Terms of Use

TeacherVision Studio (“Studio”) is operated by Sandbox Networks, Inc. (“Sandbox”, “we”, “us”), the company behind TeacherVision, part of the Sandbox International Holdings Ltd. group. You can reach us at support@teachervision.com or by post at WeWork 24th Fl, 1 Lincoln St, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

By using Studio you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use Studio.

Studio and TeacherVision are separate services

Studio is its own application, on its own address, with its own storage. You will often arrive here from a link on TeacherVision, and we are adding more of those links over time, so the two can feel like one product. They are not the same service, and which terms apply depends on which one you are using.

One practical difference worth knowing: TeacherVision carries advertising. Studio carries none, and shares nothing about you for advertising purposes. The Privacy Policy sets out the difference in full.

Studio is a professional tool for teachers and other educators. To use it you must:

• be at least 18 years old;
• have a TeacherVision account in good standing; and
• be using Studio as an educator.

Studio is not a product for students. Students do not need an account and must not create one. The one place students take part is a live quiz a teacher runs — section 9.

There is no separate sign-up for Studio. You sign in with your TeacherVision account, and TeacherVision passes us your email address, your name, your user ID, and whether your subscription is free or paid. We never see your password, and no card or billing details reach Studio.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Keep your sign-in details to yourself, and tell us promptly if you think someone else is using your account.

If your TeacherVision account is closed or suspended, your access to Studio ends with it.

Some of what Studio does is free. Some requires a paid TeacherVision subscription, and some has usage limits that apply whether or not you pay. We show you which is which in the product.

Your subscription, its price, its renewal and its cancellation are governed by the TeacherVision Subscription Terms (opens in a new tab), not by this page. Billing happens on TeacherVision.

We may change which features are free, which are paid, and what the usage limits are. Where a change takes away something you are currently paying for, we will tell you before it takes effect.

Your Content means everything you put into Studio: files you upload, links you paste, the topics and instructions you type, the messages you send in chat, and the titles and folders you create.

Your Content stays yours. We do not claim ownership of it.

To run Studio we need your permission to handle it. You grant Sandbox a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, adapt and display Your Content, solely in order to provide Studio to you. That includes sending it to the third-party providers described in section 7, because generating a resource means sending your material to an AI provider and getting the result back.

That permission is limited in three specific ways:

• It is only for running the service. We do not use Your Content for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it except as described in the Privacy Policy.
• We do not train AI models on Your Content.
• It ends when you delete. Delete a note, a resource or your account and the licence ends with it, except for copies held in routine backups for a limited period.

You promise you have the right to upload it

Teachers often work from material they did not write — a publisher’s worksheet, a chapter of a textbook, a colleague’s lesson plan. Studio does not check whether you hold the rights in what you give it, and cannot. By uploading, you confirm that you either own the material or have permission to use it this way, and that using it in Studio does not break anyone else’s rights, your school’s rules, or the law.

Output means what Studio produces for you: worksheets, quizzes, lesson plans, flashcards, notes, summaries, chat replies, and the PDF and Word files you download.

As between you and Sandbox, the Output is yours. We assign to you whatever rights we may have in it, and you may use it in your classroom, print it, share it with colleagues and students, and adapt it, without paying us anything further.

Two honest caveats:

• Output is not necessarily unique. Another teacher who asks for something similar may get something similar. We cannot promise your Output is original, and we do not grant you any exclusivity over it.
• AI output may not be protectable. Whether material generated by AI attracts copyright at all is unsettled in many countries. We are giving you everything we can give you; we cannot give you more than the law recognises.

Studio is an AI system. It is powered by large language models that we reach through third-party providers, and it works by sending your material to those providers to be processed.

