For instructors

Availa is a study tool. A student records a lecture on their phone, and Availa turns it into a transcript, notes, and practice questions for that student. It schedules review of the material they are most likely to forget. It is the recording-and-study workflow students already do with a voice memo app and a chatbot, in one place.

Always the student, never Availa. The app cannot start a recording on its own, and it does not run in the background of a class. Before a student's first recording we tell them that Massachusetts and many other states require everyone being recorded to know about it, that Boston College and most schools additionally require the instructor's permission, and we ask them to confirm they have that permission. We record the time they confirmed. The obligation to ask is the student's; we make it easy for them to ask by giving them a ready-to-send message, and we tell them to stop if you say no.

The student who made it. Audio and transcripts are private to that student; they are not published, not indexed by search engines, and not shared with anyone, classmates included. A student may choose to share the notes and practice questions Availa generates with classmates in the same section, but never the audio or the transcript, and never with anyone outside the class. Students may not distribute recordings, and our Terms say so.

• Sell, license, or publish recordings or transcripts.
• Use them to train AI models. The transcription and AI providers we use do not train on data sent through their business APIs.
• Identify speakers or store voice profiles. Speaker labels inside a lecture are temporary and never matched across recordings.
• Build a profile of any instructor or evaluate teaching.
• Contact instructors on a student's behalf. When a student sends you a note about recording, it comes from their own email account.

Tell your students, in the syllabus or in class, and they are obliged to comply; Availa also tells them so. If you believe a student has recorded your class without the permission your school requires, email matthew@availalabs.com with the course and, if you know it, the student's name. We will respond, and we will remove the recording and its transcript if the student cannot show they had permission. Recordings students delete themselves are removed from our systems, including backups, within 30 days.

Anything not answered here: matthew@availalabs.com. Our full Privacy Policy is at /privacy and our Terms at /terms.