Use AI with student data, and keep it safe doing it.
A free, plain-language course on the privacy laws and AI risks that come with putting student data near an AI model. Start with the foundations, then go as deep as your work needs.
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AI Safety & Security Foundations
6 short lessons for anyone who works with students or student data. No legal or technical background needed. Each lesson ends with a quick quiz, and you can print a certificate of completion from Lumina EdTech when you finish.
- About 54 minutes in total
- A four-question quiz after each lesson
- A printable certificate at the end
The full curriculum
Ten modules for people who build or buy software that touches student data.
Student privacy and vendor obligations
FERPA, COPPA, PPRA, state student privacy laws and the contracts districts sign. What a vendor may do with student records, and why.
5 modules02The nonprofit data layer
Working with community partners on poverty and family services: sensitive data, consent, data sharing agreements and program rules.
1 module03AI security for tools that touch student data
How LLM features fail, how to keep personal data out of prompts, and how to test that one school's data never reaches another.
3 modules04Certification prep
Turning the coursework into a recognized credential, and choosing which one is worth the time.
1 moduleHow each module works
Built to be used at work, not just read.
Read the explainer
The law or the risk in plain terms, with the parts that matter for vendors and schools pulled out.
Do the lab
Every module ends with a practical task that produces something you keep: a checklist, a matrix, a threat model.
Check the source
Every module links to the statute, regulation or issuing body, with the date its content was last checked.
Fifteen minutes a day. One safer school.
Start with the foundations course. It is free, it takes about 54 minutes, and you finish with a certificate you can print.
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