What does each platform’s fine print say about bots and AI agents?
Each row quotes the clause word for word from the vendor’s own page, with the section it sits in and the date the document shows. When one publisher’s terms cover several platforms, they share a row. The table covers every platform and LMS we write about on this site.
Download the table as CSV (33 rows, one per platform per document, with yes/no columns for whether each quoted clause mentions agents, browser extensions, doing or submitting work, and login sharing).
| Platform | Publisher and document | What it says (verbatim) | Date shown and checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canvas LMS | Instructure Acceptable Use Policy Sharing Your Content (list of things not to do) | “access, search, or create accounts for the Service by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, "scraping" or creating accounts in bulk)” “share your API tokens, login, password, or other access credentials for the Service with any third party” | Effective August 12, 2025 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| McGraw Hill Connect McGraw Hill SmartBook ALEKS | McGraw Hill LLC Terms of Use (linked from the ALEKS sign-in page too) Section 5, Restrictions on Use, (v) and (vii) | “use, install, permit, grant permission to, or enable any third party software, AI agent, AI-enabled browser, browser extension, or other automated or AI-powered software, website, tool, or mechanism to access, read, navigate, interact with, or take actions within the Services or the McGraw Hill Content on behalf of any person, including but not limited to, to view, complete, answer, or submit any assessment, assignment, or other activity, unless otherwise authorized in writing by McGraw Hill” “share with or disclose to a third party any passwords or login credentials for accessing the Services or otherwise permit or grant a third party access to the Services on your behalf” | Last updated October 16, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Cengage MindTap WebAssign | Cengage Learning Terms of Service for Cengage Higher Education Platforms, Student Version Limited License and Restrictions on Use | “Access (or attempt to access) any part of the Services or Content through any automated means (including use of scrapers, scripts, robots, spiders, or web crawlers), or in any way circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Services” “Use any content, data, or text in any form in the Services to text or data mine, or to develop or train any application, software, code, or data models, such as ChatGPT or other similar tools.” | Last updated November 2025 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Pearson MyLab & Mastering MyMathLab (MyLab Math) | Pearson Acceptable Use Policy (part of Pearson’s Terms of Service) Prohibited Uses of Services (Technical & Security) Terms of Use Copyright and Trademark Notices | “Use automated means (including bots, scrapers, spiders, agents, or similar tools) to access or extract any portion of the Services or Materials without permission.” “Misuse accounts, including impersonation or credential sharing.” Terms of Use: “Use of robots, bots, spiders, crawlers, scripts, code, software, or any manual or automatic device, program, tool, algorithm, process, or methodology designed to data mine or scrape the material, content, data, or information from the Services, or otherwise use, access, acquire, copy, collect, or monitor the material, content, data, or information from the Services using automated means and without the prior written permission of Pearson is strictly prohibited.” | Last revised July 31, 2026 Terms of Use: Last update December 15, 2023 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Macmillan Achieve | Macmillan Learning Terms of Use No Framing; Usage Rules | “Use of manual or automated devices or other processes to "crawl" or "spider" any part of our websites is strictly prohibited.” “Not to access or use any Services or part thereof if the institution or university with which you are affiliated prohibits or restricts such access or use or otherwise issues policies and/or guidelines which would be violated by your access or use.” | Last updated April 1, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| myBusinessCourse | Sage Publications Terms of Use Section 6, Use Restrictions | “You may not develop, support, or use software, devices, scripts, robots, crawlers, browser extensions, plug-ins, screen capture tools, automation tools, or any other means or processes to scrape, copy, extract, monitor, modify the appearance of, or automate interactions with the Services or any content therein, except as expressly permitted by Sage in writing.” “sign-in only under your own username and password and not disclose your password to anyone” | No date shown Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Packback | Packback Terms of Use Section 5, Consent; Conduct, (D) | “You may not use automated web queries (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity in connection with the Packback Platform) to access the Packback Platform or copy any content or information on the Packback Platform.” | No date shown Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Top Hat | Top Hat User Agreement Section 7, User Obligations, (g) and (r) | “inquire about, engage in, or aid or assist anyone with any form of academic dishonesty or violations of academic integrity policies or other conduct policies your Institution, including