AI that knows your course

Simple TA synthesizes your LMS course, digital syllabi, and course materials into a personalized AI-based teaching assistant that can provide support to students 24-7-365. Natively embedded within your LMS environment via LTI, Simple TA offers a seamless, authenticated experience that lives exactly where your students already work.

By dynamically ingesting data from 11 automated sources—including the SIS, digital syllabus, and core LMS components like Announcements, Assignments, Quizzes, Modules, Pages, and More—Simple TA serves as a high-fidelity Course Support specialist. Because the system is time-aware and deeply integrated, it provides students with instant, accurate answers to logistical hurdles: "When is my next quiz?", "Where is the grading rubric for this week's discussion?", or "What was mentioned in today's announcement?" It even pulls from platform-specific knowledge bases to provide technical LMS troubleshooting. This immediate access to administrative clarity across all their courses reduces "friction to learn," allowing students to navigate their academic requirements with total confidence while significantly reducing the repetitive inquiry load on faculty.

Beyond logistics, Simple TA evolves into a sophisticated Academic Tutor and Coach that is hyper-aware of your specific pedagogical goals. It doesn't just pull from the web; it draws directly from your LMS courses, uploaded files, content pages, and quizzes to facilitate deep subject-matter mastery. Simple TA dives deep into the learning outcomes or objectives for the course outlined in the syllabus. Whether a student needs a practice quiz generated from your lecture notes or a conceptual breakdown of a complex PDF document, Simple TA provides scaffolded, context-aware coaching that aligns perfectly with your instructional design. To ensure a safe and productive learning environment, the tool maintains strict privacy protocols: while the AI acts as a dedicated mentor to the student, their specific prompts and queries remain private to instructors, encouraging the kind of low-stakes experimentation that is vital for true academic growth.