An assistant that answers from the course material, not from the internet
Noodle Factory reads a set of uploaded documents and answers questions from what is in them, so educators stop answering the same question each intake.
The problem
Educators and content owners spend a large share of their time on questions that the material already answers, asked again by each new group. Setting up something to handle them has usually meant scripting a chatbot by hand, which is its own project and goes stale the moment the material changes.
Made for the teamsthat answer the same questions every intake
Educators
The same questions, asked every intake. Answering them again is the part of teaching that is not teaching.
Content owners
Any body of material a reader has to work through: a handbook, a course, a set of procedures.
Learners
An answer at the point the question comes up, rather than at the next tutorial.
The platform reads the documents you upload, answers from what is in them, and improves as more people use it.
Upload the material
Natural language processing reads the documents themselves, so the setup is the upload rather than a scripted conversation tree.
Answer from the document
Questions are answered where the answer is in the material, which is also the limit: it does not invent one that is not there.
Learn from use
A feedback loop means the platform gets better the more people ask it, rather than staying at the quality it launched with.
Draft the questions too
A model that generates questions from the uploaded material. The source describes this one as still under development.
The results
The results, as the source reports them. It publishes no figures, so none are quoted here.
Answered on the spot
Learners get a reply when the question occurs to them.
Time back for teaching
The repetitive part is handled, which leaves the part that needs a person.
Better with use
The feedback loop improves the model as more people ask it things.
What we can buildfor you
The same pattern, built around your material. Each idea comes from a service we already run.
Answers from your own material
Questions about a course, handbook or syllabus answered from the documents themselves, with the passage they came from.
Marking and feedback drafts
Drafts feedback against your own rubric for an educator to correct and sign. The grade stays with the educator.
Administrative load
Enrolment forms, scheduling and the email that comes with them, handled end to end with exceptions routed to staff.
Who is falling behind
Reads the engagement you already record and flags learners at risk early enough to do something, with the reasons attached.
Your version of thisstarts with one document
Tell us the material people keep asking you about, and we will tell you plainly whether AI is the right tool.