Our New Classroom Features Are Coming Soon!
At Colleague AI, we are dedicated to empowering educators and learners with cutting-edge tools that drive deeper engagement, streamline essential classroom tasks, and create truly personalized learning experiences. We’re thrilled to announce the May 19th release of our newest Classroom features—each designed in collaboration with educators and aligned with the real-world needs of today’s students.
Here’s an in-depth look at what’s coming soon:
Seamless Student Connections: Clever, ClassLink, and Email Signups
Onboarding students has never been simpler. Whether your school uses Clever or ClassLink for single sign-on (SSO) solutions, or you prefer email-based signups for flexibility, students can quickly and securely connect to their personalized AI learning environment with just a few clicks. Our privacy-focused AI platform strictly adheres to COPPA, FERPA, and GDPR standards, ensuring that student data remains protected at every stage of their educational journey.
Meet Their New Personal AI Tutor: Supportive, Not Substitutive
Imagine a 24/7 support system that enhances, but never replaces, genuine student effort. Students now have continuous access to an AI Tutor built with one core philosophy: support learning without doing the work for them.
Grounded in educational theory, and developed through codesign with students and teachers, our AI Tutor models scaffolded questioning, offers strategic hints, and encourages perseverance. Students can practice and ask questions about their classes with an encouraging, patient tutor that will help them develop independent problem-solving skills, a critical goal in today’s educational landscape where lifelong learning is paramount.
Create Structured, Guided Conversations with the New Discussion Tool
Our new Discussion feature empowers teachers to orchestrate rich, guided conversations between students and AI assistants. Teachers set the topic, attach relevant readings or multimedia resources, and design specific prompts that channel student inquiry and dialogue.
This tool promotes deeper exploration of topics, critical thinking, and the articulation of complex ideas. Structured AI conversations offer a dynamic alternative to traditional worksheets, fostering active engagement and ensuring that students are not just consuming information, but wrestling with it, debating it, and making it their own.
These insights can also support differentiated instruction, allowing educators to meet students exactly where they are. Teacher’s can view their students’ activity in the discussion as it happens with the participant status. They can also access an AI generated summary, highlighting students strengths and areas of opportunity.
Student Work Submissions + AI Feedback and Grading
Students can now upload their assignments directly within the platform, unlocking immediate feedback opportunities. Our system provides AI-generated feedback that highlights both strengths and specific areas for growth, modeled after best practices in formative assessment. We support most common file formats, including automatic handwriting recognition in image uploads.
Educators, meanwhile, can harness our robust AI Grading Tools to streamline their workload – see our recent blogpost Design for Future Assessment. With features like standards-based grading support, rubric alignment, and detailed commentary, educators maintain professional judgment while gaining substantial time savings. You can read more about our grading tool in the peer reviewed Social Innovations Journal.
Research consistently shows that timely, targeted feedback improves student learning outcomes and our new tools ensure that every learner receives personalized guidance, without overburdening teachers.
Unlock Deeper Understanding with Student Growth Insights
Understanding student progress shouldn’t be a mystery. Our Student Growth Insights dashboard aggregates and visualizes students’ strengths, areas for development, and evolving interests over time.
With these powerful insights, you can:
- Differentiate instruction more precisely.
- Design targeted interventions and enrichment opportunities.
- Strengthen parent communications with data-driven narratives.
- Equip PLCs with meaningful student profiles for collaborative planning.
Research underscores that data-driven instruction fosters improved academic outcomes. Our platform makes it easier than ever to turn student learning data into actionable classroom strategies, making continuous improvement a natural part of your teaching practice. Our Claire AI assistant is integrated directly into the growth insights, with a single click you can start generating new lessons, prepare emails, or build differentiated materials.
Real-Time Safety Notifications for Educators
Student safety is our highest priority. That’s why we’ve introduced safety notifications to alert teachers whenever a student submits a potentially unsafe or concerning query.
If a student’s question raises a safety flag—whether related to personal harm, bullying, or other risks—the system immediately notifies the supervising teacher. This allows educators to offer the right support when students need it most. Students can also directly notify their teacher if they ever have questions or concerns about an AI chat session.
Colleague AI’s tutoring agent is designed solely to help with educational topics. It is instructed not to engage in therapy, counseling, or otherwise support students in distress beyond directing them to speak to a trusted adult. Responsibility for appropriately responding to detected messages lies solely with the school district.
Built by Educators, for Educators: A Platform You Can Trust
Our new classroom features embody Colleague AI’s unwavering commitment to responsible, educator-centered AI development. Unlike many generic AI platforms, we build specifically for the nuanced needs of educators and students. Our features are developed through codesign sessions with classroom teachers and students. We will continue to refine and improve these features as we work closely with educators like you.
We Want to Hear From You!
Your feedback is essential to making Colleague AI even better. As you explore our new features, we invite you to share your thoughts, suggestions, and experiences with us. Click the “Share Feedback” button on our site to let us know what you think. Your insights help us continue building the best AI learning assistant for educators and students alike.
Thank you for being part of our growing community!
Stay tuned for the full release on May 19th — your new classroom experience with Colleague AI is just around the corner, ready to transform how your students learn and grow!
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