ACIF: Practical guidance for AI content integrity in education
ACIF is Harmony Digital Consults’ AI Content Integrity Framework: a practical resource for schools and education organisations developing transparent, educator-led approaches to AI-assisted work and academic integrity.
Important: ACIF is not a tool for automatically proving whether a learner used AI or for making disciplinary decisions without human review.
Educator-led AI Integrity
ACIF supports schools in establishing clear expectations for learners and maintaining an evidence-informed review process rather than relying on automatic accusations. It emphasizes educator-led judgement, transparent processes, age-appropriate implementation, and the privacy-conscious handling of student information.
Built and maintained by Harmony Digital Consults Ltd, ACIF helps institutional leaders draft policy and supports teaching staff in safely handling the transition to AI-assisted learning.
For Schools & Curriculum Leads
A practical policy and workflow your academic team can adopt — risk tiers for every content type, age-band checks for nursery through pre-tertiary, and ready-to-use gate checklists and parental communication templates.
For EdTech Product Teams
Drop-in verification logic for any product that ships AI-generated lessons, quizzes, or learning paths. Pipeline gates, hallucination registry schema, and the FACT detection method are all documented and testable.
For Regulators & Publishers
A publishable, auditable standard that maps directly to NERDC curriculum requirements, the NDPA 2023, ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system controls, and the UNESCO GenAI in Education guidance.
ACIF 2.0 Pilot Discussions
Harmony Digital Consults is preparing ACIF 2.0 for controlled pilot discussions with senior secondary schools, school leaders, teachers, counsellors, NGOs, and selected EdTech partners.
What a pilot may include
- A school's current AI-use and academic-integrity context.
- A limited set of classroom or assignment scenarios.
- ACIF guidance/resources for participating educators.
- A small validation set of example scenarios.
- Feedback from participating staff.
- A review of implementation learnings and next steps.
What a pilot should not include
- No automated disciplinary decisions.
- No student profiling or learner surveillance.
- No bulk upload of identifiable student work to unverified systems.
- No use as sole evidence of misconduct.
- No guarantee of detecting AI use or preventing academic-integrity concerns.
Institutional Safeguards
Participating institutions are expected to adhere to practical baseline safeguards:
- Establish clear, age-appropriate AI-use expectations.
- Inform staff, learners, and families where appropriate.
- Keep educators responsible for reviewing context and evidence.
- Minimise personal data.
- Avoid using unverified automated outputs as the sole basis for high-stakes decisions.
- Maintain an understandable review and escalation process.
Evidence & Feedback Framework
Harmony intends to learn from pilot discussions to improve implementation quality. Feedback may cover:
- Whether AI-use expectations are understandable to teachers and learners.
- Whether the guidance is usable in lesson planning and assignment design.
- Whether the illustrative scenarios feel relevant to subject teachers.
- Whether educators can explain review steps consistently.
- Whether data-minimisation safeguards are practical.
Note: Any future pilot data-collection process would require separate, documented agreement and appropriate privacy review. Harmony does not collect student-level behavioural data, disciplinary records, or sensitive data.
Pilot Validation Cases
Review our 14 illustrative Senior Secondary validation cases across Mathematics, Sciences, Economics, Government, English, and Computer Studies.
View Validation PackWhat's Inside ACIF v1.0
Four operational systems that together make AI content classroom-ready.
4 Risk Tiers
Low, Medium, High, and Critical classifications for every piece of AI-generated content — from supplementary reading to assessable curriculum. Each tier carries its own review depth, sign-off authority, and minimum verification gates.
6 Age Bands
Nursery, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Junior Secondary, Senior Secondary, and Pre-Tertiary — each with explicit reading-level, content-sensitivity, and pedagogical-fit checks, calibrated against the NERDC curriculum framework.
Five-Gate Verification Pipeline
Source & Provenance → Factual Verification → Age & Curriculum Fit → Bias & Safety Review → Final Educator Sign-Off. No AI-generated content reaches students until every applicable gate is closed.
FACT Hallucination Detection
A four-step method — Flag, Audit, Confirm, Track — for catching invented facts, fabricated citations, and confident-but-wrong claims in AI output, with a hallucination log schema teams can adopt directly.
Templates & Registries
Gate checklist, AI tool assessment, hallucination log (CSV), content registry (CSV), and parental communication template — everything a school needs to run ACIF without building from scratch.
Live Web Tool
A browser-based companion with six modules — Dashboard, Risk Classifier, Verification Pipeline, Age Checker (with Flesch-Kincaid reading-level scorer), Hallucination Log, and Content Registry — to run ACIF on real content in real time. Free, no signup, installable as a PWA, works offline, with dark mode and Cmd/Ctrl+K quick search.
Mapped to the Standards That Matter
ACIF doesn't replace existing regulation — it operationalises it for AI-generated learning content.
NERDC Curriculum
Age-band and subject-fit checks reference the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council curriculum structure for basic and senior secondary education.
NDPA 2023
Data-handling, minor-consent, and parental-communication templates follow the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 requirements for processing learner data inside AI workflows.
ISO/IEC 42001
Risk classification, pipeline gates, and audit logging map to the AI Management System controls from ISO/IEC 42001, giving institutions an evidence trail for AI governance audits.
UNESCO GenAI in Education
Aligned with UNESCO's guidance for generative AI in education — human oversight, age-appropriate use, and transparency with learners, parents, and regulators.
How the Live Tool Handles Your Data
ACIF is a single-user, privacy-first tool. Knowing where your data lives is part of the framework.
Browser-Only Storage
Every entry you log — institution profile, content registry, hallucination log, settings — lives only inside the browser on the device you are using. Nothing is uploaded to a server, and Harmony Digital Consults cannot see your records.
Single-User by Design
Two people opening the tool on different devices — even at the same school — will each keep their own separate dataset. There is no shared registry, no live collaboration, and no chance of two users overwriting one another’s work.
Portable JSON Backups
Use Export JSON Backup on the Dashboard to move your work between devices, hand it to a colleague, or archive it for audit. Restore replaces the current dataset; Clear All Data wipes the browser store after a two-step confirmation.
What To Watch For
Clearing browser data, using private/incognito mode, switching browsers, or uninstalling the PWA will erase your local ACIF data. Always export a JSON backup before any of these — and before handing the device to someone else.
Need a shared, multi-user registry across staff or schools? The current ACIF tool is intentionally single-user and offline-capable. A hosted, multi-user edition with accounts, role-based access, and a shared audit trail is on our roadmap for institutions and EdTech partners. Discuss an ACIF pilot if you’d like early access.
Three Ways to Adopt ACIF
Pick the path that fits your institution.
1. Run the Live Tool
Open the free web tool, classify a piece of AI-generated content, walk it through the Five-Gate pipeline, and decide whether to release it — all in your browser. Single-user, no signup, your data never leaves your device.
Launch Tool2. Read the Framework
Download the 41-page PDF or read the full Markdown text on GitHub. Pair it with the implementation guide, FAQ, and glossary to brief your academic and IT teams.
Download PDF3. Fork & Integrate
EdTech teams can fork the repository, embed the verification logic in their product, and adapt the templates. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribution and share-alike apply.
Open RepositoryCommon Questions About ACIF
What does ACIF stand for?
It stands for Advanced Corporate Identity Framework, designed for professional educational institutions and EdTechs.
Does it include website templates?
Yes, ACIF provides brand guidelines alongside ready-to-use templates for portals, websites, and official communications.
Is it suitable for small schools?
While beneficial for any institution, it is particularly tailored for tertiary institutions, school groups, and growing EdTech companies looking to standardize their brand.