Shape the conversation. Surface the learning.
Instructors build conversational assignments grounded in their own material — and see how every student reasons.
1 Instructor defines the assignment
sympos.org/instructor/assignments/structure
2 Students take it in conversation
sympos.org/c/your-class/assignment
3 Insights for students and instructors
sympos.org/c/your-class/insights
The first pilot · Columbia University · Spring 2026
1
Columbia seminar
48
students
380+
assignments completed
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How it works
One platform, two sides of the same conversation.
sympos.org/instructor/classes/new
For instructors
These conversations already happen.
Now they add up.
Students hold hundreds of AI conversations a semester on their own chatbots, where no one can see them. Inside your course, those same conversations become a live map of how every student is thinking.
83.9%
could explain concepts in their own words after using Sympos
74.2%
spent more time engaging with the course material
64.5%
rated Sympos more useful than general AI for actually learning
Stats from the Spring 2026 end-of-semester pilot survey · n = 31
What students said
From the students who used it, in their own words.
83.9%
could explain concepts in their own words
83.9%
felt comfortable being honest about what they didn't know
83.9%
said it helped them genuinely understand the material
74.2%
spent more time engaging with the material
90%
said Sympos is more useful for actually learning than other AI tools
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AI tends to take the path of least resistance and assume you are correct, but Sympos is direct and explains when I'm wrong which is beneficial.
