Compose — composeforteachers.com
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 shuffled 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.
- • Test results without names: a version letter plus the answers marked (e.g. "Version B: C, A, D…") and, from a scanned sheet, the class number the student wrote — a one-to-three-digit number the teacher assigned on their own class list, never a school student ID. It has no meaning to Compose without the teacher's roster.
- • 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 class number — a simple number the teacher assigns on their own class list, never a name and never a school student ID; the printed sheet says so — and the number-to-student mapping stays with the teacher. Student names are not required anywhere in grading. When the teacher photographs completed sheets, each photo is processed once (by Compose and its AI subprocessor under no-training terms) solely to read the version letter, class number, and marked bubbles, then discarded. The software is engineered so that only a version letter, answer letters (A–J) and a class number of one to three digits can be written to the database — free text, including any handwritten name, is rejected at every extracted field, and a longer number (a school ID) is dropped rather than stored. What persists is version + answers + the class number the student wrote, which has no meaning to Compose without the teacher's roster.
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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