Frequently asked questions

By the school, as with any school-based CPD. Under the CBSE CPD Guidelines 2025 (TRG-02/2025, 01 April 2025) each teacher completes 50 hours a year — 25 through CBSE/Government training and 25 school-based, split 6 (Core Values & Ethics), 8 (Knowledge & Practice) and 11 (Professional Growth & Development). Schools update training records on the OASIS portal and keep records for verification. For every session of this programme we supply a CPD attendance and record sheet — session, hours, the domain the school assigns, attendance, facilitator, evidence — and your coordinator keeps it. PrepGraph does not record CPD hours on any school’s behalf.

No. The certificate is issued by PrepGraph. PrepGraph Academy is not affiliated with, endorsed by or accredited by the Central Board of Secondary Education. We say “aligned with the CBSE 2026-27 training theme” and “aligned with the CBSE/NPST professional-development domains” because the content is designed to them; we never say CBSE-certified or CBSE-approved, and we do not use the CBSE logo. The positive half of that is worth saying too: the school hosts the programme, records the hours and keeps the register, and PrepGraph is the external training partner CBSE’s own guidelines contemplate — the expert a school invites, not the body that certifies the school’s hours. CBSE itself has warned (Disclaimer, 18 July 2024) about emails offering teacher training on AI “as per CBSE official syllabus” — it issued no such email — and no provider should imply endorsement.

The content is mapped 6 / 8 / 11 across the three NPST domains — the same split as the school-based 25 hours — but how each session is recorded is the school’s decision, not ours. Two facts from the CBSE side help: CBSE Notification TRG-02 (09 April 2026) counts a school-hosted, expert-led talk on CT & AI as 3 hours of school-based CPD under Domain-II, and a one-day District Level Deliberation as 6 hours under Domain-II; and the CPD Guidelines 2025 recognise classroom research, mentoring fellow teachers, reflective journals and integrating technology into teaching as Domain-III developmental tasks — which is what the practicum and capstone are. More on the CBSE & CPD page.

An in-school cohort of 15–40 teachers works best — enough for group work, small enough for the facilitator to follow every practicum. Mix subjects, include at least one academic coordinator, and nominate two or three teachers you would like to see become the school’s AI Champions (Level 4, later). Schools with fewer teachers can join a cluster cohort with two to four nearby schools; larger schools run successive cohorts.

For schools adopting PrepGraph the teacher programme is bundled into the PrepGraph Institutional AI Learning Programme — the student platform, the free teacher dashboard, the 25-hour programme and certification, the principal workshop, the parent and student session outlines and twelve weeks of implementation support. It is not sold separately in that case. Standalone cohorts for other schools are quoted per cohort. We do not publish prices on this site; tell us your teacher count and calendar and we will send a plan.

About teachers: name, school, role, contact details, attendance, submitted assignments and assessment results — what is needed to run the cohort and issue a certificate. About students: nothing through the programme itself. During the practicum, teachers use the school’s own PrepGraph accounts, so class logs, assignments, results and tutor usage sit in the school’s PrepGraph workspace, scoped to that school, under the school’s agreement with PrepGraph. Capstone case studies report class-level numbers; individual students are not named in anything that leaves the school. We do not sell your details or pass them to anyone for their own marketing; a small number of service providers — hosting, analytics, our own CRM — process data on our instructions, and they are named in the privacy notice, along with how long we keep what and how to have it corrected or deleted.

Yes, if your school volunteers as a Lead School. Under the CBSE Guidelines 2026 for District Level Deliberations on CT & AI, a Lead School hosts a one-day offline forum via the Sahodaya complex or a group of willing schools; teachers present case papers (Format F1), an Appreciation Committee scores them (Format F4), and it counts as 6 hours of school-based CPD under Domain-II — the organiser invites the experts and keeps the records. PrepGraph can help you host it: a hosting checklist, F1 coaching for presenting teachers, an expert-led session inside the day and — separately, optionally, outside the counted hours — a demonstration of how what was discussed runs with 40 students tomorrow. We do not run or certify the DLD; the school does. A school can also host CBSE’s Activity 2, a half-day expert-led talk (3 hours, Domain-II), with PrepGraph as the invited external expert. See CT & AI Workshop.

A PrepGraph recognition — not a CBSE accreditation — for schools where 70–80% of participating teachers have certified at Level 3 (PrepGraph Certified AI-Enabled Educator), the school has an AI policy and a responsible-use policy, named AI Champions, has run the student and parent AI-awareness sessions, and can show evidence of personalised intervention and implementation metrics. It comes after the programme, not instead of it — the criteria are published now; applications are not yet open.

In one paragraph. A teacher records what they taught today in a class log — topic, tagged concepts, homework, next test. Each student has a personal AI tutor (voice in Hindi or English; chat in English today) that knows that class log, re-explains the homework items the student opens at the student’s level, and can answer from notes the teacher shares to a library. Teachers set short diagnostics or homework from a review-first question bank — nothing reaches students until a teacher approves it — and see who attempted, how each question went, and give feedback. Student profiles show practice, weak concepts and recent work in one place; nightly early-warning signals flag engagement dropping or scores slipping per group; students ask doubts, the AI drafts an answer, and the teacher replies, corrects or takes it to class. That is the loop the programme teaches, and the teacher portal is free for every teacher.

Partly. Every student gets the free basics — homework, quizzes, submissions, doubts and progress. The personal AI tutor is part of the student’s paid AI plan. For the practicum, the school or pilot provisions the practicum class with it, so every teacher’s 10–30 students have the tutor for those weeks; we say this plainly because the programme must not depend on parents buying anything.

No — and a programme that quietly assumed it might would be dishonest. The principle is “AI recommends. Teachers decide.” AI analyses, suggests, personalises, practises, tracks and assists; the teacher diagnoses, guides, challenges, contextualises, motivates and validates. Teachers remain at the centre; AI gives them deeper visibility into every learner. Module 3 is built entirely around this.

We do not claim that. What the programme gives a teacher is a way to see, for named students and named concepts, what was weak, what was done and what changed on reassessment — their own evidence, in their own class. Teachers’ before/after numbers are theirs to report; the example figures in our materials are labelled illustrative. We do not publish outcome claims about the product.