AI Tutor
A self-hosted Edukali Tutor your students can talk to — step-by-step help on every problem, metered in AI Units so a class is never over budget, with sessions that auto-pause at zero.
What it is
The Edukali Tutor is a conversational tutor students can ask for help on any problem — patient, step-by-step worked solutions and follow-up questions, not just the final answer. Every user gets a free self-serve trial (it runs on DeepSeek models with a small credit) so you can try it before you buy; a purchase then unlocks every AI model and full usage. It is self-hosted (your data stays yours) and metered in AI Units (AU): an Overview page shows your balance and budget, and tutor sessions auto-pause at zero so spend never runs away. Your chats and media follow you through a per-login cloud library that syncs to your account across devices. You launch a session into a full-screen tutor classroom, and can also open it pre-seeded with a specific topic from elsewhere in the app.
Who it's for
Teachers and parents assign it or buy seats; students chat with it. Anyone can start a free trial (DeepSeek only, capped by a trial credit and session limit) without buying first. Full access is purchase-gated (a base licence plus per-seat student seats) and behind the EDUKALIAITUTOR feature flag. If it is off for your tenant, you’ll see a banner asking an administrator to enable it.
Key capabilities
- Free self-serve trial — every user can start tutoring on DeepSeek with a small credit; purchase to unlock every model. - Conversational, step-by-step tutoring with follow-up questions. - AI Unit metering with a live balance on the Overview and a strip inside the session. - Auto-pause at zero — sessions stop before they ever overspend. - Self-hosted — student data stays in your tenant. - Per-login cloud library — your chats and media sync to your account across devices (and a device that switches accounts is wiped clean first). - Top-up flow when the balance runs low. - Topic-seeded launch — open the tutor primed on a specific question or topic from elsewhere in the app.
Quick start
- Open the Overview tab to confirm your AI Unit balance and budget.
- Ensure the tutor is entitled and enabled (a banner tells you if not).
- Click Launch tutor to open a session in the tutor classroom.
- Ask a question or paste a problem; the tutor responds step by step.
- Watch the AU strip; Top up if you’re running low.
The sub-nav tabs
- AI Unit balance, budget and one-click launch.
- Open the live tutor classroom and start asking.