Teachers stay in charge
AI drafts; you decide. Generated content is editable and nothing reaches students until you publish or assign it. Every AI-suggested grade can be reviewed and changed.
Our approach to AI
AI drafts. Teachers decide.
We use AI to take the repetitive work off teachers’ plates — drafting, formatting, first-pass grading — while keeping judgment, relationships and final decisions with the people who teach.
Four principles
Grounded in your materials
Generation starts from your courses, notes and uploads. The slides copilot is instructed never to invent statistics, quotes, citations or class data — without a source it leaves it out or asks.
Students do the learning
Student AI features are off until a school turns them on, and are rate-limited per student. The writing coach asks questions and gives feedback; it doesn’t write for them.
Checked, not just generated
Answer-key verification re-checks generated questions and flags keys that may be wrong. Uploaded documents are treated as material to read, never as instructions to follow.
Where AI helps
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Drafting materials
Tests, worksheets, flashcards and study guides generated from a course, unit or upload, ready for you to edit.
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Slides copilot
Builds and edits decks from your materials for classes, staff PD, families and more, with speaker notes and image alt text.
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Targeting a class
When you pick a class, the copilot reads anonymised, aggregate results — weakest questions, common wrong answers — never individual students.
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Grading written answers
Suggested scores, partial credit and feedback for open-ended answers, with a strictness setting you control.
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Writing coach
On assignments where you enable it: feedback on a draft, help getting started, a thesis check or a clarity pass.
What AI doesn’t do
- Have the final word on a grade — you can always review and override it.
- Publish or assign anything on its own.
- Write essays or paragraphs for students in the writing coach.
- Look up individual students’ results when building slides.
- Decide integrity cases — signals like tab switches or pasted text are shown to you, and you decide.
How data sent to AI services is handled is described in our privacy policy. School administrators can see their organization’s AI usage.
Built by students, for classrooms
Checkmate is built by students at Immaculata High School. We know what honest effort looks like from the other side of the desk, and we design every AI feature so it supports learning rather than replacing it.