Of course! We are eager to have teachers use our products which are designed to help make your job as a teacher easier! When the Socrait service is used by a teacher in a classroom setting, Socrait functions as a school official under FERPA and we process personal data solely for the school’s educational purpose. We worked with the best privacy lawyers in the country to make sure our Privacy Policy and End User Agreement align with FEPRA, COPPA and State requirements from a student privacy and data security perspective. If you have any questions or concerns, speak with your school edtech leader, we are happy to do a call with them to go over our Privacy Policy, security practices, and answer any other questions.
We’re building Socrait from the ground up for the privacy and security needs of students, teachers, schools, and districts. We do not sell your data for any reason and we are building our platform to achieve world class security and privacy standards. We are also working with some of the best K12 privacy experts in the country to help us design and develop our data protection practices. You can find our comprehensive privacy and security policy documentation on our privacy page here.
There are no audio recordings of your classes. Socrait does not record or create a permanent audio file of any kind. Instead, Socrait streams your voice to a cloud service that converts waveforms into written transcripts and generates educationally useful data (like praises, warnings, reminders, attendance, and the like) and this educational data is displayed in dashboards. In a future version of Socrait, teachers will have the option to review a transcript of each class, which will be available temporarily (e.g., 14 days) before being automatically and permanently deleted. Once this feature is available, teachers will be able to delete transcripts manually if they wish to delete them sooner.
Yes. Since Socrait is not designed or intended to collect any personal information directly from students, and is simply converting the teacher’s voice into educationally useful data, we do not restrict teacher usage based on the ages of students in each classroom. While ChatGPT’s policy for users is that they must be 13 or older, this policy does not apply to our Socrait platform because the users are teachers who are older than 13. To the extent Socrait receives personal information about students through the teacher’s use of Socrait – for example, if the teacher’s voice stream includes information about a particular student – Socrait treats this as confidential student data under FERPA and other privacy laws. However, the decision on the appropriate age to use our platform in classrooms ultimately rests with local school or district’s policy and users should follow those policies.
Yes! The vast majority of teachers can – and are – using Socrait on their personal phones. We treat any data captured through our service as subject to FERPA and student data privacy laws regardless of whether it comes from a teacher’s personal phone or a school-issued device. Any information we receive is considered part educational records, and we process it only on behalf of the LEA, school, or relevant school official who is the authorized user. We do not permanently store student information on the teacher’s phone. Information like voice names are pulled directly from the web to the device’s memory when logged in. When the app is closed, the memory is cleared. We do not store any kind of audio files or transcripts on the phone. You can be assured that you are not carrying student data around on your personal phone so long as you close the Socrait app when you are done with each teaching day. That said, please consult your school edtech leader about your school’s device management policies. We would be happy to do a call with them to go over our Privacy Policy, security, and any other questions they might have.
When we perform tasks like generating a message to parents, we anonymize the student voice names before we send any kind of request to another AI service. We ensure that each platform capability uses the best AI model to generate the strongest outputs. Socrait can be powered by various models such as OpenAI’s GPT 4o, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and others (we are trying multiple models). Based on our testing, there is no one single model that is best for all tasks (yet). Constant experimentation is being conducted to pair actions with different models to determine the most optimal AI model for specific tasks. We know that AI technology moves fast and therefore, it’s important that we’re able to flex between models to produce the best possible experience for educators. This iterative process ensures that the platform consistently delivers the highest quality responses to its users.
Socrait is a voice-enabled AI-powered class assistant, designed to save teachers time and reduce burnout. Socrait was invented by a teacher, for teachers. We started the company and are building Socrait to make life easier for teachers, helping save time on administrative activities that take away from teaching time (behavior management, attendance, emails to parents, required forms, etc.).
If you have additional questions, please refer to our Privacy Policy or email [email protected].
