AI teaching assistant

Your instructors answer the same nine questions every cohort

Cohort answers them in the context of the actual lesson, in the learner's own words, and then tells your instructors which two students genuinely need a human this week.

Works with Teachable, Thinkific, Moodle, Canvas and Circle

Module 4 · Cash flow forecastingAnswered in 9s
I don't get why we subtract the opening balance again in week 3? Feels like double counting.

You're not subtracting it again, you're carrying it forward. In the week 3 sheet the opening balance is week 2's closing balance, so it appears once as a starting point, not as an outflow.

Look at cell B14 in the workbook from the lesson: it references B32 from the previous tab. If you change week 2's closing figure, week 3's opening moves with it.

Module 4, 12:40Workbook, tab W3FAQ 11
Cited from your own course materialNo instructor involved
How it runs

It teaches from your course, not from the internet

Cohort is grounded entirely in the material you uploaded. If the answer is not in your course, it says so and passes the question to a human.

1

Ingest

Video transcripts, slides, workbooks and your existing FAQ, indexed down to the timestamp.

2

Answer

Responds in the thread the learner asked in, citing the lesson and minute it came from.

3

Watch

Tracks who has stalled, who is re-watching the same eight minutes and who has gone quiet.

4

Escalate

Hands the instructor a short list of learners with the context already written up.

At-risk

The two people worth a personal message this week

Not a churn score. A named list with the reason attached, so the intervention is specific rather than a nudge email.

LearnerLast activeProgressRisk
Priya N.Stalled on Module 4 for 9 days, re-watched 12:00–20:00 four times9 days ago38%Reach out
Tomas B.Completed Module 5 but failed the check twice, no questions askedYesterday61%Reach out
Dana K.Slower than cohort median but steady, engaging in discussion2 days ago44%Watch
Owen L.Ahead of schedule, answering other learners' questions correctlyToday79%Healthy
Boundaries

What it will not do

Three limits, set in the engine rather than in a prompt, because a teaching assistant that oversteps costs you more than it saves.

Never invents content

If a question falls outside the uploaded material, Cohort says it doesn't cover that and routes it to an instructor. It does not fill the gap.

Never does the assessment

It will explain a concept four different ways. It will not produce the answer to a graded exercise, however the question is phrased.

Never hides itself

Learners are told they're talking to an assistant and can ask for a human at any point. The handover is one click and it always works.

Figures

Three providers, five cohorts

Professional certification courses, 200 to 1,400 learners per intake.

78%
Questions answered without an instructor
9s
Median response, any hour
+16pt
Course completion rate
0
Answers from outside the course material

Point it at one module and one cohort

We index the material, run it alongside your instructor for a fortnight, and you compare its answers against theirs before it speaks to anybody unsupervised.

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