The AI tutor

The AI tutor is the part of ShuleOne that explains things. Where a lesson teaches the same material to everyone, the tutor responds to what you are stuck on.

What it does

Explains. Ask it about something you did not follow and it explains it again, differently, at your level.

Gives you practice. Personalised CBC practice, aimed at the topics you keep getting wrong rather than the ones you have already mastered.

Supports you while you work. A nudge when you are stuck on an activity, rather than the answer.

Reads to you. Voice narration for the early years, so a learner who cannot yet read fluently is not shut out.

It works at school and at home, on any device you can sign in on.

Using it well

Ask it why, not what. “What is the answer” gets you a number you will forget. “Why is it that” gets you something you can use on the next question.

Tell it what you tried. “I got 12 and the book says 15” is a much better question than “I don’t understand”, because it can see where you went wrong.

Do the practice it gives you. It is aimed at your weak spots, which is exactly why it feels harder than the rest.

Check it. It is very good and it is not always right. If something it says contradicts your teacher or your textbook, your teacher is the one to ask.

Caution

Do not use it to produce work you hand in as your own. Your teacher can see what you did in the portal and how long it took, and work that appears out of nowhere is obvious. More to the point, an assignment it wrote teaches you nothing and the exam is still coming.

What your teacher sees

Teachers see who is stuck and exactly where — not a transcript of everything you typed, but the topics learners are struggling with.

This is the point of it. A teacher who knows on Tuesday that eleven learners are stuck on the same step can fix it on Wednesday.

ShuleTab

ShuleTab is an optional dedicated learning tablet, for schools that want the tutor on managed hardware rather than on whatever device each family happens to own.

If your school issues one, everything in this guide works the same on it. It is a device choice, not a different product.

For parents

The tutor is a good thing to have in the house and a bad thing to leave unattended.

Learners who use it as a way of thinking out loud get a lot from it. Learners who use it to produce homework get a term of good marks followed by a bad exam.

The progress view shows which of those is happening — look at whether the practice is being done, not just whether the work is being handed in.