AI in the classroom created problems and opportunities.
Sympos turns the AI conversation itself into the assignment, and gives instructors real visibility into what every student understands.
- institutions
- 3
- instructors this fall
- 6
- students
- 200+
- assignments
- 600+
The problems and the opportunity
Student engagement
Prior: students drop assignments into AI and turn in the output.
Sympos: the AI conversation is the assignment, so there is nothing to copy and paste.
Instructor visibility
Prior: the instructor only sees final output, heavily influenced by AI.
Sympos: the student's conversation, and therefore their understanding, is directly visible.
Context understanding
Prior: class context lives in the LMS; students converse with AI somewhere else.
Sympos: class context, material and assignments together, lives in an AI-native home.
What Sympos does
Engaging assignments
Upload your material and the assignment is built straight off it.
Assignment types:
- Socratic dialogue
- Teach-back
- Debate
- Open-ended assessments
- Oral defense
Instructor visibility
See what every student actually understands, and get real visibility into where students are getting stuck.
- Individual insights
- Assignment-level insights
- Class-level insights
Contextual understanding
The Sympos AI Assistant holds all of your material for your students, and every student's work across the class for you.
- Student AI Assistant
- Instructor AI Assistant
How it works
- 01
Upload
All of your course material, in one place.
- 02
Build
Sympos builds the assignments off your material. You edit and approve.
- 03
Engage
Students work through them in dialogue, out loud.
- 04
Insights
You see what landed, and what did not.
Student AI Assistant
It sees their class, and only their own work: the material you upload, the structure of each assignment, and that student's own engagement with it. A student only ever sees their own record.Instructor AI Assistant
It sees everything across your classes: all uploaded material, every assignment, your roster, student submissions and grades. Ask it about one student, one assignment, or the whole cohort.What students reported
could explain concepts in their own words after working in Sympos
engaged more deeply with the course material because of Sympos
found it more useful for learning than general AI tools
“I like that it challenges me. AI tends to take the path of least resistance and assume you're correct, but Sympos is direct and explains when I'm wrong.”
Where the numbers come from: End-of-semester student surveys from two pilot courses, spring and summer 2026 (n=31). Self-reported, so it is not a measure of learning gains and is not presented as one.
The Sympos team · luke@sympos.org · sympos.org
Shape the conversation. Surface the learning.