This is the text each tuition centre's Acadence site shows to its users. On a centre's site, the centre's registered name and contact details appear where this page says "your tuition centre".
AI marking of practice
Version 2026-10-27.
In short: photos of your practice working (not your name) go to an AI service, which marks it straight away. No tutor checks it first, so it can be wrong, and it never goes into your gradebook. You can say no, or change your mind later on your profile page.
Practice is a self-check tool. Your centre chose to switch it on for your class. The AI's practice marks are not marks given by Acadence or by your tutor; they are hints to help you check your own working.
This is optional and separate from AI marking of your worksheets. If you are 13 or older, you can agree for yourself. If you are under 13, your parent or guardian must agree for you. While the centre uses OpenAI, your parent's or guardian's agreement (as in the AI marking consent) is needed as well. With this agreement the centre may use an AI service to check the working you do in Practice.
What is different from worksheets
- No tutor checks these marks before you see them. The result is shown to you at once and is labelled "Practice: auto-checked, not reviewed by your tutor". It can be wrong.
- Practice marks never go into your gradebook or your reports. They only change your practice level.
- The marking criteria used for practice questions were written with the help of AI and have not been approved by a tutor.
What is sent
- Images of the practice question, the marking scheme for it, and your working and answers.
- Not your name, username or account details. If you write your name on the page, it will be in the image, so please leave it off.
Where it goes
- One of the same AI services as worksheet marking, on the same terms and with the same limits, as set out in the AI marking consent and at acadence.net/legal/providers.
- We do not use any other AI company for your practice. If that changes, you will be asked again.
What is kept
- The marks, the text the AI read from your work and its reasons, with your practice record. The full request and reply are deleted after 90 days. The rest follows the Privacy notice.
- If you think a practice mark is wrong, check your own work against the solution, or ask your tutor.
Changing your mind
You, or your parent or guardian if they agreed for you, can withdraw this consent at any time on your profile page under Policies and agreements. Your practice is then checked by code and by you, as before. Nothing else changes.