National AI Conversation 2027

Platform walkthrough

A tour of the platform schools will use from 1 January 2027, from signing up to the programme team’s dashboard.

Every screen shows made-up demo data: Willowbrook Primary School and the schools it debates.

What is the National AI Conversation?

Part 1

The public front door

What anyone sees, and how a school joins.

  1. Screenshot: What is the National AI Conversation?View full screen

    Screen 1

    What is the National AI Conversation?

    The landing page: the idea, the five themes, how each age debates, how a debate works, safeguarding and the timeline.

    Open the live page

  2. Screenshot: The homepageView full screen

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    The homepage

    The way in: one debate motion at a time in the strand box, and the countdown to AI Awareness Day.

    Open the live page

  3. Screenshot: Register your schoolView full screen

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    Register your school

    One short form. It names the headteacher who must approve the school, and who introduced it. Nobody gets a password.

  4. Screenshot: Nominate a schoolView full screen

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    Nominate a school

    Someone who works with a school can invite it. They prove their own email first, and the school is emailed once.

  5. Screenshot: The headteacher approvesView full screen

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    The headteacher approves

    One click from one email. Nothing goes live for the school until this happens.

Part 2

A school’s day

Willowbrook Primary School, as its lead teacher sees it.

  1. Screenshot: School dashboardView full screen

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    School dashboard

    The school code, the class PIN, every debate and the team, in one place.

  2. Screenshot: On the whiteboardView full screen

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    On the whiteboard

    What the class sees: scan the code, type the PIN, and answer a few anonymous questions. No names, no accounts.

  3. Screenshot: Join the conversationView full screen

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    Join the conversation

    Schools looking for an opponent, in their own region first. The host school chooses who to accept.

  4. Screenshot: A debate waiting for an opponentView full screen

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    A debate waiting for an opponent

    Every step on one tracker, so both teachers always know what is next. Invite by email, share a link, or put it on the board.

  5. Screenshot: A debate that is readyView full screen

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    A debate that is ready

    The fixture, the judge, the safeguarding pack, a calendar entry and directions.

  6. Screenshot: The prep packView full screen

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    The prep pack

    A 30-minute running order for the age group, a checklist, the survey to run beforehand, research and roles for the whole class.

  7. Screenshot: A paper scorecardView full screen

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    A paper scorecard

    For a judge who prefers paper. The code on it leads to the official online entry.

  8. Screenshot: The resultView full screen

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    The result

    Scores on four criteria, the judge’s comment for the school, and how the room vote moved.

  9. Screenshot: ResultsView full screen

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    Results

    Every debate, the school’s scores against the average for its age group, and progress to the certificate.

  10. Screenshot: The certificateView full screen

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    The certificate

    Two debates against two different schools earns it. Printable, with a reference anyone can check.

  11. Screenshot: Student VoiceView full screen

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    Student Voice

    What the school’s own students think, anonymous and hidden until at least ten have answered.

  12. Screenshot: The School AI SnapshotView full screen

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    The School AI Snapshot

    One printable page to take to governors and staff.

Part 3

The judge

No account: the judge is invited by the host teacher and uses the link in the invitation.

  1. Screenshot: The judge's pageView full screen

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    The judge’s page

    The fixture, where to go, the running order and two ways to score.

  2. Screenshot: Scoring on a phoneView full screen

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    Scoring on a phone

    Four criteria, a comment for each school, and the room vote before and after. It saves as the judge types.

Part 4

Everyone else

What the public, and the organisations that introduce schools, can see.

  1. Screenshot: Public resultsView full screen

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    Public results

    Both schools, the theme, the motion and the winner, and the judge’s name only if they agreed. Never anything about students.

  2. Screenshot: Check a certificateView full screen

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    Check a certificate

    Anyone can check a certificate is genuine from its reference.

  3. Screenshot: An introducer's dashboardView full screen

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    An introducer’s dashboard

    For an organisation that introduced a school: an emailed link, no account, totals only, and only if the school’s headteacher agreed.

Part 5

The programme team

How AI Awareness Day runs the conversation nationally.

  1. Screenshot: The programme dashboardView full screen

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    The programme dashboard

    The journey from sign-up to certificate, stuck fixtures, regions, MATs, partners, judges and Student Voice. Every figure is a count; the ones shown are illustrative.

Schools can register from 1 January 2027

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