Compose — compose.fsautomation.ai
For your IT department
A teacher at your school wants to use Compose, a tool that turns a teacher's own question bank into multiple fair versions of a paper test. This page is the short version of what it does with data — the point is that there is very little to review.
The one-sentence summary
Compose is a teacher-only tool: it stores the teacher's own test content and no student personal information of any kind — no student names, no student accounts, no rosters, no individual grades. Students never log in.
What Compose stores
- • The teacher's account: email address, name if provided.
- • The teacher's own test content: questions, answer keys, uploaded PDFs/images of their materials, generated test versions.
- • The teacher's own planning content: units (objectives, standards, pacing notes), lesson plan drafts, and substitute day plans — all authored or reviewed by the teacher.
- • Anonymous, aggregate test results: a version letter plus the answers marked (e.g. "Version B: C, A, D…") — imported by the teacher or read from scanned bubble sheets.
- • For written answers: the teacher's confirmed right/wrong verdict per printed position. Never the student's handwriting or a transcription of it — the photo is read once and discarded.
- • Billing status via Stripe (we never see card numbers).
What it never stores
- • Student names, student accounts, or student logins — students never touch Compose.
- • Class rosters or enrollment data.
- • Grades or scores tied to an identifiable student.
- • Photos: scanned bubble-sheet images are processed once, in memory, and are not stored.
How bubble-sheet scanning stays name-free
Compose's printable answer sheets are name-free by design: they ask students for a student number from the teacher's own roster — the printed sheet says “never your name” — and the number-to-student mapping stays with the teacher. When the teacher photographs completed sheets for grading, each photo is processed once (by Compose and its AI subprocessor under no-training terms) solely to read the version letter, student number, and marked bubbles, then discarded. The software is engineered so that only a version letter and answer letters (A–E) can be written to the database — free text, including any handwritten name, is rejected at every extracted field. What persists is anonymous: version + answers, nothing else.
Security basics
- • Encryption in transit (TLS) everywhere; hosted in the United States.
- • Per-teacher workspace isolation enforced at the database layer (row-level security).
- • Uploaded files live in private storage served only via short-lived signed URLs.
- • Secrets are server-only; payments are handled entirely by Stripe.
- • Teacher content is never used to train AI models — ours or our providers'.
Why FERPA review is simple here
FERPA governs student education records. Compose is designed so it neither receives nor maintains them: no student PII is collected, results are anonymous, and the tool works entirely from the teacher's own instructional materials — the same category as a word processor or a copy machine. Full details: Privacy Policy · Subprocessor list · Terms.
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