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. The school records CPD hours; PrepGraph supplies the sheet.

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 “designed around the CBSE 2026-27 training theme” and “designed around the CBSE/NPST professional-development domains” because that is how the content was built; 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.

There are two payers, so there are two answers. The school pays for the programme — the teacher cohort, the leadership session and twelve weeks of implementation support — as the PrepGraph School Programme, with the voice tutor and the teacher portal for the programme classes. Terms for a whole school or a group of schools are quoted in writing, around teacher cohort and student rollout size; standalone teacher cohorts are quoted per cohort. The two public numbers: the tutor your school deploys is the one a parent buys for ₹249 a month, and in a school programme a student’s 90-day term is ₹799 — current prices at prepgraph.com/india/pricing. Start with a 30-minute consultation with your leadership team and you will have a plan with a number in it. The whole offer is laid out on the schools page.

The school pays for the programme: the 25-hour teacher cohort, the leadership session, the twelve weeks of implementation support, and PrepGraph for the programme classes. Parents are asked for nothing by the school on account of this programme, and no teacher’s certification depends on a parent buying anything, because the school provisions the practicum class with the voice tutor for those weeks. Outside a school programme, a parent buys the same tutor for ₹249 a month (Lite, seven-day trial, cancel anytime) at prepgraph.com/india/pricing.

That is available. Modules 1–7 need nothing from PrepGraph — any chat assistant, your own question papers, pen and paper. Module 8 and the four-week practicum run on a live workspace: the teacher portal, and the voice tutor for each teacher’s practicum class, because the loop being taught needs student-level data a general chat assistant does not have. A standalone cohort therefore includes a workspace for those weeks, and teachers who stop before Module 8 hold Level 1 or Level 2 rather than Level 3. Standalone cohorts are quoted per cohort, in writing; tell us the shape of your school.

Five things, all decided before Week 0: a sponsor on the leadership team who attends the Week 0 leadership session and owns the calendar; 15–40 teachers for the cohort; timetable slots for two sessions a week over four weeks, after school hours or on staff-development days; one practicum class per teacher, 10–30 students, provisioned on PrepGraph; and someone — usually the academic coordinator — who owns the CPD record. We supply the templates for the last one. The five are set out in full on the schools page.

By the school’s own evidence, on two levels. Each teacher’s capstone carries before/after mastery on named competencies for one chapter in one class — the teacher’s evidence, in the teacher’s words, presented to leadership in Week 10. And the Teacher Activation Funnel shows how many teachers reached each step of the workflow and how many are still there a term later, read with the sponsor every fortnight during the programme and once a term afterwards. Both are your numbers, from your workspace and your classes, and neither is a claim we make about the product.

Your certified teachers carry on teaching that way — which is why we report the activation funnel a term later rather than a certification count. The school nominates two or three AI Champions who work towards Level 4 by running further classroom interventions, co-facilitating a module and mentoring the next cohort, so the next round does not need PrepGraph staff on site. Nothing further is asked of the school for a certified teacher to keep running the workflow in your own workspace.

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. The school runs and records the DLD; PrepGraph supports the host. 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.

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 voice tutor — English, and Hinglish (Hindi with English technical terms) — 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 comes with the school’s programme.

Through the school. In the School Programme the school provisions PrepGraph’s voice tutor — English, and Hinglish (Hindi with English technical terms) — for every child in the programme classes; a child’s school login is a printed badge and a short PIN, with no email address. Outside a school programme a parent buys the same tutor for ₹249 a month (Lite, seven-day trial, cancel anytime) at prepgraph.com/india/pricing; in a school programme a student’s 90-day term is ₹799. Whichever way a class is provisioned, every student in it gets homework, quizzes, submissions, doubts and progress.

No. 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, and nothing reaches a student or a parent without a teacher’s decision.