For instructors & universities

Set the rules AI help follows in your course.

Students already use AI to get through school. Polya turns that help into a tutor — one that teaches from what you assigned, follows the policy you set, and shows its sources on every answer.

One dial, four positions

Every course gets an assistance policy. Change it any time — Polya's behavior follows immediately, and students see the active policy in every conversation.

Open

Full answers allowed on request — a fit for self-study, review-heavy courses, and contexts where getting unstuck fast matters more than the struggle.

Guided

Hints and steps first; full solutions held back until the student engages. The default stance for problem-set courses.

Practice

Quiz stance: Polya never reveals an answer before the student commits one. Built for exam prep and the week an assignment is live.

Review

Post-deadline: full worked solutions plus suggested next practice, so a finished assignment becomes a study asset.

Grounded in what you assigned

Polya tutors from your course materials — the readings, slides, pages, and lecture recordings — in the language and notation you teach with. When you've taught a method, Polya follows your method: a student who asks which statistical test to use gets walked through the decision procedure from your slides, not a generic recipe from the internet.

Every claim carries a citation a student can open — the exact page, slide, or lecture moment. Verifiable help builds the habit you actually want in your students: checking the source.

Transparent by design

The policy is visible in every conversation, so the amount of help is never a secret — not to your students, and not to you. Polya is built to be adopted, not banned: a sanctioned way for students to get help that actually teaches.

Academic integrity

Polya's stance is simple: help should build understanding, not shortcut it. What counts as permitted help remains your call — Polya gives you the dial to make that call real inside the tool your students actually use.

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