What that means in practice:

• The text of what you upload or type is sent to an AI provider so it can generate your resource. It is sent for that purpose and no other.
• Audio and video recordings are sent to a speech-to-text provider to be turned into text.
• A YouTube link you paste usually goes nowhere: we fetch the video’s own captions ourselves. If it has none, we download its audio and send that to the same speech-to-text provider — an AI step, on someone else’s published video, never on your own material. Only if both of those fail is the video address, and only the address, sent to a transcript provider, which retrieves the captions or transcribes the audio itself. We do not AI-transcribe videos longer than 30 minutes by either route.
• PDFs are read on our own servers. A PDF is never sent to a third party just to be read.
• No AI provider is permitted to train on your material.

The Privacy Policy names every provider we use and what each one receives. If you want to know exactly where your material goes, that is the page to read.

AI gets things wrong

Studio can produce answers that are factually incorrect, answer keys that are wrong, reading levels that miss, and citations to things that do not exist. It does not know your students, your curriculum or your context.

Everything Studio produces is a draft, and you are the teacher. You are responsible for reviewing Output before you use it with a class, for its accuracy, and for whether it is appropriate for the students in front of you. Studio does not make decisions about students, and it must not be used as though it does.

Studio does not need student personal information, and asks for none. There is no field for a student’s name, email address, grades or records anywhere in the product, apart from the live quiz described in section 9.

Please do not upload it. Do not upload marked student work, class lists, IEPs, assessment records or anything else that identifies a student. Studio cannot detect that you have, and material you upload is sent to AI providers to be processed.

If you do upload student information despite this:

• you confirm you have the authority to do so from your school, district or employer;
• you remain responsible for meeting FERPA, COPPA, state student-privacy laws, the UK or EU GDPR, or whatever applies where you work; and
• we handle it as described in the Privacy Policy, as a service provider to your school.

A live quiz lets you put a quiz on the board and have students join from their own devices with a code. It is deliberately thin:

• Students do not create accounts and are never asked for an email address or a password.
• A student types a name — whatever you have told them to use — and answers questions.
• Nothing follows a student between sessions. No student profile exists anywhere in Studio.
• Marking happens on our own servers by comparing the student’s answer against the answer key. No student’s answers are ever sent to an AI provider.
• A session stops accepting answers 4 hours after it starts, and everything in it is deleted within 24 hours.

You are in charge of the session. Tell your students what name to use — first names or initials are enough, and nothing in Studio needs their real full name. Sharing the join link is your decision, and anyone with the link and the code can join while the session is open.

Do not use Studio to:

• upload anything unlawful, infringing, hateful, harassing or sexually explicit;
• upload material you do not have the right to use;
• generate material intended to deceive, defame or harm anyone;
• produce work for a student to submit as their own;
• work around usage limits, or use automated means to access Studio at scale;
• resell Studio or access to your account;
• copy, reverse engineer or attempt to extract the models, prompts or systems behind Studio;
• probe, scan or interfere with the security of Studio or the systems behind it; or
• do anything that breaks the law where you are, or your employer’s rules.

We may remove content and suspend or end access if these terms are broken. Where the situation allows it, we will tell you why.

Studio itself — the software, the design, the templates and layouts, the TeacherVision and TeacherVision Studio names and logos — belongs to Sandbox and its licensors. These terms give you permission to use Studio; they do not give you any rights in it.

The document templates and page designs Studio applies to your resources stay ours. You own what goes into them, and you can use the finished document however you like, but you may not extract the templates for use in another product.

Studio is under active development. Features will be added, changed and sometimes removed. Some features are labelled as previews, and those may change or disappear with little notice.

We do not promise Studio will be available without interruption. Generation depends on third-party AI providers, and there will be times when it is slow, degraded or unavailable.

We will give you reasonable notice of changes that materially reduce what Studio does for you.

You can stop at any time. You can delete individual notes, resources and sessions from within Studio, or delete your whole Studio account from your account settings. Account deletion is immediate and cannot be undone — your Studio notes, resources and files are removed and cannot be recovered. Your TeacherVision account and subscription are not affected and continue separately.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if we are required to, or if we stop offering Studio. If we stop offering Studio, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to download what you have made.

