HiGPT Teacher Terms of Use

1. Role of Teacher Accounts

Role of teachers.

2. Scope of Access to Student Data

Teachers may view student data only within the scope necessary for their assigned classes, students, assignments, or discussion groups.

3. Explanation to Students and Presentation of Terms

HiGPT may omit forced click-through consent from students to simplify classroom login. Even when forced student consent is omitted, teachers must explain or distribute the Student Terms, Privacy Policy, and student-facing notice before use, or instruct students to review them through a service link, handout, LMS post, or other reasonable method.

4. Teacher’s Explanation Responsibilities

Teachers must explain that student inputs, AI conversations, posts, attachments, assignment activity, and operation logs may be recorded and viewed by teachers/admins. Teachers must explain that group posts may be visible to other students in the same group. Teachers must explain that data may be sent to OpenAI, Microsoft, Azure, AWS, and other external services. Teachers must explain that data is handled under settings or contracts that prevent use for foundation model training, while processing, storage, logging, monitoring, and safety review may still occur.

5. Conditions for Learning Guidance and Evaluation Use

Teachers may use student data for guidance, feedback, assignment checks, grading, misconduct checks, and class improvement, but must use it fairly and only for educationally appropriate purposes.

6. Use of AI Output in Evaluation

Teachers must not use AI output alone as the basis for grades, discipline, suspension, or other disadvantageous decisions.

7. Prohibition on Excessive Viewing and Use for Other Purposes

Teachers must not browse student data out of curiosity, for private purposes, or beyond educational necessity.

8. Information Teachers Must Not Require Students to Enter

Teachers must not require students to enter excessive sensitive information.

9. Responsibility for Group and Visibility Settings

Teachers are responsible for group visibility settings and accidental over-sharing caused by configuration mistakes.

10. Account and Login URL Management

Teachers must not allow shared accounts or login URL sharing.

11. Export and External Storage of Student Data

Once student data is exported, printed, screenshotted, copied, moved to external systems, or stored outside HiGPT, responsibility for management, protection, and disposal belongs to the teacher and organization.

12. Research Use, External Publication, and Personally Identifiable Analysis

Teachers must not use HiGPT student data for research, papers, conference presentations, external publication, case studies, identifiable analysis, teaching-material publication, or educational-effect analysis beyond ordinary class operation unless they comply with institutional rules, ethics review, privacy rules, applicable laws, and necessary consent procedures. HiGPT does not authorize, replace, or guarantee research ethics review or consent procedures.

13. Reporting Misuse or Incidents

Reporting obligations.

14. Response When Needed for Safety

Safety responses.

15. Copyright, Plagiarism, and AI Use Rules

Intellectual property rules.

16. Changes to External AI Services and Models

Models may change.

17. Alternatives During Service Outage

Teachers must prepare alternatives and must not assume HiGPT is always available during classes, assignments, tests, or grading.

18. Prohibited Conduct

Prohibited actions.

19. Suspension of Use or Permissions

Suspension rules.

20. Relationship with Institutional Rules

Follow institutional rules.

21. Changes to These Terms

Terms may change.