Using MAP: accounts, acceptable use, and school agreements
This article summarizes how MAP expects accounts to be used and how school or district agreements relate to the product. The public Terms of Use and Privacy Notice are the stable URLs districts can cite. None of these pages is a substitute for a signed Data Privacy Agreement (DPA).
Classroom privacy practices are described in Data privacy: how MAP handles school and student information. A category inventory is in What information MAP collects.
Educational use
- MAP is for instructional assessment: authoring, delivering, and grading math assessments, plus related course operations
- Accounts are personal — do not share passwords or sell, rent, or transfer access to others
- Do not scrape, harvest, or bulk-export other users’ data outside the tools MAP provides for your role
- Do not use MAP to send spam, malware, or content unrelated to legitimate classroom or school operations
How people join
- Teachers register for a Teacher account (subject to site availability; classroom teaching uses a purchased 12-month course instance)
- Students and parents join by invitation from a teacher or authorized course manager—not by open public signup for those roles
- Email verification is required before an account is fully activated when MAP asks for a verified address
Student data and advertising
- MAP uses account and course data to run the instructional service (delivery, grading, notifications, support)
- MAP does not sell student personal information for marketing lists
- MAP does not use student data for targeted advertising inside the product
When a district has a signed DPA
If your Local Education Agency (LEA) and MAP execute a Data Privacy Agreement (including state NDPA templates), that DPA controls treatment of covered student or LEA data for that relationship—even where it differs from this notice or other public MAP help articles.
Send DPA / NDPA packets through Contact Us. Include your district, state, and the form your procurement team uses.
Records, offboarding, and corrections
- To request an export of classroom grades and student work, or optional deletion when a teacher or school leaves MAP, follow District data requests and teacher offboarding
- Parents who need access to grades should use the school-issued parent invite for that course—not a shared student password
- Parents or students who contact MAP directly about education records are directed to their school; MAP responds to written LEA requests through support
Changes
MAP may update this notice as the product matures. Material changes that affect school agreements are handled with districts that have an active DPA process underway.
FAQ
Is this a formal Terms of Service?
The public Terms of Use is MAP’s acceptable-use notice for early access. Formal DPAs are reviewed separately when a district sends a packet via Contact Us.
What if our district’s DPA conflicts with this article?
The signed DPA controls for that LEA’s covered data.
Where do teachers start an export or deletion?
Contact Us as a signed-in Teacher with purpose District data / offboarding. Details are in District data requests and teacher offboarding.