Sana's Tutor Mode is a way to make learning more dynamic, interactive, and tailored to each user. This feature is designed to empower every learner - turning any content into a personalized learning journey.
What is Tutor Mode in Search?
Tutor Mode is your on-demand learning companion, helping you create customized tutoring courses from:
Any published Sana content you can access
With just a click, you’ll receive:
Multi-step learning paths
Relevant images to support understanding
Practice exercises, all tailored to your needs
Simply toggle the Learning Path button in the Search Assistant to begin your session. You’ll see personalized recommendations appear on your screen, and when you use Q&A mode, you’ll also get suggestions for what to learn next.
Why use the Tutor Mode?
The Tutor Mode enhances your Sana experience by:
Personalizing Learning: Instantly adapts content to your goals, making every session relevant and engaging.
Saving Time: Quickly generates structured courses, so you can focus on learning, not searching.
Encouraging Active Learning: Practice exercises and step-by-step paths help you master concepts, not just review them.
Use Cases
Onboarding New Team Members: Empower new hires to take charge of their onboarding by exploring guided learning paths built from your company’s onboarding materials and key external resources—enabling them to ramp up with confidence at their own pace.
Product Updates & Training: Instantly access self-guided courses generated from the latest product documentation and relevant industry articles, so teams can proactively stay ahead on their own schedule.
Client Enablement: Allow clients to navigate personalized learning journeys using your published guides and curated web resources, making adoption seamless and self-driven.
Choose Your Content: Select from available Sana materials, or let the system suggest relevant resources so learners don’t need to specify content themselves. This flexibility supports self-directed learning and ensures everyone can easily find what they need.
Callout: Tutor sessions are designed for focused, one-time learning. If you leave a session, you’ll need to start a new one—so make the most of your time in each session!
Soon, you’ll be able to save your progress and continue your session later, making it even easier to pick up where you left off.
How to create a tutor session
Open the Search Assistant in Sana Learn.
Click on this icon:
next to the chat-box and Create learning path.Choose your content: Select from available Sana materials.
Start your session: The Tutor Mode will generate a personalized course, complete with a multi-step path, images, and practice exercises.
Engage and learn: Move through the steps at your own pace, using the exercises and visuals to deepen your understanding.
Best Practice: Use published and up-to-date content for the most relevant learning experience.
FAQ
Can I save or return to a tutor session later?
Tutor sessions are not saved. Each session is a unique, focused experience - if you leave, simply start a new session when you’re ready to learn again.
What content can the Tutor Mode use?
The Tutor works with any published Sana content you have access to.
Will usage analytics from the Tutor Mode (e.g. commonly queried topics, time spent building learning paths) be available in Insights?
We are looking at adding aggregated analytics for admins to view.
Can learners save learning paths that are created?
Not yet, but this will be available soon.
What content types will the Tutor Mode be able to index / read?
Only self-paced courses that are available for the user. We are looking at expanding indexed source types.
How does the tutor mode work technically?
In tutor mode, three agents work together to turn a learner’s request into an interactive tutoring experience.
Planning Agent: parses the request, finds and vets sources, asks clarifying questions, and outputs a learning plan plus sources.
Outline Agent: converts the plan into a chaptered outline with checklists of key concepts; validates and flags errors if needed.
Teaching Agent: teaches chapter by chapter using the outline and sources, tracks progress, marks the check list, and interacts with the learner via chat.
Flow: user request → plan and sources → validated outline → guided, interactive teaching.
What instructional design principles underpin the design of the tutor?
The teaching agent is prompted to act as a tutor and go through the check list and teach through conversation.
What happens if a learner asks a question outside of the learning plan?
In tutor mode, Sana can only access the sources provided. If a learner asks a question outside the scope of those sources, Sana should respond by stating that the information is not available in the source material and then ask whether the learner would like it to use its general knowledge to answer.