Course Context
The part that knows your class.
Every class your student takes gets one Course Context: the syllabus, the handouts, the dates, the way that particular teacher marks, and the things your student keeps getting wrong. Everything LearnVai teaches is built from inside it — and when something isn’t in there, it says so instead of guessing.
- One context per class, per student
- Built from the teacher’s own material
- Every answer says where it came from
- It tells you when it doesn’t know
The idea
One body of knowledge per class
A general AI tutor knows Spanish. What it does not know is that your student’s teacher spent last week on the preterite, that the unit test is on the 19th and only covers chapters 4 and 5, or that she takes marks off for missing accents. Those are the things that decide whether an evening of studying was worth anything.
Course Context is where they live. Each class has its own — separate from your student’s other classes, and separate from every other family. Upload the material the teacher handed out, add the handful of things that were never written down anywhere, and that becomes what the tutor works from.
It is a boundary as much as a memory. Ask about something that is not in there and LearnVai tells you it does not have it, rather than producing a confident answer that contradicts the class.
What it wants to know
Five things, and the app shows you which ones it has
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Material
The syllabus, the vocabulary lists, the handouts. PDFs, Word files and phone photos of paper are all read the same way, in the background, while you get on with something else.
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Dates
When the next quiz or test actually is, so the study plan can count backward to it across the evenings that are genuinely free.
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Test scope
What the next test covers — which is often narrower, and stranger, than the unit it belongs to. Two chapters, not the whole term.
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Grading
How this teacher marks. Accents, partial credit, spelling rules, the quirk that costs half a letter grade and is written down nowhere.
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Weak spots
The things your student keeps getting wrong, so practice comes back to them instead of moving politely on to the next unit.
How it fills up
Two things you do, two that happen anyway
The first two are an evening’s work at the start of a course. The last two go on by themselves for the rest of the term.
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Upload what came home
The syllabus, the vocabulary list, the packet photocopied on Tuesday. A crooked phone photo taken on a kitchen counter is read the same way as a clean PDF.
Files are read in the background. The context card shows what is still being processed and what is ready.
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Add what was never written down
The quiz moved to Thursday. She takes marks off for missing accents. He is fine on vocabulary and completely lost on ser versus estar.
None of that is in any document, and all of it changes how the week should go. These are course notes, and you can add, edit or delete them whenever you like.
A note that replaces an older one supersedes it: the old version is kept as history and stops being used.
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It notices things you say
Mention something durable while chatting about the course — a date, what a test covers, a grading quirk — and LearnVai proposes it as a note rather than quietly assuming it.
Practice does the same. Miss several cards on the same topic and it suggests a weak-spot note naming the words that went wrong.
A suggestion is only a suggestion. Nothing reaches a plan or a quiz until you have confirmed it, and dismissing one deletes it.
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It tells you what is still missing
The context card shows which of the five it has, which it does not, and names the first gap in a sentence you can act on that evening.
There is no score to chase. A context holding the material and one test date is already doing more than a generic course ever could.
Where it ends up
Nothing in here is filed away and forgotten
- A date
- Goes to the study plan. It counts backward from the test across the days that are actually available, weighting the weakest material more heavily as the date gets closer.
- A grading quirk
- Goes to quizzes and to the plan. A note that accents cost marks changes how practice marks them — so the habit forms in October rather than in the week after the test.
- A weak spot
- Goes to what repeats. Named trouble spots are weighted straight away instead of waiting to be rediscovered, and they steer what the next quiz asks about.
- A document
- Goes to all of it. Practice, quizzes, plans and answers all draw on the material you uploaded, which is the whole reason they look like your student’s class instead of somebody’s idea of Spanish 1.
Showing its working
Every answer says where it came from
Ask the tutor a question about the course and the answer arrives with a line under it saying what it was built from: from your documents, from a note you added, or both.
When the answer is not in the context at all, the line says Not in your materials — and it offers to remember the thing you just asked about, if it is the kind of fact a person could answer. Confirm it and the gap is closed for next time.
That is the loop the whole feature runs on. Practice draws on the context, notices what is not sticking, and proposes putting that back into the context. The class your student is actually in comes into focus a bit more every week they use it.
Questions
What parents ask about Course Context
What can I put in?
Syllabus, vocabulary lists, study guides, the packet from Tuesday. PDFs, Word files and photographs of paper all work — most of what comes home in a backpack is a photocopy, so pictures are a first-class way in, not a fallback.
If I have uploaded everything, why would I need notes?
Because the things that matter most about a class are usually the things nobody wrote down. The quiz that moved. The teacher who marks accents strictly. The tense your student has been quietly guessing at since September. A syllabus will never tell LearnVai any of that, and each one changes what a good week of studying looks like.
It suggested a note I never added. What happened?
LearnVai watches for durable facts about the course — a date, what a test covers, a grading rule, a trouble spot — while your student is chatting about the class or working through practice. When it spots one it proposes a note.
A suggestion does nothing until you confirm it: it is not used in a plan, a quiz or an answer while it is only a suggestion. Dismiss one and it is deleted.
The test date changed. Do I delete the old note?
Replace it rather than deleting it. The new note supersedes the old one, which is kept as history but stops being used for anything. That way the record of what the class actually did stays intact, and nothing is being quietly planned around a date that moved three weeks ago.
Will it answer from general knowledge if the context is thin?
No, and that is deliberate. The tutor answers only from the documents and notes in that course, and when the material does not cover the question it says so rather than reaching for something plausible. A wrong answer that sounds right is worse than no answer, because your student has no way to tell the difference.
Do I have to fill in all five before it is any use?
No. Upload one syllabus and it is already working from your student’s real course. The five are what a complete picture looks like, not a gate — and the app names the next most useful gap rather than nagging you about all of them.
Next step
Start with one syllabus and see what it makes
Set up the class that is causing the most trouble and upload whatever is in the folder from the first week. The context builds from there, mostly on its own.