Sana's AI Tutor is like having the world's best teacher and personal coach in your pocket, bringing one of the most effective learning methods, one-on-one tutoring, to scale. Every learner is empowered with a personal AI Tutor, an omnipresent companion adapted for learning.
While seamlessly supporting learners through self-paced Sana native courses, the AI Tutor can:
Adapt to learners' individual goals and needs
Help learners rehearse skills and act on feedback
Break down complex information into bitesize chunks
Provide real-time answers, any time
Spark learners' curiosity by relaying them to further learning material
How does the AI Tutor work?
The AI Tutor uses a multi-layered approach to analyze your questions, gather relevant course material, and consider your progress before crafting a response. Using reasoning logic, it ensures it has enough context to answer accurately, always basing its answers on your specific course content, objectives, and learning journey, never on generic information.
Where can learners find the AI Tutor?
Positioned in the bottom right corner of self-paced course pages, it remains readily available to provide assistance whenever needed.
Inside courses, the tutor takes the course as its context (similar to the Q&A card). Its functionalities include:
Smart suggestions – The tutor proactively suggests questions based on the learner’s current position in the course.
Instant course support – Learners can ask questions about the course, and the tutor will provide relevant answers.
Text explanations – Learners can highlight text in the course to receive clarifications and deeper insights.
Encouragement and motivation – The tutor keeps learners engaged with supportive contextual prompts.
Interactive tools
The tutor uses a number of interactive tools to personalize learning:
Quizzes help reinforce understanding and improve retention
"Reason together" engages the learner in a Socratic reasoning exercise
Concrete examples help learners apply new knowledge to real-world scenarios
It can also answer questions about uploaded videos, narration and images
By aligning with course learning outcomes, the tutor ensures a more engaging and effective learning experience.
Enabling the AI Tutor for your organization
In Settings > General, Admins can choose to:
Enable the AI Tutor: Enabled by default, and can be toggled on/off. By toggling it on, the AI Tutor is available to answer any question the learners might have about the courses they’re taking.
Enable AI Tutor by default in new courses: When enabled, AI Tutor will be active in new courses by default. It can still be disabled in course settings, or in bulk from the Content page in Manage.
Here you’ll also find a shortcut to Manage > Content, where you can easily adjust the courses in which the AI Tutor is available, either individually or in bulk. Learn more about this in the next section.
How can I switch the AI Tutor on/off?
Individually for specific courses
You can switch the AI Tutor off through the course settings either through Manage > Content or in the editor modal in Create.
Through Manage > Content
Go in to Manage > Content
Click on the course > settings
In General, scroll down to Tutor Settings.
Toggle on/off.
Through Create
Go in to Create
Open the course in Edit view.
Go to Settings in the top-right corner.
In General, scroll down to Tutor Settings.
Toggle on/off.
Bulk-changing multiple courses
In Manage > Content, you can select multiple courses and enable or disable the AI Tutor for all of them simultaneously.
By adding the 'Tutor Enabled' column in Manage > Content, you can quickly see which courses have the AI Tutor enabled or disabled.
FAQ
Can I provide feedback on the AI Tutor?
Your insights and feedback will be invaluable in refining the tutor’s capabilities, ensuring it truly supports learners in achieving their goals. Reach out to your Sana contact for any feedback on this functionality.
Is the AI tutor on by default?
Yes, you can choose to turn it off for any course by following the instructions above.
Which courses are the AI Tutor available for?
The tutor is available for self-paced Sana native courses only. SCORM courses do not support the tutor.