CLUES Tools
What is LearningClues?.
Faculty / Administrators: LearningClues is an AI-powered platform that transforms your course materials—slides, videos, LMS documents—into an adaptive learning environment. It generates personalized study support, quiz questions, and instructor feedback tools tied to your course content and learning objectives.Students: LearningClues is your course-specific study assistant. It helps you review material, quiz yourself, and get better prepared for exams—all based on what your instructor actually taught.
How does LearningClues work?
Faculty: You continue teaching as usual—LearningClues ingests your LMS content and video lectures, segments it into topics, and generates aligned quiz questions and feedback. You review and adjust as needed.
Students: It pulls from your class materials to help you quiz yourself, understand hard topics, and track what you’ve mastered—automatically.
Administrators: LearningClues integrates with your LMS to automate ingestion of instructional content and align AI-generated outputs with institutional learning outcomes and reporting.
What does LearningClues Cost
Administrators: Pricing is based on per-student, per-course licensing, with discounts for department- or institution-wide use. Low cost pilots are available for evaluation. For more details visit https://www.learningclues.com/pilot-program.
Who is LearningClues for?
Faculty: Instructors seeking scalable, course-specific support for student learning and teaching feedback.
Students: Anyone looking to study smarter and review course material effectively.
Administrators: Designed for departments, colleges, or institutions aiming to enhance learning outcomes, reduce DFW rates, and improve course continuity over time.
What makes LearningClues different from other AI tools like ChatGPT?
Faculty / Admins: Unlike generic tools, LearningClues is course-specific—constrained only to the materials you provide. It references slide decks, syllabi, transcripts, and learning objectives to generate accurate, pedagogically aligned support.
Students: Instead of guessing like a chatbot, it answers based only on your course content—and shows where it found the info.
How much effort is asked of the instructor?
Faculty: Very little. You keep using your LMS and lecture tools as usual. LearningClues auto-ingests materials and offers previews of generated questions. You can review/edit content at your discretion and set when it’s visible to students.
How does LearningClues help the instructor?
Faculty: You get insights into what confuses students, how they’re performing by topic, and which questions they’re asking. You also receive class-level teaching feedback and auto-generated questions mapped to your learning objectives.
What information is available to the instructor?
Faculty: You can view student engagement data, quiz responses tied to learning objectives, a searchable question bank, and AI-generated teaching feedback with timestamps from class sessions.
Can I control when LearningClues is available to students?
Faculty: Yes, you can turn it off during exams, adjust visibility by date, or limit which content is exposed.
Can I see what students are asking or struggling with?
Faculty: Yes. The instructor dashboard shows student questions, what LearningClues answered, and common areas of confusion—allowing you to adjust instruction accordingly.
How are questions generated?
Faculty: LearningClues segments your course video transcripts and LMS documents into topics, then generates multiple-choice and open-ended questions using domain-adapted AI. You can review and approve/edit them.
Students: Questions come from your actual course videos and documents—not random web data.
Are questions aligned to the course learning objectives?
Faculty / Admins: Yes. Questions are categorized across Bloom’s levels (recall, application, analysis, etc.) and optionally linked to your stated learning objectives or outcomes framework.
Can instructors edit or approve auto-generated questions?
Faculty: Yes. You can accept, reject, or revise questions.
How does the system measure student proficiency or learning growth?
Faculty / Admins: It estimates student proficiency by tracking responses over time across learning objectives, showing growth both within and across courses—enabling cross-course and longitudinal analysis.
Are my class recordings and course documents secure?
Faculty / Admins: Yes. All content is encrypted and stored in a secure, access-controlled AWS environment. Data is isolated by institution and never used to train third-party AI models.
Does LearningClues comply with FERPA and other educational data privacy laws?
Faculty / Admins: Yes. LearningClues is FERPA-aligned, SOC-2 compliant, and offers institutional controls for data access, deletion, and usage auditing.
Is student data shared with third parties or used to train AI models?
Students / Admins: No. Student and course data remain private and are not shared or used to train any external models.
Where is the content stored, and who controls it?
Admins: Content is stored securely in the U.S. on AWS. Each institution retains ownership of its materials and controls access via LMS and admin dashboards.
Does LearningClues integrate with our LMS (e.g., Canvas, D2L)?
Admins: Yes. LearningClues supports LTI 1.3 for seamless integration with Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and other platforms.
What does setup involve for an institution?
Admins: A lightweight LTI integration, followed by content ingestion (usually automatic), and access provisioning for courses or departments. Pilot setup takes under a week.
How long does it take to onboard a course?
Faculty: Most courses are onboarded in less than 48 hours after LMS access is granted.
Does LearningClues work with video platforms like Kaltura, Panopto, Zoom, or YouTube?
Faculty: Yes. LearningClues auto-ingests transcripts and metadata from supported video sources, including YouTube links shared in the LMS.
Can students use LearningClues on their phone or tablet?
Students: Yes. The interface is mobile-optimized and accessible via any browser.
How does LearningClues help students study more efficiently?
Students: It surfaces only what’s relevant to your course and helps you focus on concepts you haven’t yet mastered. It also reminds you to revisit material based on spaced repetition.
Is there a risk of students using LearningClues to cheat?
Faculty / Admins: No. LearningClues disables during exams and does not provide full answers to assignments. It fosters learning by guiding students to think and reflect, not shortcut.
What kind of analytics or reports are available to instructors or departments?
Faculty / Admins: Dashboards show engagement by topic, student proficiency across learning objectives, question performance, and class-level summaries. Aggregated data can be used for program-level insights.
How does LearningClues support departmental or program learning outcomes?
Admins: LearningClues maps student activity and performance to institution-defined learning outcomes across multiple courses—enabling program-level assessment and accreditation support.
What kind of support does LearningClues offer?
Faculty / Admins: We offer dedicated onboarding, faculty training, and support via email, Zoom, and self-service documentation. For pilots, we provide weekly check-ins and custom feedback. Submit support requests at https://www.learningclues.com/support.
Can LearningClues be used in non-credit, corporate, or professional learning environments?
Admins: Absolutely. The platform supports workforce training, continuing education, and certificate programs where tracking learning progress and customizing content are key.