without limitation completing assignments or projects, writing papers or essays, or taking (or helping take) quizzes or examinations on someone’s behalf” “not permit any third party to use your username and password to access your User Account or the Products” | Updated as of July 7, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| zyBooks | zyBooks, a Wiley brand Terms of Use Specific Prohibited Uses | “Using any automated means for making submissions to the Site or Services and posting an automated means for making submissions to the Site or Services” “Impersonating another person or allowing another person to use the Site or Services using your account name and password” | Effective November 7, 2025 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| IXL | IXL Learning Terms of Service Section 1, The Service | “You will not use, allow, enable, or cause the deployment of an Agent (i.e., any software or service that takes autonomous or semi-autonomous action on behalf of, or at the instruction of, any person or entity) to access, use, or interact with the Service.” “You agree that you will not provide administrator, teacher or student login credentials to any third party or otherwise allow any third party to access the Service.” | Effective and last updated September 30, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Khan Academy | Khan Academy Help Center: What’s allowed and not allowed under Khan Academy’s Terms of Service? Sections 2 and 4, “Don’t” lists | “Use Khan Academy to cheat or encourage academic dishonesty” “Use scraping tools, bots, or other tech to copy or extract data from our site” | Article updated January 27, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Edpuzzle | Edpuzzle Terms of Service Use Restrictions, User Responsibilities | “You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access the Service, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission.” | Last updated July 6, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| DeltaMath | DeltaMath Terms of Service Use License, (ii) | “use any automated system, including but not limited to “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to the DeltaMath servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional online web browser” | Effective December 12, 2024 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| i-Ready | Curriculum Associates i-Ready Digital Products Terms and Conditions of Use (an agreement with the school) Section 7, Limitations on Use, (e) and (h) | “use any features or functionalities of the Digital Products with external applications, scripts, or code that may interfere with the operation of the Digital Products or pose a security risk” “engage in scraping, data mining, or automated extraction of CA’s content within the Digital Products” | Last updated July 17, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Quizizz (now Wayground) | Wayground Terms and Conditions of Use Prohibited Content and Activities | “any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to create or post Content” “sharing your account credentials with another person, using the account, username, or password of another user at any time, or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account” | Updated June 9, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Big Ideas Math | Big Ideas Learning BigIdeasMath.com Terms of Use User Conduct | “use or attempt to use any "deep-link," "scraper," "robot," "bot," "spider," "data mining," "computer code" or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of this Site, any data or content found on or accessed through this Site, or any other Big Ideas Learning information without our prior written consent” | Updated September 10, 2021 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Perusall | Perusall LLC Terms of Service Acceptable Use and Conduct/User Restrictions, (ii) | “access or search or attempt to access or search the Service by any means (automated or non-automated) other than through the currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Perusall (and only pursuant to these Terms)” “violates any school or other applicable policy, including those related to cheating or ethics” | Last updated February 26, 2025 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Norton InQuizitive | W. W. Norton & Company Terms of Use License to Use, Access, and Link to the Sites, (iv) | “gather, obtain, use, access or otherwise copy any part of the Sites or Site Content using any bot, spider, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software or any other automatic device, utility or manual process of any kind” | Effective December 19, 2023 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Apex Learning | Apex Learning Code of Conduct for Apex Learning Customer Sites Use of Apex Learning content | “you agree not to use any automated means, including, without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, or copy any part of the content” | No date shown Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Edgenuity (Imagine Edgenuity) | Imagine Learning End User Terms of Service, version 1.0 (linked from the Edgenuity sign-in page’s privacy link) Section 3.3, Acceptable Use Policy, (c) | “use any technology, code, or other method to automatically skip content or answer questions provided through the Services. The building, use, or sharing of any such technology, code, or other methodology is strictly prohibited.” | Last revised January 1, 2022 