What is Brian's AI Tutor?
Brian's AI Tutor is a data-secure chatbot for students that acts pedagogically and can be contextualized with course-relevant material.
Students can ask the AI Tutor questions about the course content at any time. The Tutor responds in a Socratic way: it explains concepts, but also encourages students to think for themselves and dig deeper into the material.
The AI Tutor can also cite directly from uploaded documents, or be instructed to quiz students on key content from the course.
The AI Tutor is automatically anchored in every quiz for students. This way, it can answer specific questions about a quiz topic right where they come up.
How do I contextualize the AI Tutor?
All documents you upload when creating your course content are automatically used to contextualize the AI Tutor.
If you don't want certain documents to be used by the AI Tutor, you can deselect them in the "Course Materials" tab.
Tip: Name your files following the pattern "Author, Year" (e.g., Miller, 2024.pdf) before uploading. If the bot can't find metadata in the text, it uses this file name to cite from it.
Disabling the AI Tutor
The AI Tutor can be disabled in the course settings. Simply set the corresponding toggle to "inactive."
Where do students find the AI Tutor?
Students can open the AI Tutor from within a course by tapping the star icon at the bottom of the screen.
How is the AI Tutor different from AI Dialogues and Chatbots?
The AI Tutor acts as a learning assistant for the whole course. Students open it on their own whenever they have a content-related question or don't understand a quiz answer. It works best when it has access to all of the course's teaching material.
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