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Tutoring Agent

Adaptive, curriculum-grounded tutoring an institution owns — available to every student, with student data that stays on the institution's infrastructure.

The Tutoring Agent is an autonomous AI agent that gives every student adaptive, one-on-one tutoring grounded in the institution's own curriculum and course materials.

It meets students where they are, works through problems step by step, tracks mastery, and surfaces struggling students to staff, instead of help being limited to office hours and a waitlist.

This is an institutional tutoring system the school or university owns, not a consumer app. It deploys on the institution's infrastructure, with FERPA and COPPA control and student data that never leaves the institution.

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AI Agent vs. Chatbot

A homework chatbot gives an answer. The Tutoring Agent teaches — grounded in your curriculum, adapting to the student, tracking mastery, and flagging who needs human help — autonomously, for every learner.

Dimension
Chatbot
AI Agent
Execution
Hands back an answer to a question
Guides the student through the concept and checks for mastery before moving on
Grounding
Answers from the open web
Teaches from the institution's own curriculum, course materials, and standards
Memory
Stateless — forgets the student
Tracks each student's progress, gaps, and mastery across sessions
Tools & APIs
Cannot reach the LMS or SIS
Connects to Canvas, Moodle, and PowerSchool to align with courses and surface at-risk students
Data Control
Student data leaves to a vendor cloud
Runs on the institution's infrastructure; student data never leaves it
Model Flexibility
Locked to one vendor's model
Model-agnostic — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, or a fine-tuned model
Safety & Compliance
Generic, age-blind responses
Grade-band-appropriate guardrails, FERPA/COPPA control, and a complete audit trail
Autonomy
Reacts to each prompt
Runs a continuous teach-assess-adapt-escalate cycle for every student

The Tutoring Agent is a true AI agent that goes beyond simple Q&A. It reasons, plans, and executes multi-step workflows autonomously while you retain full code ownership and infrastructure control.

Capabilities

Curriculum-Grounded Tutoring

Tutors from the institution's own course materials and standards, so guidance matches what is actually taught.

Pulls the relevant unit and objectives for a student's course and tutors against them, not a generic syllabus.

Adaptive, Step-by-Step Instruction

Adjusts to each student's level, working through problems with hints and checks rather than handing over answers.

Detects where a student is stuck, adapts the explanation, and confirms understanding before advancing.

Mastery & Progress Tracking

Tracks each student's mastery of concepts and learning gaps across sessions.

Maintains a per-student mastery model and recommends the next best activity automatically.

At-Risk Student Surfacing

Identifies students struggling or disengaging and flags them for human intervention.

Alerts an advisor or instructor when a student's signals indicate they need a human, with the context attached.

Grade-Band-Appropriate Guardrails

Applies age-appropriate moderation and academic-integrity guidance by grade band.

Tunes responses and guardrails to the student's grade band and the institution's academic-integrity policy.

How It Works

Step 1

Receive — Understand the Student

The agent identifies the student's course, level, and current objective from the LMS and prior session history.

Step 2

Reason — Diagnose the Gap

It diagnoses where the student is struggling and selects an approach grounded in the institution's curriculum.

Step 3

Act — Teach and Check

The agent tutors step by step, gives hints rather than answers, and checks for understanding before moving on.

Step 4

Evaluate — Track Mastery

It updates the student's mastery model, recommends next steps, and flags at-risk students to staff.

Step 5

Report — Inform Instructors

The agent reports progress and common misconceptions to instructors and logs activity to an audit trail.

Use Cases

A university wants 24/7 tutoring for gateway courses without the cost of staffing it. The Tutoring Agent tutors against course materials and flags at-risk students.

Higher Education

Extended tutoring to every student in high-DFW courses and improved retention signals, with student data staying on campus.

A district needs safe, standards-aligned tutoring that protects student data. The agent tutors with grade-band guardrails under district control.

K-12 Districts

Provided district-controlled tutoring with FERPA/COPPA compliance and no student data sent to a vendor.

A community college serves working students who need help outside business hours. The agent offers around-the-clock, course-aligned tutoring.

Community Colleges

Improved course completion among non-traditional students through anytime support.

An online program needs scalable, consistent learner support across time zones. The agent tutors within the LMS at any hour.

Online & Hybrid Programs

Consistent learner support at scale without expanding tutoring staff per cohort.

An employer upskilling staff needs personalized reinforcement of training content. The agent tutors on the organization's own materials.

Workforce & Corporate Learning

Higher training completion and competency, grounded in the company's curriculum.

Integrations

Canvas

Aligns tutoring with Canvas courses, assignments, and objectives, and surfaces progress to instructors.

Blackboard

Connects to Blackboard courses to ground tutoring in enrolled content and report mastery.

Moodle

Integrates with Moodle to tutor against course materials and track learner progress.

D2L Brightspace

Aligns with Brightspace courses and feeds progress and at-risk signals back to staff.

PowerSchool

Connects to PowerSchool for K-12 rostering, grade-band context, and progress reporting.

Clever & ClassLink

Uses Clever and ClassLink for secure rostering and single sign-on under district control.

Deployment & Ownership

Full Source Code Ownership

You receive the complete codebase. The institution's tutoring infrastructure is yours to audit, modify, and operate permanently.

On-Premise & Private Deployment

Deploy on the institution's infrastructure so student data never leaves the institution's control.

Any Cloud, Any Infrastructure

Run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or the institution's own servers. ibl.ai is a certified partner of all three hyperscalers.

Model-Agnostic Architecture

Choose and swap the underlying model without rebuilding the tutoring experience.

Zero Telemetry, Complete Audit Trail

No student data is sent to ibl.ai. Every session is logged to the institution's own audit trail for FERPA and COPPA review.

ROI & Impact

every student
Tutoring Access

Extends one-on-one tutoring to every student, not just those who reach office hours.

measurable
Retention & Completion Lift

Always-available, curriculum-grounded support improves retention and course completion signals.

~10x cheaper
Cost vs. Per-Seat Tutoring Apps

Enterprise-wide flat-fee licensing eliminates per-student tutoring SaaS pricing.

high
Staff Time Refocused

Routine tutoring is automated so staff focus on students who need human intervention.

complete
Data Control

Student data stays on the institution's infrastructure, simplifying FERPA and COPPA compliance.

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