Last updated: 8 July 2026
Support that keeps learning first
NuvStem is built to help students understand difficult work, make better decisions, improve their own drafts and projects, and develop skills they can use independently.
We support learning. We do not provide a shortcut around learning or academic rules. We do not promote academic dishonesty, and we design our services to keep learning first.
Our commitment
NuvStem may provide tutoring, explanation, planning, feedback, review, debugging, research guidance, technical guidance, templates, examples, and mentorship.
We do not knowingly support:
- plagiarism;
- contract cheating;
- impersonation;
- exam cheating;
- unauthorized collaboration;
- fabrication or falsification of data, results, sources, citations, or records;
- theft or misuse of restricted course materials; or
- submission of work falsely represented as the student's own.
What NuvStem can help with
Depending on course and institutional rules, appropriate support may include:
- explaining concepts and methods;
- decoding assignment instructions and rubrics;
- helping a student plan an approach;
- reviewing the structure and clarity of the student's own draft;
- identifying gaps in reasoning;
- discussing figures, tables, references, and presentation;
- teaching research and literature-review methods;
- helping scope a project;
- reviewing methodology and validation plans;
- debugging code and explaining errors;
- reviewing code architecture and test strategy;
- generating practice questions;
- providing templates and worked learning examples; and
- coaching students to explain and defend their own work.
What NuvStem will not knowingly do
NuvStem will not knowingly:
- sit an exam, quiz, interview, or assessment for a user;
- impersonate a student;
- complete prohibited graded work for submission as the student's own;
- create fake data, results, references, citations, interviews, fieldwork, or experiments;
- provide stolen or unauthorized answer keys;
- help bypass proctoring, access controls, or institutional security;
- sell pre-written assignments as original submissions; or
- help a user conceal misconduct.
Coding support
Coding support can include explanation, debugging, review, testing strategy, architecture discussion, documentation guidance, and feedback on code written by the student.
Where an assignment prohibits outside coding assistance, the institution's rule controls.
NuvStem will not knowingly complete a prohibited assessed programming task for submission as the student's own or help a user misrepresent who wrote the work.
Research, capstone, thesis, and project support
NuvStem may support:
- topic development;
- literature-search strategy;
- project scoping;
- methodology review;
- technical explanation;
- design review;
- code review;
- test planning;
- data-analysis explanation;
- documentation;
- presentation preparation; and
- feedback on work produced by the student or team.
The student or team remains responsible for:
- authorship;
- experimental work;
- data integrity;
- citations;
- safety;
- ethics approvals;
- confidentiality;
- institutional approvals;
- technical validation; and
- final submission.
Examples, reports, and templates
NuvStem examples, reports, templates, and worked materials are learning resources.
Unless a specific license says otherwise, users must not:
- submit them as their own;
- copy or lightly paraphrase them into graded work;
- remove ownership notices;
- redistribute them;
- upload them to answer-sharing or document-sharing platforms; or
- use them to misrepresent authorship.
The purpose of an example is to show structure, reasoning, presentation, and method so that the student can produce original work.
AI-assisted work
AI may be useful for explanation, practice, feedback, brainstorming, review, and checking reasoning.
A student must still follow the rules of the relevant course, instructor, institution, competition, journal, employer, or professional body.
Where disclosure of AI use is required, the student is responsible for making that disclosure accurately.
See the Responsible AI Policy for more detail.
Your responsibility
You remain responsible for the work you submit and for knowing the rules that apply to you.
Rules may differ by:
- school;
- institution;
- program;
- course;
- instructor;
- assignment;
- research group;
- journal;
- competition; or
- professional regulator.
Where a NuvStem policy appears more permissive than the rule that governs your work, the stricter applicable rule controls your conduct.
Enforcement
NuvStem may:
- ask clarifying questions;
- narrow or redirect a request;
- decline prohibited assistance;
- restrict features;
- remove content;
- suspend an account; or
- terminate access.
The response will depend on the seriousness, repetition, intent, and risk of the conduct.
Questions about whether a request is appropriate may be sent to hello@nuvstem.com.