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Use cases

Works across a range of course types and teaching styles.

How ChatTutor fits into teaching, then four courses where teams brought it in — and what changed in the first semester.

Where it fits in teaching

Around the lesson, inside the lesson, and after it.

Before and after teaching activities

Support for learning beyond scheduled class time — helping students prepare before lessons and reflect afterward.

  • Individual learning. Students explore concepts at their own pace, test their understanding, and get guided prompts aligned with the course material.
  • Self-guided collaboration. Unsupervised small groups structure discussions, compare ideas, and resolve uncertainties together.
  • Group work. Shared inquiry that makes reasoning visible, so groups build on each other's thinking rather than dividing tasks.
During teaching activities

In live classroom settings, ChatTutor becomes part of the instructional flow.

  • Supervised group work. Educators guide how AI is used while students work through problems or case studies.
  • Small classrooms and large lectures. Deeper dialogue and personal scaffolding in small rooms; many students engaging at once through structured prompts in large ones.
  • Assignments and exams. In development Learning-focused assessment that emphasises reasoning, transparency and academic integrity.
Human in the loop

Built for human + AI collaborative learning, where teachers, students and AI share the same learning space.

  • Agent participation. Educators decide when AI takes part in a discussion thread and when it stays in the background as a support tool.
  • Peer validation. Peers or teaching assistants can be looped into a conversation to check reasoning and correct misunderstandings.
  • Curriculum control. Educators decide how AI is applied to their curriculum, so it reinforces pedagogical goals rather than dictating them.
Analytics

Meaningful insight into how students are actually learning.

  • Weekly bottlenecks. Where students struggle, or ask the same question again, surfaces week by week.
  • Depth, not activity. Performance-level indicators separate surface engagement from deeper conceptual mastery.
  • Mid-semester correction. Instructional adjustments and targeted support while the semester is still running.
Advanced usage

For teams who want to go further, agents can be built from scratch.

  • Custom agents. Built for a specific subject or teaching strategy.
  • AI personas. A Socratic tutor, a debate partner, a writing coach.
  • Reasoning first. Agents that probe assumptions and ask students to explain their thinking instead of producing answers.
Multiple learning modalities
Coming

Reading and dialogue are only two ways into a subject. The next modalities extend the same grounded course material into other forms of study.

  • Podcasts. Course material turned into something a student can listen to — orchestrated by the teacher.
  • Collaborative notes. A shared record a cohort builds together, with the agent in the margin.
  • Multiple file formats. Documents, video and more, indexed as course material the agent can answer from.
01
Large first-year STEM course
600–1,500 students · few TAs

The same forty questions arrive every year, mostly about notation and the first three problem sets. The agent takes them, cites the page, and escalates the genuinely hard ones to a TA — whose answer is then reused next semester.

02
Equation-heavy graduate course
Dense notes · derivations

Generic chatbots paraphrase around the maths. ChatTutor parses the derivation itself, so a student can ask what a term means and get an answer anchored to the line it appears on.

03
Programme with a dropout problem
Department-level rollout

Students who do not ask are those most likely to withdraw. A private thread lowers the barrier, and course analytics show programme heads exactly which concepts precede withdrawal.

04
Bilingual and international cohorts
Danish and English

Material in one language, questions in another. Students work in the language they think in while the citations still point at your original document.

How teachers actually use it
01
Engaging students through different response styles

Several agents, each with a distinct way of explaining, become material for discussion in class.

  • One agent per response style — short, detailed, step-by-step
  • Students compare explanations of the same question
  • Selected answers reused as classroom discussion material
Anonymous
Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School
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02
Identifying and addressing student misunderstandings

Answers stay anchored in the uploaded course material, and question patterns feed back into the next lecture.

  • Notes and articles uploaded, so answers match what is taught
  • Analytics surface recurring misunderstandings across the group
  • Lectures and exercises adjusted to the gaps that appear
Steen Schyum Markvorsen
Professor at Technical University of Denmark
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03
Role-based investigation in a pharmaceutical approval scenario

ChatTutor plays the applicant company; students interrogate it from assigned professional roles.

  • Full application dossier loaded; the agent answers as the company
  • Students work as regulator, bioethicist, reimbursement specialist
  • Findings compared in class: which questions exposed most
Anonymous
Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen
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04
Live, whole-class participation in a lecture

A shared session lets the whole room answer the same question at once — then @ai clusters the answers live.

  • Every student answers, not just the few who speak up
  • Typing @ai groups answers and surfaces misconceptions
  • Contributions kept, so participation can be reviewed after class
Anonymous
Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
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