---
title: "Educational App Compliance"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/education-law-en/educational-app-compliance-en"
field: "Education Law"
description: "Educational app compliance: distance learning at school, programme requirements and assessment rules. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-13"
updated: "2026-11-08"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Educational App Compliance

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/education-law-en/educational-app-compliance-en

## The Legal Basis of Distance Learning in the Public School

The compliance of educational apps at the public-school level is determined by Article 6-1 of the Law on General Education. Under this norm, distance learning means the conduct of the educational process in a distant or electronic form or through other means of communication, and is carried out in the form of synchronous or asynchronous communication — just as the concept is defined in Article 2 of the law.

The lawful footing of an educational app at school level is therefore precisely this framework: the app is an instrument for the remote conduct of the educational process, and its compliance is measured by how far it corresponds to the statutory format and requirements.

## Programme Requirements

By paragraph 3 of Article 6-1, the distance learning programme is built in accordance with the requirements established by Georgian legislation for the general education programme or for the subject or subject group provided by the national curriculum.

In practice this means: the app must structure its content not in a free format but on the basis of the requirements of the general education programme and the national curriculum — according to subjects, subject groups and learning outcomes.

The subject-group requirement matters all the more where integrated subjects are taught: the app must reflect both the single subject and the group format, since the law builds the lawfulness of the distance programme on these two units.

## The Decision on the Remote Regime — an Administrative Act

An important detail is who decides on moving to the remote regime: in general education institutions, the decision on permitting distance learning and on its period, as well as on the institution that must use distance learning to deliver general education, is taken by the minister by an individual administrative-legal act.

This means that distance learning is not the school's arbitrary decision — it is established by a separate administrative act, and the use of the app must likewise be planned within the framework of that act.

## The Rules of Assessment in the Digital Environment

In public schools, the rules and conditions for conducting the educational process remotely and for assessing the results obtained are approved by the minister. The assessment component of the digital environment is thus defined centrally, and the app must technically secure these rules.

In a compliance assessment these two layers — the substantive (programme and curriculum) and the procedural (the minister's act and the assessment rules) — together create the boundaries within which an educational app is lawfully used.

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### Which law regulates the app?

Article 6-1 of the Law on General Education and the term definition.

### How is content built?

By the requirements of the education programme and the national curriculum.

### Who decides the remote regime?

The minister, by an individual administrative-legal act.

### Does FERPA apply?

No — compliance is assessed under Georgian law.