AI New Zealand Certify

For New Zealand secondary schools

AI at Work Foundations, free for your school

Give your staff and senior students the same course everyone else takes, at no charge: self-paced lessons, quizzes and practical exercises on their own work, then a written final assessment that a person reads and decides. Those who pass earn a verifiable certificate from AI New Zealand.

About the course: AI at Work Foundations.

Who it suits

The course is written for people in work, about using AI well in their own work. It suits senior students best, around 16 and 17 years old. Your school decides which students take part, and can invite students of any age.

Teachers take it first: a teacher completes the course and passes the final assessment, which AI New Zealand assesses, before they can assess students or lead a group.

Open your school's account

  1. Find your school and enter your school email address.
  2. Enter the 8-digit code we email you. Your account admin opens straight away, and you confirm our agreement for schools.
  3. We let your school office know, and a member of our team checks the account and accepts it.
  4. Add your logo and a welcome message, then share your school's page with staff and students.

One account per school. Use an email address on your school's own domain: the one in the Ministry of Education's directory of schools. Read the agreement for schools first.

Secondary and composite schools in the Ministry of Education's directory of schools.

The list of schools comes from the Ministry of Education's Directory of Educational Institutions, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

What a School account gives you

A person assesses every final assessment

AI New Zealand assesses your staff. Staff who have completed the course can then be nominated to assess your students, using the same published standard and assessment steps as our own assessors.

Your school's own page

Your logo and colours, and a welcome message for your students. Share the link and they start from there.

Sign in with a school email

Staff and students on your school's email domain sign in with an 8-digit code we email them. There are no passwords to manage.

Your AI guidelines, applied

Upload your school's AI policy or guidelines. Once confirmed, it becomes an extra criterion in the final assessment, and students can read it in the course.

Facilitated groups

Staff who have completed the course can lead it with a group or a class, discussion first, at no charge.

The same certificate

Students and staff who pass earn the same verifiable certificate of completion from AI New Zealand as everyone else. It is not NCEA and carries no credits.