An AI tutor that has actually read the course.
Course material pulled from the institution's LMS and grounded, so answers cite the lecture or reading they came from. On the faculty side, the first honest picture of where a cohort is getting stuck, while the term is still running.
Why does the Krebs cycle need oxygen if it doesn't use it directly?
It doesn't use oxygen in the cycle itself. Oxygen is needed downstream, as the final electron acceptor. Without it, NADH cannot be reoxidised and the cycle stalls.
- Lecture 7: Cellular respiration, slide 14
- Set reading: Alberts, ch. 14.2
- Electron transport chain84
- Substrate-level phosphorylation51
- Anaplerotic reactions33
- Glycolysis regulation18
Three people, three different problems.
A tutor available at 2am that answers from their syllabus rather than from the internet, and admits when the course simply does not cover something.
The room the material was taught in, and the two in the morning when it is finally read.
Grounded, not general-purpose.
A general chatbot will confidently answer a question your course answers differently. That is the problem this exists to solve.
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Grounded in the actual course
Retrieval over the syllabus, slides, readings and lecture material for that specific course. Answers cite their source so a student can go and read it.
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LMS integration
Content is pulled from the institution's existing LMS, so faculty are not asked to maintain a second copy of their course in another system.
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Faculty visibility
Which topics generate the most questions, where students repeatedly get stuck, and which misconceptions recur, reported at cohort level rather than as surveillance of individuals.
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Early signal
Engagement patterns that tend to precede a student falling behind, surfaced while there is still a term left in which to act on them.
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Academic integrity controls
Configurable per assessment to explain and question rather than answer, so it functions as a tutor during graded work rather than as a shortcut through it.
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Institutional controls
Course-by-course rollout, content boundaries, and data handling that a registrar and a privacy officer can both sign off.