00 —AI Tutor Assistant
Are you ready to transform your teaching experience and make learning more engaging, personalized, and effective? AI Tutor Assistant (AI TA) was designed to empower educators and improve the learning journey for learners.
01 — The Opportunity
Helping tutors plan better lessons with AI
Unlike most of the products I worked on at Orcas, the AI Tutor Assistant wasn't driven by an existing usability problem. It was an experimental initiative inspired by the growing potential of AI to support educators.
The goal wasn't to replace tutors or automate teaching. Instead, we wanted to explore how AI could become a practical assistant that helped tutors prepare structured lesson plans, especially those who were new to teaching or unfamiliar with lesson planning.
02 — The Research
Understanding what makes a good lesson plan.
Before designing the experience, we collaborated with Orcas' experienced teaching staff to understand what information tutors actually consider when preparing a session.
We also experimented internally with different prompt structures and held workshops to identify which combinations consistently produced useful lesson plans. Those experiments helped define the information the interface needed to collect.
03 — Designing the Conversation
I designed the experience as a guided conversation. Instead of asking users to “write a prompt,” the interface gradually collected the information the AI needed through a series of simple questions.
Behind the scenes, those answers were translated into a structured prompt that generated the final lesson plan. The interaction focused on teaching goals.
04 — Structuring the Input
05 — Final Experience
A structured flow from teaching goals to lesson plans.
The final flow guided tutors through a short series of questions before generating an AI assisted lesson plan tailored to their students, objectives, and teaching preferences.
The conversation is primarily designed for one tap interactions, minimizing the need to write prompts. This approach is faster and more controlled, reducing the chances of AI hallucinations.
Homework settings should be designed to reduce stress for students by providing a clear plan that engages them after lessons.
The outcome can be reloaded, reset, saved, and retrieved from earlier results.