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Instructional TritonAI Tutor

Attention Instructors!

TritonAI is now natively integrated with Canvas, UC San Diego's campuswide learning management system! You are invited to have your Canvas course(s) connected, and your enrolled students can use a TritonGPT-powered AI Tutor to interact with course content.

Key features include:

  • You pre-select the approved Canvas content areas and websites the tutor may retrieve from.
  • Exclude any material you do not want students to know about in advance (for example, assignments or study guides).
  • Acts as a Socratic tutor: Guides students toward answers and asks them to explain their reasoning.
  • All AI models available in the Triton AI tutor meet strict UC San Diego and UC data security and privacy standards, including your data not being used to inform other users' responses.

Join the Fall 2026 Cohort

Sign up to have your Canvas course integrated with TritonAI. We'll verify your request, configure the tutor for your course, and send you a Getting Started guide and video.

Sign Up for Fall 2026

Please note: Because generative AI can still be incomplete or wrong, students should verify important answers against course sources and instructor guidance.

2025-2026 Pilot Results: Student Feedback

81%

Of respondents who said it helped them understand concepts

86%

Of respondents who found the assistant easy to use

67%

Of respondents who want it available in future courses

Results reflect 68 student survey responses over 2025-2026.

How It Works for Students

Each participating course can receive a student-facing AI Tutor configured for that course and made available through the approved course access path.

The AI Tutor is designed to help students engage more deeply with course materials:

  • Acts as a Socratic tutor: Guides students toward answers and asks them to explain their reasoning.
  • Grounded in course content: Retrieves from instructor-selected material while generating a response; students should still check the cited source.
  • Self-paced 24/7 support: Tutor is also available, at your students' pace and on their study schedule.

Instructor Setup & Control

Instructors are the gatekeepers of their course AI Tutor. You control what the tutor knows and how it behaves:

  • Select course materials: Choose which indexed documents and websites the tutor may retrieve from. Canvas availability changes may take time to reach the index. Review the Tutor FAQ before changing access to material already indexed.
  • Set the pedagogical style: Choose Socratic mode to guide students toward answers, or directive mode to provide direct explanations.
  • Multiple tutors per course: Create separate tutors for different units, lab sections, or study purposes.

Guides and FAQ

  • Tutorials: step-by-step instructions for updating your tutor's knowledge base and system prompt.
  • Tutor FAQ: answers for instructors and students.

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