The AI assistant — what to expect
The assistant can be wrong. It reads your timetable,
tasks and reminders to answer questions and to draft entries. Like any
language model it can misread a date, invent detail that sounds
plausible, or answer confidently about something it did not actually
check. Treat what it tells you as a draft to look over, never as the
record.
Check anything that matters before you rely on it.
If a suggestion concerns a class, an exam, a deadline or a meeting with
other people, confirm it against your own timetable. This application is
not a substitute for your institution's official schedule, and where the
two disagree, your institution's is the one that counts.
Nothing is changed without you confirming it. When
the assistant understands a request as a change — adding a class, moving
one, deleting one — it shows you what it understood and waits. You
confirm or discard it. The assistant is not able to write to your
schedule on its own, and the question-answering side of it can only
read.
Your text is sent to an AI provider. To answer you,
what you type is sent to a third-party model provider, together with the
parts of your timetable, tasks and reminders needed to answer it — event
titles and times, your working hours and your timezone. It is sent over
an encrypted connection and is not used to advertise to you. It does
leave this application, so please do not type anything into the
assistant that you would not be willing to send to a third party:
student names, personal details about colleagues, or anything
confidential.
You can avoid it entirely. Every part of
ProfSchedule works without the assistant. If you never open it, nothing
of yours is sent to a model provider.
Your account
You are responsible for what happens under your account, and for
keeping your password to yourself. Please use a real institutional
email address, since colleagues will identify you by it when working
together. Tell us if you think someone else has got into your account.
Accounts belong to people, not to roles. Do not share one between
colleagues: the schedule, the reminders and the work assignments are all
built around a single person's day.
Your data
Your schedule, tasks, reminders and profile are stored so the
application can show them back to you. Colleagues in a shared community
can see the work you share with them there — that is the point of it —
and administrators of your college can see the members of their own
college. Nobody else can read your personal timetable.
You can delete your account, and doing so removes your schedule,
tasks and reminders with it. Backups may keep a copy for a short period
before they roll over.
Advertising
This application shows advertisements supplied by Google AdSense.
Google and its partners set cookies in your browser and use them to
choose which advertisements to show you, which may take account of your
previous browsing on other sites. That is a third party operating in
your browser, and it is separate from everything described above about
your schedule.
Your timetable is not given to advertisers. Your
events, tasks, reminders, colleagues and the things you type into the
assistant are not shared with Google’s advertising systems, and are not
used to target advertisements at you. What advertisers receive is what
any site with ads on it passes on: your browser, your approximate
location and the page you are on.
You can review and change what Google uses at
myadcenter.google.com, and browser settings or an ad blocker will
stop the advertisements loading without affecting anything else here.
Availability
This is a working application, not a guaranteed service. It may be
unavailable while it is being updated, and reminders depend on your
device, your browser and your network as much as on us. Do not
rely on a reminder from this application as your only warning for
something you cannot afford to miss.
Reasonable use
Please do not attempt to reach other people's data, disrupt the
service for others, or use the assistant to generate anything unlawful
or abusive. Accounts doing so may be suspended.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a way that matters, you will be asked to
read and agree to the new version the next time you sign in. The version
you agreed to is recorded against your account.
For anything about your account, your data, or something the
assistant got wrong, contact the administrator of your college through
the application.
