Luminate drafts an answer the moment a student posts, then holds it for a TA to review, edit, or endorse. Students stop waiting for help, and TAs spend less time answering the same questions over and over.
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Four steps, every time. The third one is the reason instructors let this near their course.
They ask on the course board instead of pasting the problem into a chatbot that has never seen your syllabus.
It explains the concept and names the next step to try. It is labelled as unreviewed from the moment it appears.
Edit the wording, regenerate it, reject it outright, or endorse it. The draft cannot be verified without that decision.
The reply is marked with the name of the person who approved it, so students know exactly whose answer they are reading.
Luminate is built for instructors who are open to AI in their course and unwilling to hand it the keys. The teaching stays yours; the repetitive first pass does not have to be.
Every AI draft carries a label saying a human has not checked it yet, and it keeps that label until one of your TAs endorses it.
The tutor is guardrailed to explain the concept and name the next step. Ask it for finished code and it declines and hands the work back.
Auto TA and the tutor are per-course switches. Guardrails are set per assignment, so each assignment can have it's own criteria.
Questions stay on the board where you can read them. Your dashboard reports how much of the answering was AI drafted and how much a human verified.
Auto TA reads the question, the topic tags, and any screenshot the student attached, then writes a guided reply while the question is still fresh.
Upload your handouts and lecture notes and it will consult the right one, so answers match how you teach the material rather than how the internet teaches it.
As a student types their title, Luminate surfaces the question your TAs already answered and offers to open it.
Most of them read it and never post. The ones who still have a gap ask a sharper question, because they have already seen what was covered.
Every question is tagged by topic, so the board doubles as a live map of where your students are struggling and where they are fine.
It also tracks how long students wait for a human reply, and what share of your answers were AI drafted versus human verified.
Everything a course forum already does, plus the parts your team ends up doing by hand.
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One of us was the TA answering the same question for the fortieth time that week. The other was the student watching classmates wait hours on the course forum, then get an instant answer from a chatbot that had never seen the syllabus and had no reason to stop short of handing over the solution.
Students should not have to choose between help that is fast and help that is actually teaching them. Closing that gap is the whole product.
We are taking five pilot courses for Fall 2026. Tell us what you teach and we will show you the board running on your own material.
