Parents & Guardians
Effective 11 September 2026
Information for parents and guardians using WriteSmart with their children.
What is WriteSmart?
WriteSmart is a writing practice and assessment platform for primary-school students. It helps students practise writing and understand how they can improve, with tasks that support Selective school preparation, Scholarship preparation, and general writing development.
Your child can complete writing tasks across different genres - persuasive, narrative, speech, newspaper report and article writing - and receive an assessment and feedback immediately after submitting their work.
How does assessment work?
Every piece of writing is assessed against the same structured 25-point framework, across six areas:
- Content & Ideas
- Structure & Organisation
- Purpose & Audience
- Vocabulary & Style
- Grammar & Sentence Control
- Spelling & Punctuation
Your child's selected year level is used to calibrate assessment expectations appropriately for their age - for example, what "strong" writing looks like in Year 3 compared with Year 6. It does not affect which writing tasks or difficulty levels are available to your child; every student can access the same task library, at any difficulty.
WriteSmart provides practice assessment and feedback. It is not an official school or examination assessment.
How is AI used?
WriteSmart uses AI-assisted analysis to provide immediate writing assessment and feedback. Like any automated system, it may occasionally make mistakes, so results should be treated as guidance for learning and practice rather than as an official result.
The AI analyses your child's writing against the framework above and generates:
- A score for each of the six criteria
- Notes on what the writing does well and what to improve
- A suggested next practice focus
What information do we collect?
To provide the service, we collect:
- Account information (such as an email address and display name)
- Student year level
- Writing submissions
- Assessment results
- Feedback generated from each submission
- Practice history (which tasks have been attempted, and when)
We aim to collect only information that is reasonably necessary to provide and improve the service.
Children's information
WriteSmart is designed for use by school-aged students, and protecting children's information is something we take seriously. Information is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable Australian privacy requirements, including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
AI and third-party services
Some information may be processed by service providers that help us operate WriteSmart, including infrastructure and AI services. Some providers may process information outside Australia. Details about these providers and cross-border disclosures are set out in our Privacy Policy.
Parents and guardians
As a parent or guardian, you can:
- Review how the service is being used on your child's account
- Contact us with questions or concerns at any time
- Ask what information we hold about your account, where applicable
- Ask us to correct or delete that information, where applicable
- Raise a privacy concern or complaint
For the full details behind each of these, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
If you have a concern
If you have a question, privacy concern or complaint about WriteSmart, please contact us using the details provided in our Privacy Policy. WriteSmart has an internal complaints process, and information about contacting the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) if you're not satisfied with our response is also set out there.