AI Tutor: an AI that builds your lesson
AI Tutor is for learners with an account in the Public college. Tell it what you want to learn, how well you know it and how long you have, and it builds a lesson of that length, adds it to My learning and answers your questions about it. It is an AI, not a person.
How to build a lesson
Open AI Tutor in the bar, next to My learning. The page is a conversation with AI Tutor: say what you want to learn in the big box, in your own words, and the conversation fills the page, with the box at the bottom for what you say next. It looks first for lessons that already teach it, in your language, and shows them as cards in its answer, each with a sentence on what it teaches, then asks a question or two to check whether they cover what you need. That costs nothing extra: it is an ordinary question, on your usual daily questions or your credits. Your built lessons are in a short list under the conversation.
If none of them does, press Build my own lesson under the tutor's answer, or just say so. AI Tutor first talks it through with you: what the lesson is about, what you know already and what you want to be able to do. It builds lessons on computing subjects only. Then it sums it up as a question, and once you say yes, the choices appear right there in the conversation: tap your level, a length of 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours (each shows its price) and where you would practise. You see the price in credits and dollars, what is included and your paid credits. If you need more, Top up credits opens in a new tab, and when you come back the page has your new balance without a reload. An outline preview, up to 3 a day, shows what it plans to write for nothing. Pressing Build is the confirmation: nothing starts before it, and the price is taken once. When it starts, the conversation moves to a pane on the right, with everything said so far kept, and the lesson is written on the left.
Shaping it as it is written
Once it starts, the lesson is written in front of you on the left, part by part, and AI Tutor says on the right what it is adding and why. Say what you would like changed at any time, for example more diagrams, simpler words, a quiz, or skip this part: it changes, adds, moves or removes parts and says what it changed. Changes are included in the price, as many as you like. A lesson may hold words, tips, code examples, tables, diagrams and quizzes.
When you are happy with it, press Add it to my lessons. It is checked first, the lab is written and tested if you asked for one, and the lesson is added to My learning with its tutor questions. You can leave the page at any point and come back to the conversation and the lesson where they were. One build runs at a time, and you can keep up to 20 built lessons. Undo, on the receipt or in your list of built lessons, removes the lesson.
What it costs
The price depends only on the length: 500 credits for 30 minutes, 1000 for 1 hour and 2000 for 2 hours. It is taken once, when the build begins, and only from credits you have bought: the free monthly credits do not pay for it. A build that has begun is finished whatever happens to your balance afterwards.
What comes with a lesson
Each lesson comes with tutor questions about that lesson, answered by the quick tier: 30, 60 and 120 for the three lengths, one for every minute. They work even when you have no other credits left, and when they are gone the usual daily questions apply. A lesson is yours alone and nobody else can open it.
Privacy and limits
Your request and the lesson go to Anthropic, which runs the model, for this feature. It will not build anything about self-harm, weapons, malware, sexual content, harassment or anything illegal. If you are under 18, check with a grown-up first. Nothing installs on your computer.
What it costs, and how to try it
A school or college has its first 365 days free, for up to 50 students and with no card, and everything on this page is part of it. After that the price is per student a year, with staff free and labs, virtual machines and AI included on a fair-use basis. The pricing page has the figure in your currency and a calculator.
Questions people ask
- Can anyone else read my lesson?
- No. A built lesson is visible only to the learner who built it.
- Why can I not build?
- Build needs bought credits that cover the price. The price card says so and links to Buy credits.
- Does it build a lab to practise in?
- Where one would help, yes: a VM or container lab is written and given a test run. If it does not pass, or cannot be tested, you are told and asked before the lesson is added without it.