Frequently asked questions.
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About GAIL4 Q’s
Get AI Literate is an independent project that makes AI literacy a measurable, teachable competency. It centers on a 7-pillar framework and a free assessment that scores you across every pillar so you know which skills to build first.
Primarily students in business, marketing, and communications programs entering an AI-changed workforce. The framework and assessment are also used by career centers, employers, and individual professionals who want a shared language for AI fluency.
No. GAIL is an independent project, debt-free, and built on the premise that students own their AI literacy, not their school, not a tool vendor, not a future employer. The framework is published openly for that reason.
GAIL was founded by Fred Faulkner, with input from an advisory team spanning curriculum design, assessment science, and field practice. The framework is aligned with UNESCO, AACSB, McKinsey, and NACE research.
The assessment5 Q’s
About 10 minutes for the short version, 25 minutes for the full one. There’s no time limit, you can pause and come back from the same browser.
Yes. The full assessment, your pillar-by-pillar report, and the downloadable PDF are all free for individual users. No credit card. Institutional licensing (cohort dashboards, SSO, LMS integration) is paid.
No. Your results are stored in your browser. You can choose to email them to yourself or share a results link, but neither is required to see your score.
Yes, every 90 days. We recommend retaking after a focused learning sprint, say, 8–12 weeks working on one weak pillar, to see what moved.
Each pillar is scored independently on a 0–100 scale and assigned a band (Novice / Developing / Proficient / Advanced). Your overall score is a weighted aggregate. The full scoring rubric is published on each pillar page.
Pricing & plans4 Q’s
Nothing. Free forever for individual students and professionals. The assessment, the report, the framework, and all public resources are open.
Career centers and academic departments start with a free Pilot tier (one cohort, one semester, up to 100 students). The Department tier is $2,400/year for up to 500 students; University is custom-priced for multi-college rollouts.
Yes, 15% off for 2-year and 25% off for 3-year University-tier agreements.
Yes. Reach out and we’ll work something out, the framework is meant to be accessible.
Privacy & data5 Q’s
Only you, by default. We never expose individual results to your school, career center, or anyone else, even if your university is a partner. You choose whether to share.
Yes. For institutional licenses, we process data on behalf of the institution. No individual-student data leaves your tenant, and aggregate dashboards never expose individual scores. Full DPA available on request.
US-based AWS region. Institutional data is segregated per tenant.
Yes. There’s a ‘delete everything’ button in your results view. Once you click it, we have nothing left.
No. We don’t train models on user data. The assessment items, rubric, and scoring logic are built and maintained by our team.
For educators4 Q’s
Yes. Instructors can spin up a free cohort link that aggregates anonymous scores into a class-level snapshot, useful for syllabus calibration. Individual student data stays private to the student.
Canvas and Blackboard LTI integrations are live for institutional licenses. Students launch the assessment from inside the course; aggregate results sync to the dashboard.
Pillar weightings are configurable on the University tier, useful if you want to emphasize, say, Pillar 06 (data & privacy) for a healthcare-adjacent program. The underlying rubric is fixed to preserve cross-institution comparability.
Yes. Each pillar has a 90-minute workshop kit (slides + worksheets + facilitator notes) included with institutional licenses.
Using your results3 Q’s
Lead with your strong pillars. Show the report PDF if asked, it reads like a transcript. Most recruiters will recognize the framework by late 2026; if they don’t, the PDF explains it on the first page.
That’s the point of taking it now, while you have time. The report tells you exactly which 2–3 pillars to focus on. Most students who retake after a focused semester gain 15–25 points.
Yes. Every completed assessment generates a verifiable badge URL you can paste into LinkedIn’s Licenses & Certifications section. Click your share link to copy it.
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