CoTutor
AI tutoring that builds understanding, not just answers.
CoTutor gives every student personalized, assignment-aware AI guidance that strengthens critical thinking and develops responsible AI skills. Faculty shape the level of support for each assignment, keeping guidance aligned with the learning goal.
Assignment-Aware · Faculty-Guided · Built for Deeper Learning
Backed by Apporto's Proven Platform
AI can be a catalyst for learning.
The difference is how it is designed.
General-purpose AI can provide answers without promoting learning. Structured AI tutoring can do more: offer personalized feedback, scaffold student thinking, and keep learners actively engaged. CoTutor brings that learning-centered approach into everyday academic work.
Median Learning Gains
In a randomized study of 194 Harvard undergraduates, students using a structured AI tutor achieved more than twice the median learning gains of students in an active-learning classroom.
Researchers emphasized that effective AI tutoring depends on structured interactions, scaffolding, personalized feedback, and pedagogical best practices.
Scientific Reports, 2025
CoTutor understands the course,
not just the question.
General-purpose AI relies on students to provide the context. CoTutor brings the course, assignment, rubric, faculty expectations, and relevant interaction history into every conversation, so guidance reflects both the work at hand and where the student is in the course.
Shaped by the course, not just the prompt.
Course-aware
Course materials, assignment requirements, rubrics, faculty expectations, and relevant interaction history inform every response.
Guidance, not shortcuts
Questions, hints, explanations, and structured prompts help students reason through the work and strengthen their own thinking.
Faculty-defined
Educators set the appropriate level of assistance for each course, assignment, or activity.
Set the right level of AI help for every assignment.
Every assignment has different learning goals. CoTutor lets faculty set the level of AI help by course or assignment, keeping support aligned with learning without relying on IT for every change.
The CoTutor AI Guardrail Continuum
Students ask broad questions and receive explanations, examples, and conceptual guidance.
Hints, targeted explanations, and structured prompts with limited direct answers.
CoTutor responds primarily with questions designed to guide student reasoning.
Students must make an attempt before CoTutor responds, reducing dependency on AI.
Students ask broad questions and receive explanations, examples, and conceptual guidance.
Hints, targeted explanations, and structured prompts with limited direct answers.
CoTutor responds primarily with questions designed to guide student reasoning.
Students must make an attempt before CoTutor responds, reducing dependency on AI.
AI tutoring, right where students work.
Students sign in through their institution and open the tools they already use. CoTutor brings institutionally managed, in-context guidance into the workflow, so they can ask questions, work through challenges, and receive feedback without starting over in a separate AI chat.
Institutional access
Students use existing credentials, with no separate AI account to create or manage.
LMS-connected context
Course context, assignment instructions, and rubrics are available when support begins.
In-tool guidance
Questions, hints, and explanations appear inside supported academic tools.
Pre-submit feedback
Students can request feedback aligned with assignment criteria and faculty expectations.
See how AI contributed,
not just the final submission.
AI support often happens in disconnected tools, leaving educators with only the final submission. CoTutor keeps guidance and student revisions connected to the work as it develops, creating a clearer view of how learning took place.
CoTutor guides
Questions, hints, explanations, and structured prompts support students without doing the work for them.
Students think and revise
Students build and revise their responses, creating a record of how the work developed.
TrustEd makes the process visible
TrustEd connects that process to the submission, giving educators context for how AI supported learning.
Process-based transparency that supports better conversations about learning.
Built to support learning across the institution.
Students
Receive personalized, assignment-aware guidance when they need it. Build critical thinking, subject knowledge, and responsible AI skills without becoming dependent on answer-generating tools.
Faculty
Set the right level of AI assistance for each assignment, reduce repetitive support demands, and gain visibility into how AI supported student work.
Academic and IT leaders
Offer a managed alternative to consumer AI tools with institutional authentication, LMS integration, consistent governance, and visibility into AI-assisted learning.
Responsible AI. By design.
Built around student privacy, institutional security, and accessible learning. Student data is never used to train our models.
Apporto provides the safeguards and documentation institutions need to evaluate and deploy CoTutor with confidence.
Independently audited controls
Student privacy and education-record protection
Completed higher education security assessment
Designed to align with WCAG 2.2 AA, with VPAT 2.5 available.
Guide learning. Evaluate work.
Understand the process. Secure assessment.
Apporto's Academic AI Suite connects guided learning, rubric-aligned evaluation, process visibility, and secure assessment in one governed platform.
CoTutor
Guides students through the learning process with assignment-aware, faculty-controlled AI support.
PowerGrader
Helps educators evaluate work and deliver consistent, rubric-aligned feedback.
TrustEd
Makes the learning process more visible through behavioral context and explainable evidence.
ExamSpace
Provides a controlled environment for secure, meaningful digital assessment.
Give every student AI guidance
that strengthens learning.
See how CoTutor guides students in the tools they already use, while faculty set the right level of help for each assignment.
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