1. The service
Pedagrade reviews e-learning course content you provide against established learning-science frameworks and accessibility guidelines, and returns a scored report with suggested fixes. Its output is professional guidance to help you improve a course, not a guarantee. In particular, an accessibility review here is a design-and-content review and is not a certification of legal or technical conformance (such as WCAG or ADA compliance) and is not legal advice. You are responsible for your own compliance decisions.
2. Accounts
Some features require an account. You are responsible for keeping your login secure and for activity under your account, and you agree to provide accurate information.
3. Acceptable use
You agree not to: submit content you do not have the right to submit; use Pedagrade for unlawful purposes; attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse-engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the service; or resell or misrepresent it. We may limit or suspend use that violates these terms or threatens the service.
4. Your content
You keep ownership of the course content you submit. You grant us a limited license to process that content solely to provide the service to you, on our own private AI. As stated in our Privacy Policy, Pedagrade never sends your content to a third-party AI provider and never uses it to train a model. When you use Pedagrade inside ChatGPT or Claude, your chat is handled by that assistant's provider under its own terms, and Pedagrade receives only the text the assistant sends to it. You represent that you have the rights to submit the content you provide.
5. Free trial and the Individual plan
- Free week. Every new account receives one free week of the Individual plan. No payment card is required. The week begins with the account's first check, not at sign-up. When the week ends, access returns to a free account unless you subscribe.
- A free account includes one whole-course review, which shows the score, the verdict, and the top 3 fixes, plus 10 lesson and quiz checks. These are totals for the account, and reviews and checks used during the free week count toward them.
- Lesson and quiz checks: a free account includes 10 in all, run from the web, ChatGPT or Claude, or the Check button in Word and Google Docs; after that they are included with the Individual plan, up to 60 a day. Checking while you design (Pedagrade underlining your document as you write in Word or Google Docs) is part of the free week and the Individual plan.
- The Individual plan is a paid subscription, currently $9.99 per month or $99 per year, billed through Stripe. It renews automatically until you cancel. Your price stays the same for as long as your subscription stays active. Team and higher education plans are set by separate agreement.
- You can cancel anytime; your Individual plan access continues through the end of the current billing period.
- To keep reviews fast for everyone, full reviews on the Individual plan are limited to 50 a day. Re-running a review on unchanged text is free and doesn't count.
- If a payment is disputed with your bank, what it paid for is suspended: a course pass or reviews stop working until the dispute is resolved, and a subscription is canceled.
- Purchases made before October 19, 2026. The course pass and review packs are no longer sold. A course pass bought before October 19, 2026 covers up to 30 full reviews of one course within 90 days, starting when it is first applied to that course, up to 50 a day. Review packs bought before October 8, 2026 keep their remaining reviews.
- Prices and features may change; we will give reasonable notice of changes that affect an active subscription.
- Refunds. If you're not happy, email support@pedagrade.com within 14 days of a payment and we will refund it in full.
6. Intellectual property
Pedagrade, including its rubric, software, design, and content, is owned by Black Beacon Studios LLC. These terms do not grant you any rights in it beyond using the service.
7. Disclaimers
The service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant that review or While you design results are complete, accurate, or fit for a particular purpose, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. You are responsible for reviewing and deciding what to act on.
8. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Black Beacon Studios LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim.
9. Termination
You may stop using Pedagrade and cancel your subscription at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these terms or to protect the service. Sections that by their nature should survive (ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability) will survive termination.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms; we will update the date above and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
12. Contact
Questions about these terms? Email support@pedagrade.com.