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Carnegie Learning MATHia | Carnegie Learning Terms of Use (cover its sites that link to them) Section 9, standards of conduct | “Access the Sites using any unauthorized “robot,” “spider,” “scraper” or other data mining technology or automated means (except as may be a result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage).” | Updated and effective February 13, 2026 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Kognity | Kognity Terms and Conditions of Use (2025:1) Section 4.1, Acceptable use, (d) and (e) | “access the Service by any means other than through the interfaces that are provided by us” “use, or allow anyone else to use, the Service in any unauthorized manner, including through time-sharing or use of shared logins” | Version 2025:1; no day shown Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Savvas Realize | Savvas Learning Company savvas.com Terms of Use (website only; they say they do not govern product licensing) User License, (ii) | “gather, obtain, use, access or otherwise copy any part of the Site by using any bot, spider, crawler, spy ware, engine, device, software or any other automatic device, utility or manual process of any kind” | Last update March 10, 2025 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Blackboard Learn Ultra | Blackboard (Blackboard T&L, LLC) Terms of Use Section 4.B, Acceptable use, (iii) and (xv) | “permit another person to use a Product under your name or on your behalf” “use any automated system, including without limitation "robots", "spiders", or "offline readers" to access a Product in a manner that sends more request messages to the Product than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time.” | No date shown Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| D2L Brightspace | D2L Corporation Brightspace End-User License Agreement Section 5, Credentials; Section 6, Grant of License, (e) | “You must keep your Account and Credentials confidential and not authorize any third party to access or use the Service on your behalf, unless D2L provides an approved mechanism for that.” “to use any robot, spider or other automatic program or device, or manual process to monitor, copy, summarize, or otherwise extract information from the Product or Service or the Data in whole or in part” | Last modified July 18, 2023 Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| Moodle | Moodle (open source; your school runs the site) No vendor terms for students | Moodle is open-source software your school or its host runs. Moodle’s documentation describes a policies tool that lets a site’s administrators require users to accept site policies when they sign on, so your school’s Moodle site sets the rules. Source. | n/a Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
| WeBWorK | The WeBWorK Project (open source; your school runs the site) No vendor terms for students | The WeBWorK Project’s site describes WeBWorK as “an open-source online homework system for STEM courses” and links no terms of use for students. Your school’s and instructor’s rules apply. Source. | n/a Checked Oct 20, 2026 |
“No date shown” means we found no last-updated or effective date on the page. Several documents also say that a school’s own contract with the vendor takes priority; that is covered in the school section below.
What do the clauses have in common?
Most of the wording targets bots, scripts and scraping. The newest wording speaks to software that does the coursework itself. Grouped by what the quoted words cover:
- Doing the work. McGraw Hill names tools that “view, complete, answer, or submit” an assignment. zyBooks bars “any automated means for making submissions.” Imagine Learning, which makes Edgenuity, bars any method to “automatically skip content or answer questions.” Top Hat bars helping anyone with academic dishonesty, including “completing assignments or projects” on “someone’s behalf.”
- Agents by name. McGraw Hill (“AI agent”), IXL (“Agent”), Pearson (“agents”) and Apex Learning (“agents, robots, scripts, or spiders”).
- Browser extensions by name. Only McGraw Hill and Sage’s myBusinessCourse, which also lists “plug-ins, screen capture tools, automation tools.”
- Bots and crawlers in general. Cengage, Pearson’s Terms of Use, Macmillan Learning, Packback, Edpuzzle, Big Ideas Learning, Norton, Carnegie Learning, Savvas, D2L and Khan Academy use older wording about robots, spiders, scrapers and automated access.
- Rate limits. DeltaMath and Blackboard bar automated systems only when they send more requests than “a human can reasonably produce” in the same time.
- Approved interfaces only. Instructure, Perusall and Kognity bar access by any means other than the interfaces they provide.
- Your login. Instructure, McGraw Hill, Pearson, Sage, Top Hat, zyBooks, IXL, Wayground, Kognity, Blackboard and D2L bar sharing your login or letting someone else use your account.
- Training AI on their content. McGraw Hill, Cengage, Pearson, Curriculum Associates (i-Ready), zyBooks, Khan Academy, Norton, Carnegie Learning, Kognity and Sage also bar putting their content into AI tools or using it to train AI models.
Several leave a door open with permission: McGraw Hill and Sage “in writing,” Edpuzzle with “prior permission,” and Big Ideas Learning with “prior written consent.” McGraw Hill also says its restrictions “do not apply to assistive technologies (such as screen readers) used by individuals with disabilities to the extent necessary to access the Services.”
What changed in 2026?
