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    Last updated August 10, 2026

    Responsible Use Guidelines

    How to use Backrow responsibly within whatever AI use policy applies to you. Formerly titled "Academic Integrity Guidelines."

    Introduction

    Backrow is a tool. You are responsible for how you use it.

    Backrow provides AI features that generate, paraphrase, transcribe, and complete coursework style content. Schools have widely varying AI use policies; what is encouraged in one course may be a violation in another. This page summarises what to keep in mind so you use Backrow responsibly within whatever policy applies to you. It is not a substitute for reading your syllabus and your school's policy.

    The binding version of this allocation lives in Terms of Service §2a and §3. This page is the plain-language companion.

    What Backrow Does

    Backrow is a productivity platform. Depending on the tool and your prompts, it can:

    • Transcribe lectures and turn them into notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes, study guides, and mind maps
    • Generate written work (essays, paraphrases, discussion responses, lab reports, code, citations) from your prompts and source material
    • Rewrite AI generated or other text in a style modelled on a writing sample you provide
    • Answer subject matter questions with explanations, worked steps, and references
    • Read content you connect from Google Calendar / Drive / Gmail, Outlook Calendar, and similar services

    Output may contain errors, omissions, or content unsuitable for submission. Review and verify all output before relying on it for any purpose.

    Your School's Policy

    We do not know what your school's AI policy is. We do not enforce it. You do. Three steps cover most situations:

    1. Read your syllabus. Most courses now have an explicit AI use clause. It usually controls.

    2. Ask your instructor when unsure. Email or office hours. Keep the reply; it is your record if there is later a dispute.

    3. Cite AI assistance where required. Many policies allow AI use as long as it is disclosed. "I used Backrow to draft / outline / paraphrase / generate practice questions for X" is a standard form.

    Common Uses

    These are common, generally low risk uses. Whether any specific use is permitted in your course still depends on your school's policy.

    Notes, organisation, and review

    • Recording your own lectures (with instructor permission where required) and transcribing them
    • Generating notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and study guides from your transcripts and uploaded materials
    • Asking the AI tutor to explain a concept, work through a practice problem, or walk you through a derivation
    • Generating practice questions to test yourself before an exam
    • Using AI to proofread your own draft for grammar, clarity, and citations

    Writing tools

    • Using the essay writer to produce a draft you will then edit, restructure, and verify against sources
    • Using the paraphraser to rephrase your own writing more clearly
    • Using the voice matching humanizer to make AI generated output read more like your own writing — useful where AI assisted writing is permitted but you want it to read consistently with your other work

    Writing tools are powerful. Whether you may submit their output as your own work depends entirely on your school's policy. Backrow does not certify any specific use as permitted.

    Rowly, the agent (Max plan)

    Rowly is different from the tools above in one way that matters here: you give him a goal ("get me ready for my business exam on Friday") and he carries out a sequence himself. With your permission he can read your connected accounts — your email, calendar, and file storage — to find the assignment and the rubric, then run the same tools you would have run by hand.

    • Letting Rowly find what is due this week and build revision materials from your own lectures and notes
    • Letting Rowly produce a draft in your own voice so you can see what strong work looks like in your vocabulary, then editing it and verifying it against sources
    • Taking the quiz Rowly sets at the end to check you can actually speak to the material

    An agent doing the steps does not move the responsibility

    Rowly shows you a plan and what it will cost before he does anything, and you approve it. That approval is you deciding to do this work this way. If your course does not permit AI assistance, having an agent carry out the steps rather than doing them yourself does not change the answer — it is still your submission, under your name.

    This is why every draft Rowly produces in your voice is followed by an explanation of what was written and why. It is not a formality. If you cannot explain the work in a viva, a follow up question, or an exam, it is not work you should be submitting, and no tool can fix that for you.

    Rowly never sends an email or books anything on your behalf without showing you exactly what will be sent and waiting for you to press the button.

    Things You Must Not Do (Independently Illegal)

    These are not Backrow rules; they are law.

    The items below are independently illegal regardless of your school's AI policy. Doing them creates legal exposure for you, and using Backrow to do them violates our Terms of Service and may end your account.

    Recording laws

    • Recording another person without the consent required by your jurisdiction (some US states and many countries require all party consent — a felony in some states)
    • Recording classmates in private conversation without their consent
    • Recording an instructor when your institution's policy specifically forbids it

    Copyright

    • Uploading copyrighted textbooks, problem sets, or course materials you do not have permission to copy
    • Reselling, redistributing, or posting copyrighted course materials to Chegg, Course Hero, or similar sites
    • Selling Backrow generated study materials in a way that infringes the underlying course content's copyright

    Use during prohibited assessments

    • Using Backrow during a closed book exam, proctored test, or any assessment where its use is explicitly prohibited by the proctor, instructor, or institution

    What Your School May Treat as a Violation

    These uses are not illegal and Backrow does not prohibit them, but many schools' AI use and academic integrity policies do. Whether they apply to you depends entirely on the policies your school, course, or assignment imposes. Read your syllabus.

    • Submitting AI generated work as your own without the disclosure required by your school
    • Using AI to complete an assignment that is supposed to be done unaided
    • Using AI on a take home exam where the instructor has not permitted it
    • Paraphrasing sources via AI in a way intended to evade plagiarism detection rather than to genuinely rephrase

    Potential consequences from your school can include failing grades, academic probation, suspension, expulsion, loss of scholarships, and a permanent notation on your academic record. Backrow is not party to those proceedings and cannot intervene on your behalf.

    Best Practices

    1. Read your syllabus before you start using AI in any course

    Most courses now have an explicit AI clause. Some prohibit AI entirely, some require disclosure, some encourage it. Find out.

    2. Always verify AI output

    AI is often confidently wrong: fake citations, miscalculated numbers, dropped steps in derivations. Treat output as a starting point, not a finished answer.

    3. Disclose AI use when your school requires it

    A simple, honest note is usually enough: "I used Backrow to draft / outline / paraphrase / generate practice questions for X. I then edited the result and verified against the assigned readings."

    4. Get permission before recording, and check your state's law

    Some US states (CA, FL, IL, MA, MD, MT, NH, PA, WA and others) require consent from all parties to a recording. Recording laws vary by country. See Terms of Service §4 for the warranty you make when you use the recording feature.

    5. Respect intellectual property

    Course materials are usually copyrighted by your instructor, institution, or a publisher. Use them within your course; do not redistribute them.

    6. When in doubt, don't

    If you cannot get clear permission and the syllabus is silent, the conservative choice is to not use AI for that specific submission, or to ask the instructor first.

    When We May Suspend or Close an Account

    Backrow may suspend or close accounts that:

    • Engage in fraud, payment chargebacks, or abuse of the Service
    • Violate our Terms of Service
    • Use Backrow to do anything independently illegal (see above)
    • Are subject to a binding legal order requiring suspension

    We do not close accounts based on a school's academic integrity allegation absent a binding legal order, and we do not proactively report users to schools. We will respond to lawful legal process (subpoenas, court orders, and similar valid legal demands) as required by law.

    If we do suspend or close your account, you are entitled to a statement of reasons and a human review of the decision — see Terms of Service §11.4.

    Questions?

    For general questions about how Backrow works:

    For instructors

    If you have questions about how Backrow works or how students are using it, contact us at educators@backrow.ai.

    These Responsible Use Guidelines are effective as of August 10, 2026 and apply to all users of Backrow.