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Teacher-designed Spaces, or a recovery loop grounded in the course.

SchoolAI is built around the K-12 teacher and the classroom. Zelvi is built around what happens after a student gets a question wrong in a course with published material, and the record that leaves behind.

Choose Zelvi if

  • You run gateway college, allied-health or workforce courses and need answers cited to the course material.
  • You want every wrong answer followed through: misconception named, re-taught, retried, and recorded.
  • You want students stuck on the same misconception brought into one short live session with their instructor.
  • You need LTI 1.3 launch and grade passback into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or D2L.

Choose SchoolAI if

  • You are a K-12 district and want a broad, teacher-designed AI space for many activities.
  • You want a large library of ready-made activities teachers can adapt in minutes.
  • You need published independent research on its classroom use today.
  • You want professional learning programmes delivered alongside the product.

Feature by feature

Zelvi compared with SchoolAI, feature by feature
FeatureZelviSchoolAI
Primary audienceColleges, allied-health and workforce programmes, with K-12 sign-in supportedK-12 teachers and districts, with a higher-education offer
Answers cited to the course materialEvery grounded answer cites the page; declines what the material does not coverTeachers shape what the AI does inside each Space
After a wrong answerMisconception named, re-taught, retried and recorded; still stuck goes to a personTeacher sees who is stuck in a live dashboard
Breadth of ready-made activitiesNarrow by design: tutoring, practice and teaching tools from the courseA broad catalogue of Spaces and student tools
Crisis languageAva stops, says she is an AI, gives resources and alerts staffFlags crises in real time and connects students to trusted adults
Published efficacy researchNone yet; this is what our pilots are forPublishes research and an ESSA evidence rating
LMS grade passbackLTI 1.3 with roster sync and grade passbackLMS and browser integrations

What SchoolAI does better

SchoolAI is further ahead in K-12: a broad, teacher-designed product, a large activity library, professional learning, and published research on classroom use. A district looking for one flexible AI space for many classroom activities is choosing well with it.

What our side of this rests on

  • Answers cited back to your own material, with the instructor one tap away when the material does not cover itOn our go/no-go benchmark every answer retrieved the right passage, carried a valid citation and stayed inside the material, and every out-of-scope question routed the learner to the instructor rather than a guess — against 54.2% for handing the model the whole document.
  • Students stuck on the same misconception are grouped, and the instructor brings them into one short live sessionGroups are built from the escalations Ava already opened, keyed on concept and misconception, and only students enrolled on the course can be invited.
  • When a student says something that may mean they are in danger, Ava stops tutoring, says she is an AI, gives crisis resources for their country, and alerts the institutionEighty-nine automated checks, covering crisis language in English, Spanish and Hindi, and coursework such as "why does Ophelia commit suicide" that must not raise an alert. The alert email never contains the student’s words.
  • Ava replies in 22 languages and keeps the course’s English terms beside the translationA question in another language is searched against the course with an English rendering, so the answer can still cite the page.
  • See which learners are struggling and which concepts they are stuck onTwenty-nine automated checks on the cohort report, plus five more driven through a real browser.

Questions people actually ask

Is Zelvi for K-12?
K-12 students and teachers can sign in through Clever or ClassLink and teachers can import Google Classroom rosters, but the product is designed first for gateway college and workforce courses where a published syllabus defines what must be learned.
Can a district use both?
Yes. They answer different questions: a broad classroom AI space, and a recovery loop tied to one course’s material and results.

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