Three documents show a dated change to their wording on automated tools or agents this year. We compared each live page with the Internet Archive’s earlier copies of the same address.
| Document | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| McGraw Hill Terms of Use | Version dated May 8, 2024 (archived January 1, 2026): no one may “use any robot, spider, other automatic device or program or manual process to access, monitor, copy or reproduce the Services or the McGraw Hill Content.” | April 24, 2026: the list adds “agent, artificial intelligence (AI),” and item (iv) adds a ban on choosing to “grant permission to or enable any third party software, browser extension, agent, or other mechanism designed to access or interact with the Services and/or the McGraw Hill Content including assessment materials.” October 16, 2026: clause 5(v) names “AI agent, AI-enabled browser, browser extension” and adds “view, complete, answer, or submit,” clause 5(vii) covers sharing passwords or login credentials, and the assistive-technology exception appears. |
| IXL Terms of Service | Effective April 21, 2026 (archived September 27, 2026): bars sharing login credentials, with no sentence about agents. | September 30, 2026: adds the sentence barring any “Agent,” right after the rule on login credentials. |
| Pearson Acceptable Use Policy | Last revised December 15, 2023 (archived July 18, 2026): bars any “"deep-link," "scraper," "robot," "bot," "spider," "data mining," "computer code," or any other automated software device,” and any use against “the academic rules or policies of your Institution.” | July 31, 2026: a rewrite lists “bots, scrapers, spiders, agents, or similar tools.” The new text no longer mentions your institution’s academic rules. |
Eight more documents in the table carry a 2026 date: Khan Academy’s help article (January 27), Carnegie Learning (February 13), Macmillan Learning (April 1), Wayground (June 9), Edpuzzle (July 6), Top Hat (July 7), i-Ready (July 17), and Kognity’s US school subscription terms, labeled US 2026:1. We did not compare those with earlier versions, so we make no claim about what changed in them.
How do school policies add to these?
A platform’s terms and your school’s academic-integrity policy are separate sets of rules, and both apply to you. Several of these documents point to the school directly:
- Instructure bars using Canvas in a way that is “prohibited by the policies, rules, or procedures of the party that has provided you with access to the Service (such as your school’s academic integrity policy or your employer’s ethics policies).”
- Macmillan Learning says not to use its services at all if your institution “prohibits or restricts such access or use.”
- Top Hat counts “violations of academic integrity policies or other conduct policies” of your institution, and says it may “report any breach of this Agreement to your Institution.”
- McGraw Hill says it “may, but is not obligated to, report any such violation to your educational institution.”
- Apex Learning says breaking its Code of Conduct “may result in revoked access as well as consequences determined by your school or district administrators.”
- Perusall bars posting content that “violates any school or other applicable policy, including those related to cheating or ethics.”
Some documents give way to a school’s contract. McGraw Hill says a school’s “separate written agreement” with “substantially similar Terms of Use” governs instead. i-Ready’s terms are an agreement between Curriculum Associates and the school or district, and the Brightspace license points to “the applicable terms of use and service of Brightspace service provided by your institution.” Moodle and WeBWorK are open-source systems your school runs, so their rules come from the school; Moodle’s documentation describes a tool that lets site administrators require users to accept site policies when they sign on.
Your instructor’s syllabus and assignment instructions can be stricter still. If a course says no AI help, a platform’s silence on the subject does not change that. Our post Is using an AI homework bot cheating? looks at how schools draw that line.
Where Silent Student fits
We make Silent Student, a desktop app for Mac and Windows from El Dorado Ignition LLC that works assignments on the platforms in this table. In our reading, clauses like McGraw Hill’s 5(v), IXL’s Agent rule and zyBooks’ ban on automated submissions reach it, and it does not take proctored exams.
Section 5 of our Terms (effective October 19, 2026) says: “You are solely responsible for complying with your institution’s academic-integrity policies and the terms of service of every LMS, courseware platform, or other service that Silent Student automates.” Section 7 adds: “Changes, outages, restrictions, or enforcement by Canvas, D2L Brightspace, external courseware, AI model providers, or Stripe may affect the service.”
Questions people ask
Does McGraw Hill allow AI tools in Connect, SmartBook and ALEKS?
Not third-party ones, unless McGraw Hill gives written permission. Its Terms of Use, last updated October 16, 2026, bar any “AI agent, AI-enabled browser, browser extension” or other automated tool from acting in its services, including to “view, complete, answer, or submit” an assignment. McGraw Hill’s own built-in AI tools are covered by a separate “AI Features” section.
What is Pearson’s AI policy for MyLab and Mastering?
