Why Poios exists
Australian higher education sits at the intersection of three pressures: a rigorous regulatory framework administered by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the structural realities of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), and an academic workforce stretched thin across teaching, research, governance, and quality assurance obligations.
Generic EdTech platforms, designed for the United States, the United Kingdom, or for the corporate learning market, do not understand this context. They treat compliance as a checkbox feature, treat moderation as an optional workflow, and treat unit outline validation as something the user can sort out themselves.
Poios is engineered around these requirements rather than retrofitted to them. Every service in the platform maps to a specific Threshold Standard, AQF expectation, or institutional governance practice that Australian providers must satisfy.
How we build
Human-in-the-loop
No autonomous grading, no autonomous moderation outcomes, no autonomous compliance decisions. AI assists; humans decide and authorise.
Audit ready by default
Every action is logged with attribution and timestamp. Audit trails are append-only and exportable. Designed for TEQSA and ICT audits from day one.
Data sovereign
Institutional data resides in Australian or Singapore AWS regions. No cross-border data flows without explicit institutional consent.
Standards anchored
Every feature traces to a specific clause of the Higher Education Standards Framework or the AQF. No generic capability claims.
Privacy preserving
Privacy Act 1988 compliant. Australian Privacy Principles applied across the data lifecycle. Student data is segregated by institution at the database level.
Open to inspection
Methodology and limitations are documented. Where AI is used in a workflow, the model used and its constraints are surfaced to the user.
The standards we are built around
The Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 is the legislative instrument that defines minimum standards for Australian higher education providers. It is administered by TEQSA under the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) defines the level descriptors that govern what a graduate of a given qualification type is expected to know, understand, and be able to do. Constructive alignment between unit outcomes, assessment, and AQF level descriptors is a structural requirement, not an optional good practice.
For dual-sector providers, the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015, administered by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), apply to vocational education delivery. Poios supports both regulatory contexts within a single institution.
Institutions and roles
Poios operates as a multi-tenant platform with strict data segregation between institutions. Within each institution, four primary roles are supported.
- Institutional administrators. Oversee user management, policy artefacts, audit logs, and institutional compliance posture.
- Academic leaders. Heads of school, course coordinators, and discipline leads who oversee programme architecture, moderation panels, and quality outcomes.
- Lecturers and academics. Day-to-day users for marking assistance, content drafting, unit outline development, and assessment design.
- Educational and instructional designers. Specialist users working on programme architecture, module design, and learning experience development.
A platform-level super administrator role exists for institutional approval and cross-tenant governance, with strict role separation from any institutional data access.