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About iTELL

What is iTELL

iTELL is an open source framework for developing and deploying intelligent textbooks.

iTELL features

Comprehension checks

Automate the whole process and reduce teacher workload: AI models will automatically create short answer questions, evaluate student responses, and provide appropriate feedback.

iTELL automatically generates summary tasks and short answer questions tailored to your source material. Student responses are evaluated using state-of-the-art systems, ensuring that students understand the content they are reading. Students receive targeted, immediate feedback to help them efficiently address gaps in their understanding.

Teacher dashboard

Keep track of your students' progress: how many summaries they have submitted, what scores they have received, how many chapters they have finished, and more.

Data collection

Automatically collect rich data to further analyze your students' needs. Data automatically collected by iTELL include students' focus time on different parts of texts, the number of notes and highlights students left on different parts of texts, students' summary and short answer statistics, and more.

Completely Open Source

iTELL is completely open source and fully customizable.

Visit the online user guide for one of our textbooks for more details.

Who are the developers

Visit the AI-ALOE website or the LEAR lab website.

Contact us

iTELL is motivated to work with teachers and organizations who are aligned with our mission of making instructional materials more interactive. Contact us at lear.lab.vu@gmail.com to start a discussion.