Instructor

Instructional Designer

Student Success

Solution:

Help students study smarter for every exam

AI Student Tutor generates practice questions, explains the concepts you are stuck on, and runs interactive Study Mode sessions using the actual content from your course. Ask a question, test yourself, and go into the exam prepared.

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Why
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matters

Practice questions built from your course, not the internet

Generic flashcard apps and search results give you content that may not match what your instructor is testing. AI Student Tutor reads your actual course materials, including lecture slides, readings, and uploaded files, and generates questions grounded in that content. What you practice is what your exam is built from.

Risk reduction

Stuck on a concept at 11pm? Get an explanation, not a search result

Office hours are closed. The textbook explanation is not clicking. AI Student Tutor can break down any concept from your course materials in plain language, walk through a worked example, and answer your follow-up questions, all without telling you the answer to the problem you are supposed to solve yourself.

Student experience improvement

Students self-study more effectively without adding faculty workload

When students have a reliable way to practice and self-check at any hour, the volume of low-level clarification questions directed at faculty drops. Students arrive at office hours with better-formed questions. Faculty spend their time on discussions that require human judgment, not on re-explaining definitions the tutor already covered.

Scaling operations

How to help students prep for exams with AI

Enable the AI Tutor and turn on Study Mode

In the LearnWise dashboard, open the AI Tutor tab for the assistant. Enable the tutor for your course and turn on Study Mode, which lets the tutor present questions one at a time and wait for student responses before giving feedback. This is the setting that turns a general Q&A assistant into a structured exam preparation tool.

Review knowledge sources and add any additional materials

Course content syncs automatically from the LMS. You can adjust which content types the tutor scrapes, add courses manually if needed, and upload supplementary files such as PDFs directly to specific courses from the Course Files tab. The tutor builds every student response from these sources and cites them by name, so it is worth making sure the right materials are included before students start using it.

Set answering style, integrity guardrails, and entry points

Set the answering style to guide without revealing answers, so the tutor explains and prompts rather than completing student work. Configure academic integrity guardrails to redirect out-of-scope requests. Then decide how students will access exam prep: set up a Flow to trigger Study Mode automatically when students open the tutor during exam week, or add a Study Mode shortcut button to the chat interface so students can launch it directly without needing to ask.

Students practice, ask questions, and run Study Mode sessions

With the tutor configured, students can ask for practice questions on any topic from their course materials, request explanations of concepts they are stuck on, and enter Study Mode for active recall sessions with per-question feedback. The example prompts section below shows exactly what students can ask and what they get back.

How it works

Admins enable the AI Tutor in the LearnWise dashboard and configure Study Mode, the answering style, and any academic integrity guardrails before students access it. Course materials sync automatically from the LMS, and instructors can adjust which content types are scraped, add courses manually, or upload supplementary files directly.

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Once live, the tutor reads your course materials and builds every response from that content. When a student asks for practice questions or a concept explanation, the tutor references the specific lecture slide or reading it drew from. Study Mode turns the conversation into a structured practice session: one question at a time, feedback after each answer, and full context retained throughout so students can follow up without repeating themselves.

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The tutor guides thinking rather than completing work. Academic integrity boundaries set by the institution are enforced automatically. When a request falls outside those boundaries, the tutor redirects the student toward the learning process.

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Key features

Generate practice questions from course materials by topic or week
Explain concepts and definitions in plain language with examples
Run Study Mode: one question at a time with feedback after each answer
Work through calculations and show step-by-step reasoning
Compare concepts or theories covered in the same course
Reference the specific source for every answer it gives
Enforce academic integrity guardrails set by the institution

What to ask

These are real prompts you can use with LearnWise AI Assistants. Copy them directly, or adjust to match your context and standards.

Enter Study Mode for active recall

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Test me on cardiac output, preload, afterload, and Frank-Starling from Weeks 7 and 8. Give me feedback after each answer before moving to the next question.

The tutor presents one question at a time and waits for your response. After you answer, it tells you what you got right, what you missed, and where in the course material the correct answer comes from. You can ask for a hint or request an explanation before continuing.

Generate practice questions from a topic

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Generate 5 practice questions on renal filtration from Week 9. Mix recall and application questions, and include one that requires a calculation.

Returns questions drawn from your course materials, each labeled with the source it came from. You can ask for more questions, change the difficulty, or move straight into Study Mode once you have a set to work through.

Get an explanation of a concept you are stuck on

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I do not understand the difference between preload and afterload. Can you explain both using the example from the Week 8 lecture and then give me a question to check if I got it?

The tutor explains both concepts using your course content, works through the example your instructor used, and then generates a check question. You can keep asking follow-up questions in the same conversation without repeating context.

Target your weakest topics before the exam

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I have a NURS 301 midterm in two days. I am weakest on fluid and electrolyte balance from Weeks 5 and 6. Give me 10 practice questions on that topic, harder than standard recall.

Returns a focused set of higher-difficulty questions drawn from the weeks you specify. After working through them, you can ask the tutor to explain the ones you missed or generate more questions on the specific subtopic where you struggled.

The tutor helps students learn. It does not do their work for them.

Academic integrity guardrails are configured by the institution in the LearnWise dashboard and enforced automatically in every session. The tutor will not write assignments, or provide exam answers. When a request falls outside those boundaries, it redirects the student toward the learning process. The tutor is scoped to the course materials in each student's enrolled courses.