How Lit-Levels earns your trust

Educators and families deserve to know where every number comes from, what it can and cannot tell you, and who makes the decisions. This page explains our approach in plain language.

Our principles

  • Activity is never presented as proof of learning.
  • Dashboards are calibration checks, not causation claims.
  • AI recommends; people decide.
  • We never sell student data or advertise to students.

Distinctions we keep

Some things look similar on a dashboard but mean very different things. Lit-Levels keeps them apart.

Activity is not learning
Time spent and items completed show participation. They are not presented as proof that a skill was learned.
Practice is not mastery
Practice results are kept separate from the evidence used for mastery decisions.
Supported is not independent
Work done with supports such as Read To Me is labelled, so it is not confused with independent work.
Progress during intervention is not causation
We show how a student progressed while receiving support. We do not claim the support caused the change.
Missing is not zero
Missing evidence is shown as missing. It is never counted as a score of zero.
Recommendation is not decision
Lit-Levels can suggest. A person decides.

How AI is used, and where it stops

AI helps organize evidence, draft suggestions and give formative feedback. Every suggestion shows the evidence it came from.

People decide:

  • which skill a student works on next
  • support tiers and intervention choices
  • grades
  • reviews of constructed responses that affect mastery

AI-generated stories pass automated content and rigor checks before students see them, and teachers can review, flag or replace assignments.

How we check quality before release

Before changes reach classrooms, we run:

  • automated checks of the features being changed
  • data-trust checks that confirm numbers match across teacher and leader views
  • automated accessibility checks of key pages, including scripted keyboard checks and checks of the labels screen readers use

Human reviews with screen readers, keyboards and different devices are being carried out with pilot schools and are not yet complete.

These are our internal practices. They are not a certification by an outside organization.

Families and privacy

Student information is used to support learning. We do not sell student data, and we do not show advertising to students. Family access is arranged through the school or our team, and families see only their own child's information.

Student photo upload is currently turned off until a verified parent/guardian consent process is available, and cartoon avatars are created inside Lit-Levels without sending a name or ID to an outside avatar service. The services we use are listed in our Privacy Policy.

Read the details in our Student Data Protection page and our Privacy Policy.

Questions about our evidence practices?

We welcome questions from educators, leaders and families.

The Experience uses fictional students and sample data.