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askFinz
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The shape of an honest answerin a classroom.

Citations by default, code that actually runs, current events as raw material. A workshop you can hand to a class without lowering the ceiling for advanced students.

How it flows
01 · Input
Student

asks a question, drops a reading, or opens a code assignment.

02 · Workshop
Tutor agent

routes through Learn, Research, Search, News and Code as needed.

03 · Output
Cited answer

every claim links back to its source — students can follow the trail, teachers can grade it.

Today · what you can do

Six parts a teacher can pick from.

Not a sequence. Take the one the lesson needs and leave the rest.

Move 01

Turn your own course into study tools

Bring lectures, slides and readings in from Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle or Blackboard, and Learn builds summaries, quizzes, flashcards and narrated recaps from the real material — not from what a model half-remembers about the topic.

02

Tutor-style chat

Hold a conversation that cites every claim it makes. Good practice for the student, useful for the teacher reviewing the trail.

03

Lecture prep

Branch and version a Research notebook for next week's lesson, with sources attached and merges when two threads converge.

04

Code assignments

Hand out a Code project where students pair with the coding agent — it works alongside, not instead of, the learner.

05

Current-events units

Build the week's reading from deduped, multi-source news clusters. The world becomes the textbook, with citations.

06

Document storage

Reading lists, drafts and rubrics live in versioned folders the rest of the workshop can search semantically.

What the reading list is built from

Course material, long-form works and the research under them.

Alongside whatever you import yourself. Each of these is a reference page you can read before you set it as reading.

What a programme actually teaches, read from the institution rather than a directory's summary of it.

Product manuals and book-length texts read page by page — including the ones published only as documents.

Open-access research read in full — with the datasets a finding rests on kept alongside the write-up.

The settled account of a subject, read from the maintained entry rather than a copy of it.

Students working on their own projects have their own page: AI for student research.

Shapes of work

Four jobs the classroom hands over.

Flow 01

Curriculum drafting

Sketch a term plan from a learning objective. The Writer drafts the unit outline, the Researcher attaches readings to each lesson, the Summariser builds the one-page recap a substitute can teach from. Editable, versioned, ready for the department head review.

Flow 02

Research advisor mode

Sit beside a student working on their independent project. The workshop questions before it answers — pushing for the source, the assumption, the alternative reading — and never claims a fact it can't cite. The trail of work is the assessment artefact.

Flow 03

Tutoring workflows

A class of thirty, each on their own thread, each at their own pace. The Tutor agent holds the line on rigour — Socratic where it should be, direct where the student is stuck — while progress analytics show who has stalled and where.

Flow 04

Assignment grading assist

Drop a submission against a rubric. The workshop suggests a band, marks the rationale next to each criterion and flags passages it can't fairly judge. A first pass that respects the teacher's final call — never a hidden one.

One workflow, end-to-end

Building a current-events case study for next week.

Four steps across the workshop, each shipping today.

  1. 01
    NewsAvailable

    Pick the cluster.

    Skim the week's deduped multi-source news clusters. The same story read four ways collapses into one — exactly the teaching moment you want when the syllabus says 'evaluate sources'.

  2. 02
    ResearchAvailable

    Deepen it into a case.

    Pull the cluster into a Research notebook. Branch a thread for each angle — economic, ethical, technical. Citations are first-class, so the case study models the citation discipline you want from students.

  3. 03
    CodeAvailable

    Build the data-viz handout.

    Open a Code project. Pair with the coding agent to turn the underlying numbers into a chart students can read in five seconds. The agent runs the formatting passes alongside; you keep the editorial call.

  4. 04
    StorageAvailable

    Drop it in the course folder.

    Export the case study and the chart into the term's versioned Storage folder. Next year's class starts from the artefact, not from a fresh search — and the version history shows what you changed.

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Data

Drop a file, ask a question, get a chart. No formulas required.

  • —Dataset-driven labs in Data — drop the CSV, ask the question, run the analysis.

Questions

Frequently asked.

Will askFinz write a student's assignment for them?

The workshop is Socratic by design — it asks for the source, pushes for the alternative reading, and works alongside the student rather than instead of them. The trail of the conversation is visible and makes a useful assessment artefact in itself.

Does askFinz work with our existing LMS?

Yes, for course material. Learn imports courses from Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle and Blackboard — lectures, slides and readings are read page by page and become the source the study tools are built from. Artefacts made elsewhere in the workshop still export from Storage and are uploaded back manually; there is no grade write-back.

How does assessment work?

Learn writes a timed exam from your own course material, grades it on the server, applies browser-level proctoring and gives an AI debrief on every attempt. Progress analytics build from the real attempts, so weak topics and exam readiness come from what a student actually did rather than from self-report.

Is askFinz suited to a whole class or just individual teachers?

Both. Teachers use Research and Storage to build lesson artefacts, and Learn to turn a course into study and assessment tools. Students work on their own threads at their own pace, each with their own progress record.

For education teams

Bring your course, not a demo dataset.

We'll walk a department through the rooms that are open today and what a class actually does in them.

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