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New in Labs: AI Tutor
Great questions - we’re glad to hear the excitement! 🎉
AI Tutor’s knowledge is currently limited to the content that’s included directly in the course. While it doesn’t reference materials outside the course right now, we’re actively exploring ways authors might be able to upload supporting documents to provide additional context (for example, foundational information or broader organizational knowledge). Thanks for highlighting that use case - it’s a helpful one.
For videos, AI Tutor doesn’t currently analyze or interpret video content. If key information from a video is included in accompanying text within the lesson, the tutor can reference that text, but it won’t “watch” the video itself. We’ll definitely note the interest in supporting video content more directly in the future.
Really appreciate the feedback! Please keep it coming as you explore the feature!
Interestingly, the AI Tutor is able to answer questions beyond course content. I have a test course on how to make pie. I asked it about how to make pizza and it provided detailed instructions. Thinking it knew pizza as 'pie' I then tried "how to make soup." It also provided me detailed instructions on making soup which is not covered in the course content. When I asked for details on a specific organization, it told me it was "here to help with pie-making." The information that the AI Tutor is returning is not in my course.
Thanks for taking the time to test this and share an example - this is really helpful.
While AI Tutor is designed to prioritize and ground its responses in the content of the course, as you noticed, it can sometimes respond to broader prompts with general knowledge that isn’t directly in the course content. Improving how tightly the tutor stays anchored to the course material - and how it redirects when questions fall outside that scope - is something we’re actively working on.
Your examples are especially useful as we continue refining this behavior, so we really appreciate you sharing them! 🙏