Sections 5, 6, 11, 15, 16 and 17 survive the end of these terms.

This section applies only if you are a consumer habitually resident in a European Union member state. It does not apply if you are in the UK, the US or elsewhere, and it does not apply if you are using Studio on behalf of a school, district or other organisation rather than as a private individual.

Studio is an online subscription service, not a sale of goods: there is nothing to return, and access is provided to you as soon as you sign in. Under EU consumer law (Directive 2011/83/EU, as implemented in your country), you generally have 14 days from the date you subscribe to withdraw from that subscription without giving a reason.

Because Studio gives you access immediately rather than delivering a physical product, that right works differently from a right to return goods. If, when you subscribed, you asked us to start giving you access straight away and confirmed you understood you might lose some or all of the 14-day withdrawal right by doing so, then: if you withdraw before the subscription period is used up, you may still owe a proportionate amount for the access you already had; and once you have made full use of the subscription period you paid for, the right of withdrawal no longer applies.

Your subscription and any payment are handled on TeacherVision, not here (section 4), so you exercise this right there, using the process in the TeacherVision Subscription Terms (opens in a new tab) — or contact us at support@teachervision.com and we will point you to it. You do not need to delete your Studio account first, and withdrawing from the subscription does not by itself delete what you have made in Studio (section 13 covers that separately).

This section is a plain-language summary of a right EU law gives you; it does not reduce it.

Studio is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that Output will be accurate, complete, original, curriculum-aligned or fit for any particular class.

Nothing here excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and if you are a consumer you keep your statutory rights. If you are a consumer in the UK, nothing here excludes or limits our obligation under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to provide Studio with reasonable care and skill.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Sandbox is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or lost goodwill, arising out of your use of Studio.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to Studio is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for your TeacherVision subscription in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes are resolved in the same way as disputes under the TeacherVision Terms of Use (opens in a new tab), including any agreement to arbitrate and any waiver of class proceedings set out there.

The following terms to which you are consenting consist of a binding arbitration provision and a class-action and jury trial waiver.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, by using the Site, you agree that if a dispute arises between you and the Sandbox Parties relating in any way to the Site and/or your use of the Site, including common law or statutory claims, both you and the Sandbox Parties shall submit to binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association. Any arbitration commenced between you and the Sandbox Parties must be arbitrated in Massachusetts. Arbitration must be on an individual basis. This means neither you nor the Sandbox Parties may join claims in arbitration with or against other users, or litigate in court or arbitrate any claims as a representative or member of a class. You understand that by agreeing to arbitration you are waiving certain legal rights, including the right to sue in court, the right to have the dispute resolved by a judge or jury, and the right to bring, or be part of, a class action case. The foregoing shall not apply to suits to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights, and you or the Sandbox Parties may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.

If any court or arbitrator determines that the class action waiver set forth above is void or unenforceable for any reason or that an arbitration can proceed on a class basis, then the arbitration provision set forth above shall be deemed null and void in its entirety and the parties shall be deemed to have not agreed to arbitrate disputes.

Rules for the American Arbitration Association are available at: https://www.adr.org (opens in a new tab).

If you are a consumer habitually resident outside of the United States, this section does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live, and does not require you to bring a claim only through arbitration where the law of your country of residence gives you the right to bring it in your local courts instead.

We update this page when Studio changes. The date at the top is the last time it changed. If a change materially affects your rights, we will tell you in the product rather than relying on you to re-read this page. Using Studio after a change means you accept the updated terms.

• Studio, privacy and data questions: support@teachervision.com
• Subscription and billing: help@teachervision.com
• Post: TeacherVision Studio, c/o Sandbox Networks, Inc., WeWork 24th Fl, 1 Lincoln St, Boston, MA 02111, USA
• Phone: 1-800-498-3264

See also the Privacy Policy, the TeacherVision Terms of Use (opens in a new tab) and the Subscription Terms (opens in a new tab), which govern your account and your subscription.

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