Every post gets a considered reply, and the student knows who wrote it.
Each student, or each employee in a company program, takes a position on a question from the course and defends it. Replies come from an AI in a stated role, named as AI, and from classmates.
- Who replies
- An AI in a stated role, and classmates
- The AI's role
- Teaching assistant or simulation partner
- Built around
- A position to defend
- A typical three-credit course
- 15 discussions
The student takes a position and has to defend it.
Students call the ordinary discussion board busy work: post once, reply to two, and nobody answers. This one is built so that a post is answered.
Step 1
Take a position
The question comes out of a case, a reading, or a scene in the course. The student commits to one side and gives reasons.
Step 2
Get a reply
Every post gets a considered reply, one that answers what the student wrote.
Step 3
Answer back
The student answers the reply, and answers classmates who took a different position.
Every AI reply is labeled, and your instructor can step into any thread.
An AI in a stated role
The role is shown in the thread: teaching assistant or simulation partner. In either role, the reply is labeled as AI.
Classmates
Other students reply too, each with a position of their own.
Your instructor or your expert
They can read any thread and reply in it. You decide which roles stay human.
Discussion comes before the student has to commit.
Applied judgment
When the goal is to decide- Dramatized case
- Reading
- Discussion
- Video simulation
- Reflection
The scene and the reading raise the dilemma. In the simulation that follows, the student has to commit to one position out loud.
How it is graded
Whether a discussion counts toward the grade is your decision. Where it does, it is AI-graded and human-confirmed, fully by people, or fully by AI.
Where a discussion starts and where it leads.
Reading & case studies
The reading or case that gives a discussion its question.
See reading and cases
Practice conversations & simulations
Where the student commits to a position out loud, against an AI character.
See practice conversations
Dramatized cases
A dramatized case that raises the question before the discussion opens.
See dramatized cases
Bring a question from your course that splits the room.
Book a demo and we will show a discussion built on a question from your course. We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide.