In short
You can create tests and practice spaces based on your own teaching materials. Examplary uses those materials as a source and writes new questions from them. Your materials stay yours, you decide who you share them with, and we never use them to train AI.
What happens when you upload materials?
Examplary reads your materials and uses them to write new questions, answer keys and feedback. Copyright protects how a text is written, not the knowledge it contains.
An example: you upload a chapter about the circulatory system. Examplary writes a new question about it, for example about the function of the heart valves. That question tests the same content, but it isn't a copy of the chapter.
It's what teachers have always done: read the textbook and write their own test or practice questions. Examplary just helps you do it faster.
What can you upload?
Examplary works like your own cloud storage, similar to OneDrive or Google Drive. So you can upload complete documents too, such as:
- your own teaching materials, tests and notes;
- openly licensed materials;
- materials from your textbook, such as a PDF of a chapter.
As with any cloud service, you're responsible for what you upload. Only upload materials you have permission to use. Not sure what your licence allows? Check with your school or the publisher.
Questions and tests from your textbook
The knowledge in your textbook is free to use, but the questions and tests written by the publisher are protected themselves.
That's why, by default, Examplary's AI is set up not to copy these questions word for word, but to always write new ones. For tests, you review every question before you use it. In practice spaces, the AI creates questions while students practise. You won't see each one in advance, but the same setting applies.
The only exception is when you deliberately import an existing test, for example as a PDF, scan or QTI file. In that case, you do copy those questions. Only do this with tests you made yourself or have permission to use.
As for your publisher's terms: some publishers don't allow their materials to be uploaded to AI tools that reuse the content themselves, for example to train their AI. Examplary doesn't do that. If you want to use complete tests from your publisher in Examplary, ask the publisher for permission.
What Examplary does with your materials
- They stay yours. Your materials, and the questions and tests you create with them, belong to you or your school. We don't claim any rights to them.
- You decide who sees them. Your materials are in your own workspace. Colleagues only see them if you share them. Students never see your source materials, only the tests and exercises you set for them.
- We don't publish them. Your materials are never made public or shared with other schools or third parties.
- No training. We never use your materials to train AI models. Neither does our AI provider; we agree this in our contract with them.
- Stored securely in the EU. Your materials are stored encrypted on servers in the EU. To create questions, a temporary copy goes to our AI provider. It's deleted within two hours.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Examplary works like your own cloud storage, just like OneDrive. You're responsible for what you upload, so if in doubt, check what your licence allows.
You or your school. Examplary doesn't claim any rights to your materials or to what you create with them.
No. Students only see the tests and exercises you set for them.
Yes, if you want to. You choose who you work with. Without your action, nobody else sees your materials.
No, never. Not by us and not by our AI provider.
Contact us at support@examplary.ai. We'll review the report, talk to the school and, if needed, temporarily make the material unavailable.
Want to know more?
This guide gives general information and isn't legal advice. The actual agreements are in our terms and privacy policy and, for schools, in the data processing agreement. Have a question about your own situation? Email us at support@examplary.ai.