A tutor that teaches, not tells.
Students work through a topic in conversation, try what they have just learned, and move on only when it has landed. On their own, or with their teacher alongside.
Thirty minutes with your own use cases, not a slide deck.
- Explore in 3D
It asks before it tells.
Every answer says what it checked first, and the student decides when to start each activity.
- 1
It finds out what they know
- 2
It explains in short steps
- 3
It gives them something to try
Teachers see where each student stands.
Students can use it on their own. When the school sets it, teachers get reports on each student's progress, strengths, and the topics that still need work.
What it will not do.
A subject tutor, built to keep the thinking with the student.
Your curriculum, not the open internet.
The tutor is trained on the curriculum your school teaches, so it works for IB, CBSE and Cambridge schools alike. Questions outside it get no answer.
It will not write the assignment.
It works back to the step the student is stuck on.
It is not a counsellor.
It is a subject tutor, and it does not present as anything else.
The conversations stay with the school.
They never train the model, and they are not sent to an outside AI company.
The tutor runs on open-source models we host ourselves. Conversations are kept until the end of the school year, and a school can have them deleted sooner. Everything else about where your data sits is on Trust and security.
Read Trust and security- Never used for training
- Open-source models, self-hosted
- Kept to the end of the school year
- Data processing agreement
Can students use the tutor to do their homework?
It is built to work back to the step a student is stuck on, not to hand over the finished answer. No system can stop a determined student finding the answer somewhere else, and we will not claim otherwise.
Can students use it without a teacher?
Yes. It works on its own. When a teacher sets it, they also get reports on each student's progress, strengths and weaknesses.
Is our students' data used to train the model?
No. The tutor runs on open-source models we host ourselves, and no student's conversation is used to train them.
How long do you keep the conversations?
Until the end of the school year. A school can ask for them to be deleted sooner.
Which curricula does it work with?
It is trained on the curriculum your school teaches, so it works for IB, CBSE and Cambridge schools alike.
Where is our data held, and is it secure?
iScuela is hosted on AWS. A data processing agreement is available for every school, and we hold our own ISO 27001 certification. Where your data is held and who processes it is set out in full on our Trust and security page.
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