For teachers who want to run an AI project with a class and want to know what it actually involves: what you set up, what students see, and what the AI will and will not do. You can find out in one lesson, without your school adopting anything.
Three steps, start to finish. Nothing below is a mock-up of a feature we plan to build.
You do not write a prompt, and you do not build a rubric. Type roughly what you want students to do — no grade, no length, no criteria. Cognity infers the subject, the year group and the target length, writes an analytic rubric with real wording in every cell, and drafts the coaching instructions the student's AI tutor will follow on this task.
The rubric alone is the part teachers stop and re-read. Writing one by hand takes most of a free period.
Publishing gives you a link and a six-digit PIN. Students open the link, type the PIN and their name, and start — no accounts to create, no roster to import, no IT ticket, no invitations to chase. It holds up when thirty students open it at once.
Nothing about this step needs your school to have adopted anything.
Students open the link, enter the PIN and their name. No accounts, no roster.
This is the part that decides whether you trust the tool. When a student asks Jello to write the essay, it declines and offers to build it with them. When they ask for a fact or a source, it looks it up, names where it came from, and asks how they intend to use it. It never hands over more than one example sentence.
And you do not have to log in as a student to see it — the whole exchange is in that student's record.
This exchange is in the student's record.
Age-aware content filters, student data isolation, and no model training on student work — all on, out of the box. There is nothing to configure before your first lesson.
You write the coaching instruction for the task, so you decide what the AI pushes students on and what it leaves alone. Your instruction beats the student's requests.
Every prompt and revision is recorded — so you see what students actually did, not just what they turned in, and so can a parent who asks.
The ones teachers ask before their first lesson, not after.
The free plan is built to answer the question “does this work with my class?”. Once the answer is yes and you want the record to persist across a semester, that is Pro.
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A script for the conversation after a student hands in AI-generated text. Not an accusation, not a tribunal. Five questions that lead somewhere.