions about copyright or intellectual property, email copyright@teachedge.ai or use our Contact page.

Please also read the TeachEdge Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice.

Required link verification

After implementing the four pages, verify every link individually.

Confirm that:

1. Every `Privacy Notice` and `full Privacy Notice` link opens `/privacy`. 2. Every `Child-Friendly Privacy Notice` link opens `/privacy-children`. 3. Every `Terms and Conditions` link opens `/terms`. 4. `TeachEdge credit guide` opens `/help/how-teachedge-credits-are-calculated`. 5. `Contact page` opens `/contact`. 6. Every `info@teachedge.ai` link uses `mailto:info@teachedge.ai`. 7. Every `copyright@teachedge.ai` link uses `mailto:copyright@teachedge.ai`. 8. `Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on` opens `https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout`. 9. Both ICO complaint links open `https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/`. 10. No link has an empty `href`. 11. No content link uses `href="#"`. 12. No internal link points to a newly invented or duplicate route. 13. External links open in a new tab with `rel="noopener noreferrer"`. 14. Internal links open in the same tab.

Final page verification

Verify all four routes at desktop and mobile widths.

Confirm that:

each route loads successfully;
each page contains exactly one `h1`;
heading levels are correctly nested;
all numbered section headings are present and sequential;
all bullet lists render correctly;
bold and italic text render correctly;
no content is clipped or horizontally scrollable;
the shared header and footer remain intact;
there are no duplicate content sections;
no old page-body text remains;
no implementation instructions appear on any page;
no “Final checks” section appears on any page;
no console errors were introduced; and
no other marketing pages were changed.

Do not display this verification list on the website. It is an implementation checklist only.

Copyright FAQs

Answers to common questions about exam-board material, generated questions and intellectual property when using TeachEdge.

This page provides general information, not legal advice. Schools and users remain responsible for checking that they have permission to use material they submit to TeachEdge.

Does TeachEdge use copyrighted exam-board material in its built-in marking guidance?

TeachEdge’s marking instructions and rubrics are developed in-house using subject knowledge, assessment principles and the published structure of relevant qualifications.

They are configured for particular subjects, qualifications, exam boards and question types. This may include applying relevant assessment objectives, levels of response and marking criteria.

TeachEdge does not reproduce official exam-board mark schemes as its built-in marking guidance. TeachEdge is independent of, and is not endorsed, approved or licensed by, any examination board.

How can TeachEdge mark work without reproducing an official mark scheme?

TeachEdge uses its own marking instructions and rubrics, configured for the relevant subject, qualification, exam board and question type.

These instructions help the AI assess features such as:

knowledge and understanding;
application;
analysis;
evaluation;
reasoning;
use of evidence;
communication; and
subject-specific assessment objectives or criteria.

A teacher may also supply relevant supporting material or task instructions where the tool allows this.

Can I enter or upload an official past-paper question?

You may submit an official past-paper question only where you or your school have the necessary right or permission to use it in this way.

Schools should check the relevant exam board’s copyright terms and any licence applying to their use of the material.

Secure, confidential or unreleased examination material must not be uploaded unless you have clear authority to do so.

Under the TeachEdge Terms and Conditions, users are responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights to submit third-party material.

Can I upload a mark scheme or other supporting material?

Only if you or your school are entitled to use and upload it.

A mark scheme, textbook extract, article, image, source or other supporting resource may be protected by copyright. You should check the relevant licence or permission before submitting it.

Where supporting material is supplied, TeachEdge may process it to complete the requested task. Uploading it does not transfer ownership to TeachEdge.

What about an adapted exam question?

Changing a few words does not necessarily create a new, independent question.

Whether a particular adaptation is permitted depends on the material, the extent of the changes, the applicable licence and copyright law.

If you are unsure, create a substantially new question or use the TeachEdge Question Generator and review its output carefully.

Does the Question Generator produce original questions?

The Question Generator is designed to create new practice questions from a teacher’s instructions, curriculum topics and TeachEdge’s own guidance.

However, AI-generated material cannot be guaranteed to be unique or free from similarity to existing material. Similar questions may also be independently generated for different users.

Can I use questions produced by the Question Generator outside TeachEdge?

Yes, subject to applicable law and third-party rights, users may use generated questions for their own educational purposes inside or outside TeachEdge.

Before wider publication or commercial use, you should review the question carefully and check that it does not reproduce protected material or require additional permission.

TeachEdge does not guarantee that an AI-generated question will qualify for copyright protection or be completely unique.

Does TeachEdge train AI models using submitted exam-board material or student work?

No. TeachEdge does not use submitted questions, exam-board material or student work to train third-party generative AI models.

More information is available in the TeachEdge Privacy Notice.

Were the underlying AI models trained on copyrighted material?

TeachEdge does not build or train the underlying general-purpose AI models used by the Service.

This is different from the information submitted through TeachEdge’s commercial API requests. TeachEdge has not opted to allow those submissions to be used for provider model training.

Who owns material uploaded to TeachEdge?

Users and schools keep any ownership rights they already hold in their original material.

Who owns material generated by TeachEdge?

TeachEdge does not claim ownership of a user’s original Submitted Content or of educational materials that the user creates from TeachEdge feedback and Outputs.

Similar Outputs may be generated for other users.

Is TeachEdge affiliated with examination boards?

No. TeachEdge is independent of, and is not endorsed, approved or licensed by, AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR or any other examination board.

Exam-board and qualification names are used only to identify the curriculum, assessment structure or question type that a TeachEdge tool is intended to support.

TeachEdge Outputs are not official exam-board marks or feedback.

What should I do if I believe material on TeachEdge infringes copyright?

Email copyright@teachedge.ai and provide:

your name and contact details;
details of the protected work;
a description of the material you believe infringes it;
enough information to locate the material, such as a URL or screenshot;
an explanation of why you believe the use is not authorised; and
confirmation that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them.

TeachEdge may restrict or remove access to material while a complaint is investigated. Where appropriate, we may notify the person who submitted it and allow them to respond.

Still have questions?

For questions about copyright or intellectual property, email copyright@teachedge.ai or use our Contact page.

Please also read the TeachEdge Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice.

Required link verification

After implementing the four pages, verify every link individually.

Confirm that:

Final page verification

Verify all four routes at desktop and mobile widths.

Confirm that:

each route loads successfully;
each page contains exactly one `h1`;
heading levels are correctly nested;
all numbered section headings are present and sequential;
all bullet lists render correctly;
bold and italic text render correctly;
no content is clipped or horizontally scrollable;
the shared header and footer remain intact;
there are no duplicate content sections;
no old page-body text remains;
no implementation instructions appear on any page;
no “Final checks” section appears on any page;
no console errors were introduced; and
no other marketing pages were changed.

Do not display this verification list on the website. It is an implementation checklist only.