Pearson’s Acceptable Use Policy, revised July 31, 2026, bars using “automated means (including bots, scrapers, spiders, agents, or similar tools)” without permission. It also bars using Pearson materials to “train, fine-tune or ground machine-learning or AI systems.” The policy is part of Pearson’s Terms of Service.
What does Cengage say about AI tools in MindTap and WebAssign?
Cengage’s student Terms, last updated November 2025, bar access “through any automated means (including use of scrapers, scripts, robots, spiders, or web crawlers).” They also bar using Cengage content to “develop or train any application, software, code, or data models, such as ChatGPT or other similar tools.”
Does Canvas have an AI policy?
Instructure’s Acceptable Use Policy for Canvas, effective August 12, 2025, does not name AI tools. It bars access “by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces,” sharing your login with “any third party,” and any use your school’s academic integrity policy prohibits. Whether AI help is allowed in a course is up to your school and instructor.
Does IXL allow AI agents?
No. IXL’s Terms of Service, effective September 30, 2026, say you will not use, allow or enable an “Agent,” defined as “any software or service that takes autonomous or semi-autonomous action on behalf of, or at the instruction of, any person or entity.”
Can a platform tell my school if I break its terms?
Some say they can. McGraw Hill says it “may, but is not obligated to, report any such violation to your educational institution,” and Top Hat says it may “report any breach of this Agreement to your Institution.” Your school can also act under its own academic-integrity policy.
Is this page legal advice?
No. We quote each document and say where it sits. We are not lawyers. Read the full terms for your platform, and your school’s policy, before you decide.
Sources
All fetched and checked October 20, 2026. Internet Archive copies are listed with the date the Archive captured them.
- Instructure, Acceptable Use Policy
- McGraw Hill LLC, Terms of Use (linked from the ALEKS sign-in page too)
- Cengage Learning, Terms of Service for Cengage Higher Education Platforms, Student Version
- Pearson, Acceptable Use Policy (part of Pearson’s Terms of Service)
- Pearson, Terms of Use
- Macmillan Learning, Terms of Use
- Sage Publications, Terms of Use
- Packback, Terms of Use
- Top Hat, User Agreement
- zyBooks, a Wiley brand, Terms of Use
- IXL Learning, Terms of Service
- Khan Academy, Help Center: What’s allowed and not allowed under Khan Academy’s Terms of Service?
- Edpuzzle, Terms of Service
- DeltaMath, Terms of Service
- Curriculum Associates, i-Ready Digital Products Terms and Conditions of Use (an agreement with the school)
- Wayground, Terms and Conditions of Use
- Big Ideas Learning, BigIdeasMath.com Terms of Use
- Perusall LLC, Terms of Service
- W. W. Norton & Company, Terms of Use
- Apex Learning, Code of Conduct for Apex Learning Customer Sites
- Imagine Learning, End User Terms of Service, version 1.0 (linked from the Edgenuity sign-in page’s privacy link)
- Carnegie Learning, Terms of Use (cover its sites that link to them)
- Kognity, Terms and Conditions of Use (2025:1)
- Savvas Learning Company, savvas.com Terms of Use (website only; they say they do not govern product licensing)
- Blackboard (Blackboard T&L, LLC), Terms of Use
- D2L Corporation, Brightspace End-User License Agreement
- Moodle Docs 4.5, Policies
- The WeBWorK Project, home page
- ALEKS sign-in page, which links McGraw Hill’s Terms of Use
- Imagine Learning, Privacy and End User Terms of Service hub (linked from the Edgenuity sign-in page)
- Kognity, Legal (subscription terms US 2026:1 and earlier versions)
- McGraw Hill Terms of Use, Internet Archive copy of January 1, 2026 (version dated May 8, 2024)
- McGraw Hill Terms of Use, Internet Archive copy of October 5, 2026 (version dated April 24, 2026)
- IXL Terms of Service, Internet Archive copy of September 27, 2026 (effective April 21, 2026)
- Pearson Acceptable Use Policy, Internet Archive copy of July 18, 2026 (last revised December 15, 2023)
How this page was made. On October 20, 2026 we opened each vendor page listed above, copied its clause on automated tools, agents, browser extensions or login sharing, and checked every quote against the page’s text with a script. Section names and dates are as each document shows them. For the 2026 changes we compared the live page with the Internet Archive’s earlier copies of the same address. We wrote the page with AI assistance. The CSV version is published under our Terms; see our editorial policy for how we source pages.
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