Our students already have an AI tutor, and it does their homework. This is the case for a different one. DSA is built from your own course materials, it gives hints instead of answers, and how much help it gives on a topic depends on what the student has shown on graded practice. You see your class on one page, and in a Sunday email.
One deck, three audiences. Part 1 is for faculty who might put a course on it: what it does for students, the learning science behind each feature, what you see as the instructor, and how much work it is. Part 2 is for administration: cost, privacy, academic integrity, and what it needs to grow. Part 3 is for other universities. Skip whichever part the room does not need. The slide I would not skip is the last one of Part 1, which is what we do not know yet: DSA has not been tested in a controlled study.
What is in it
- The problem. Students ask AI for answers, unguarded answers can lower exam scores, and a prompt alone leaks.
- Three ideas. Hints enforced by code, a tutor built from your course, and help that follows evidence.
- Practice that counts. Mastery checks, spaced review, quick checks, find my bug, Teach-Back and reflection, each with the result behind it.
- What you see and what you control. The dashboard, the weekly email, rosters, exams, class materials and graded rounds.
- For administration. Estimated cost per student, caps and who pays, FERPA and student data rights, integrity, and the honest list of what is not in place yet.
- For other universities. What travels, where it sits among the alternatives, and what adoption would need.
Every cost figure is an estimate from scripted development runs, not measured student use. The screenshots come from a local copy with made-up students. No production data is in the deck.
Presenting it yourself
The slides are plain HTML with Reveal.js sitting next to them, so the folder works with no network. Arrow keys or space to advance, S for the speaker window (a timer and the next slide; these decks carry no notes), F for full screen, O for the slide overview, B to blank the screen, ? for help. Feel free to borrow any of it.