Assignments designed for post-AI education.
Every conversation surfaces meaningful data to both instructors and students.
1 Instructor defines the assignment
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2 Students take it in conversation
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3 Insights for students and instructors
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The first pilot · Columbia University · Spring 2026
1
Columbia seminar
48
students
380+
assignments completed
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How it works
One platform, two sides of the same conversation.
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For instructors
These conversations already happen.
Now they add up.
Students hold hundreds of AI conversations a semester on their own chatbots, where no one can see them. Inside your course, those same conversations become a live map of how every student is thinking.
83.9%
could explain concepts in their own words after using Socrat
74.2%
spent more time engaging with the course material
64.5%
rated Socrat more useful than general AI for actually learning
Stats from the Spring 2026 end-of-semester pilot survey · n = 31
What students said
From the students who used it, in their own words.
83.9%
could explain concepts in their own words
83.9%
felt comfortable being honest about what they didn't know
83.9%
said it helped them genuinely understand the material
74.2%
spent more time engaging with the material
90%
said Socrat is more useful for actually learning than other AI tools
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AI tends to take the path of least resistance and assume you are correct, but Socrat is direct and explains when I'm wrong which is beneficial.
