AI New Zealand Certify

For Year 12 and 13 students and their teachers

The AI Foundations course is free for Year 12 & 13 Students and Teachers.

AI at Work Foundations gets you ready to use AI well at work, before your first job or alongside it. You learn at your own pace, then write a final assessment on your own work that a person reads and decides. Pass, and you earn a certificate from AI New Zealand that anyone can check online. Through your school, it costs you nothing.

What you learn

What AI is, and where it gets things wrong

What these tools actually are, what they can reach, and how to check their work before you rely on it.

The rules you work inside

Privacy, confidential information and whose knowledge it is, as they apply in New Zealand workplaces.

What stays your job

What to hand to AI, what to keep, and what you sign off as your own.

Practical exercises on your own work

Short tasks you do on real work or study of your own, with feedback as you go.

The certificate is a certificate of completion from AI New Zealand. It is not NCEA and carries no credits.

How you get it

  1. Your school opens a free School account. A teacher or the principal does this.
  2. You go to your school's page and sign in with your school email address. We email you an 8-digit code; there is no password.
  3. You work through the course at your own pace, on your own or with your class.

Your school decides who takes part.

Find your school

See whether your school's account is open.

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

For teachers

Teachers take the course first, also free. AI New Zealand assesses your final assessment. Once you have passed, your school can nominate you to assess your students' final assessments, and you can lead the course with a group or a class.

Open your school's free account