Cogniti Marketplace Pilot
by The University of Sydney
Putting educators in the drivers’ seat of gen AI – designed and built by educators, for educators
Cogniti, a multiple international and national award-winning solution developed at the University of Sydney, is a generative AI platform that empowers educators to create, control, and deploy AI "agents" tailored to their students’ learning needs without needing technical expertise.
Educators build agents they and their students can trust, using plain-language instructions, and can ground agents’ knowledge in course content. With full visibility and control of students’ conversations, educators can gain insights into their misconceptions and identify teaching needs.
Integration into popular learning management systems (like Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace) allows students seamless access to agents built with care and understanding by their educators.
By building and sharing their AI agents, Cogniti allows educators and institutions to address common challenges with generative AI including inequity of frontier AI access, privacy risks, and a lack of trust between AI, students, and educators. Educators can also create sandbox environments for students to create their own AI agents, under educator-defined guardrails, to further build AI literacy.
Much more than just an ‘AI tutor’, Cogniti is an open-ended platform that allows educators to ‘build their own’ AI. We have seen educators build agents that give early feedback on student work, that help students practice client interactions, that answer common student questions, that provide advice on writing, that facilitate groupwork interactions, that coach students on study techniques, that break down complex concepts, that provide practice questions and feedback, and more.
The platform is educator-friendly, with most creating their first agent successfully within one hour. Agents can be shared with other educators, and there are built-in templates that are evidence-based to enable faster trialling and adoption. Cogniti puts educators in the drivers’ seat of AI so they can make their pedagogical and disciplinary expertise available for more students. It has been shown to improve student performance, build student confidence, unblock thinking, and enhance engagement.