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Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register

AI-Assisted Learning Content Generation for Public Servants

Education & Learning

What it collects

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Course content and instructional materials stored in Brightspace, used as the basis for AI-generated learning content. The register states no personal information is involved.
Run by
Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization, Vendor

What it is for

Education & Learning

Lumi is an AI tool embedded in the Brightspace learning platform used by the Canada School of Public Service to help instructional designers create quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells. It generates educational content based on existing course material. The system does not process personal information, and users are informed when AI has been used to produce content.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Course content and instructional materials stored in Brightspace, used as the basis for AI-generated learning content. The register states no personal information is involved.

Processing

Language Models
  • Lumi uses a language model embedded within Brightspace to generate assessment and instructional design content from course material inputs.

What it does

Creating (Generative AI)
Human decides
  • Generates quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells based on provided course content. Instructional designers review and decide whether to use, edit, or discard the generated output.

Outputs

Generated content
Anonymized data
  • AI-generated quizzes, practice questions, assignments, and course development shells produced for use within Brightspace learning courses. Output does not contain personal information.

Run by

Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)
  • The Canada School of Public Service deploys Lumi within its Brightspace learning management system to support instructional designers and course developers across the Government of Canada.

Government of Canada AI Register — Lumi (D2L)

Built by

D2L / Lumi
  • D2L is the vendor that builds and supplies the Lumi AI capability embedded within the Brightspace learning platform, licensed to the Canada School of Public Service.

Government of Canada AI Register — Lumi (D2L)

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Generated learning content and usage data within Brightspace is available to the Canada School of Public Service as the deploying organization.
Available to vendor
  • As the technology provider, D2L / Lumi may have access to usage data and course content inputs processed by the system, subject to contractual terms.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Be Informed of AI UseThe register confirms that AI use is disclosed to users. Government of Canada employees interacting with Brightspace content are informed when AI has been used to generate learning materials.
  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyInformation about the use of the Lumi AI system is publicly listed in the Government of Canada's AI and Algorithmic Systems Register, accessible at open.canada.ca.

Risks and safeguards

No risks or safeguards have been published for this system yet.