Teacher Assistant Disclosure

AI Nutrition Facts Teacher Assistant
Description The Teacher Assistant is a AI chat bot that allows teachers to receive instructional planning and support through natural language conversations. It is designed to help teachers understand what resources are available with the program, find relevant instructional resources to be better differentiate instruction, and make informed instructional decisions to personalize learning.
Privacy Ladder Level	1
Feature is Optional	Yes
Model Type	Generative
Base Model	OpenAI – GPT-4.1 (subject to change)

Trust Ingredients
Base Model Trained with Customer Data Teacher Assistant is not trained on and does not have access to any user data or PII.	No
Customer Data is Shared with Model Vendor Teacher Assistant runs on a private instance of base model that does not send data back to model vendor.	No
Training Data Anonymized	N/A
Data Deletion McGraw Hill’s engineering team will keep a secure record of all user interactions to monitor performance. Data will be discarded after 1 year.	Yes
Human in the Loop While there are a number of safety and accuracy guardrails in place, learners receive instant output from AI model.	No
Data Retention	1-year
Compliance Logging & Auditing McGraw Hill will systematically review records of model input/output to audit performance. Model upgrades will be made as needed. Guardrails Teacher Assistant employs inputs and output guardrails. There are constraints applied to content that users are able to use AI for (e.g., users cannot select certain inappropriate words). The model then has prompt level instructions to ensure that output is grounded, relevant, and appropriate for the given learning context.	Yes
Input/Output Consistency	Yes
Other Resources Ask your Customer Support Representative for more information about Teacher Assistant.

Teacher Assistant Model Overview

Teacher Assistant is built using a large language model (LLM). This LLM is a private instance of OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 provided via Microsoft Azure AI. This model is given context for the specified title (and only that title) using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern, which indexes McGraw Hill’s content.

Data Privacy and Security

McGraw Hill takes matters of security and bias very seriously, and we have performed extensive testing and monitoring to ensure Teacher Assistant meets our high standards for educational use. We designed Teacher Assistant to be secure in design and to minimize bias, inaccuracies, and inappropriateness in responses.

No Access to PII: Teacher Assistant’s model does not have access to any personally identifiable information (PII) or specific user data.
No Data Sharing: Teacher Assistant does not send data back to the model vendor for model training purposes.
Secure Data Handling: Our secure system records all model inputs (e.g., user-generated prompts and interactions with responses) and outputs for product improvement and model evaluations. Data will be discarded after 1-year.
Bias, Accuracy, and Appropriateness Guardrails: Underlying each “action” (e.g., find additional practice for fractions) is a proprietary, lengthy prompt. These prompts have been designed to minimize potential biases, inaccuracies, or inappropriateness in responses. While McGraw Hill is dedicated to offering safest-in-class AI solutions for education, AI might occasionally produce biased or inaccurate information, and users must use critical thinking to evaluate model output as AI makes mistakes.

Continuous Improvement

McGraw Hill’s team is dedicated to the continuous improvement of our products, including Teacher Assistant. To better serve educators, our team will systematically review deidentified model data and reserves the right to make changes to the underlying model as needed. This ongoing process ensures that Teacher Assistant improves as a reliable and effective tool for education.

Instructor Choice

While AI technologies, like Teacher Assistant, present many exciting opportunities within education, we want the choice to use these technologies to remain firmly in the hands of instructors. Instructors may easily toggle Teacher Assistant on/off at any point, for any amount of time. This option may be found in the Course dashboard.

Thoughtful Design

McGraw Hill tools are designed in collaboration with educators across the country to address real and practical classroom needs. McGraw Hill’s AI solutions, like Teacher Assistant, work in collaboration with our trusted instructional materials. This cohesive approach encompasses curriculum scope and sequence as well as pedagogical principles. Teacher Assistant was developed aligned to McGraw Hill’s balanced and thoughtful approach to using AI in the classroom.

Teacher Assistant empowers educators by supporting them in identifying the instructional resources and strategies most relevant to their students to personalize learning. Teacher Assistant helps teachers:

Understand what instructional resources are available within their program.
Gain insight into the instructional design of their course and its features.
Quickly find relevant instructional resources available to more effectively differentiate instruction.

Teacher Assistant can help find specific materials, summarize lessons, suggest pacing adjustments, and more. Some illustrative queries:

What do I need to know about Reveal Math to get started?
Help me plan my next unit.
What prerequisite skills do my students need to be successful in this unit?
What adjustments should I consider for my next lesson?
What additional practice is available for students struggling with today’s lesson?