Education Modified Smart Plans FAQ
Ethical AI FAQ's
- What is ethical AI?
Ethical AI takes into account the following best practices to ensure ethics and safety are top priority in using the AI:
- Transparency – Clear, explainable outputs
- Fairness – Reduces bias and promotes equity
- Collaboratively Sourced Data – Ensures high-quality, representative data
- Privacy – Protects student information under FERPA
- Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Protocol – Human intervention is a must as part of the practice; AI assists, and teachers decide
- What is Human in the Loop Protocol (HITL)?
A best practice that requires human review and approval (preferably by domain experts) for all outputs. Involves some combination of human review, feedback, editing or annotation, and/or approval before an output is completed, finalized, or shared.
- Does Education Modified share data with the LLM?
No, Education Modified uses a completely anonymized process in the full interaction with the LLM (all PII is redacted and then replaced).
- Which LLM do you use?
Claude Sonnet 4.0
- How does Education Modified compare to ChatGPT?
A few ways- Education Modified offers a more secure and data-driven approach. Education Modified Smart Plans is an embedded feature in the broader Education Modified platform, uses a completely anonymized process that is FERPA-compliant, and uses data collected in the Education Modified platform, along with other data sources educators use to draft plans
- Can I purchase Smart Plans for an individual user?
We have school & district licenses; feel free to have your principal or admin team reach out directly to purchase for individuals or teams.
Smart Plans FAQ's
- What type of documents can I upload?
- IEPs
- Behavior plans
- Psychological assessments
- MTSS data
- Data from the Data Collection Hub, etc.
- Any documents related to the student as long as they are in JPEG or PDF form.
- What are examples of AI prompts that can be used for IEP revisions?
Here is a document that shows examples of prompts you can use for IEP revisions.
- What types of plans can Smartplans generate at this time?
- IEP's