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Course assistant questions

Route student questions, answer only from relevant course material, and check drafted replies for giveaways and unsupported claims.

Scenario paths

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Steps
  1. Student question type
  2. Retrieved passage relevance
  3. Course material answerability
  4. Answer giveaway check
  5. Answer groundedness
Endpoints
  • Send answer
  • Replace with a hint
  • Explain, don't solve
  • Ask a clarifying question
  • IT helpdesk intake
  • Student support staff
  • Teaching assistant
What each endpoint means

  • Send answer · Automated

    The reply is sent with links to the course passages it uses.

  • Replace with a hint · Automated

    The draft is discarded and a hint-only reply is drafted, which runs through these checks again.

  • Explain, don't solve · Automated

    Explains that graded answers aren't given and offers help with the underlying concept.

  • Ask a clarifying question · Automated

    Asks which topic or lecture the student means.

  • IT helpdesk intake · Handoff

    Platform problems continue in the helpdesk chain.

    Continues in IT helpdesk intake

  • Student support staff · Human review

    A staff member responds personally; the assistant doesn't reply.

  • Teaching assistant · Human review

    A teaching assistant answers questions the material can't, or the checks didn't clear.

Steps

  1. Student question typeChoiceEntry

    Decide what kind of help is needed.

    Question, inputs and notes

    Asks:What is the student asking for?

    Receives

    • Inputmessage
    • Inputopen_assessments
  2. Retrieved passage relevanceScore

    Keep only relevant course passages. Asked once per passage; the branch follows the best one.

    Question, inputs and notes

    Asks:How useful is `passage` for answering `question`?

    Receives

    • Inputmessage as the question
    • Inputpassages

    Branches

    • Exclude: No relevant course material was found.
  3. Course material answerabilityChoice

    Check the relevant passages cover the question.

    Question, inputs and notes

    Asks:Can this question be answered from these course passages?

    Receives

  4. Answer giveaway checkNoul

    Make sure the draft guides rather than solves graded work.

    Question, inputs and notes

    Asks:Does the drafted reply give the student the answer or full solution to the graded item?

    Receives

    • Inputdraft_reply
    • Inputopen_assessments
  5. Answer groundednessChoice

    Check the draft against the course passages.

    Question, inputs and notes

    Asks:How do `sources` relate to `claim`?

    Receives

About this chain

Goal and input

Every question ends answered from the course, as a hint, with an integrity reply, as a clarifying question, with platform support, or with a teaching assistant or staff member.

The student's message, open assessments, retrieved course passages and the assistant's draft reply.

message
The student's message.
open_assessments
Graded items currently open.
passages
Passages retrieved from the course.
draft_reply
The reply drafted from the relevant passages.
How it runs
  • Passage relevance and answer groundedness are the same classifiers used by the grounded support assistant; only the source material changes.
  • Nothing here grades, scores or judges students. Messages about personal circumstances always reach a person.
Sources (4)

Primary documentation this chain builds on.