An AI tutor platform, ready for its first cohort.

Active Learning Sciences, Education technology / AI tutoring.

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improvements built by Kodeful and live in production in the first five weeks

Client

Active Learning Sciences

Industry

Education technology / AI tutoring

Service

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Headquarters

Timeline

Sep 2026 -

Stack

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, Vite, OpenAI

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Active Learning Sciences took Alias, its AI tutoring platform, into a new student program with a learner experience rebuilt in five weeks.

What Kodeful did

Kodeful took over day-to-day development of Alias alongside the client's own developer, working from a shared board the ALS team uses to report issues and approve changes. In five weeks we rebuilt the learner experience, gave instructors control over how students move through a course, and fixed the editing problems their designers hit every day, ahead of the College Onramps launch.

The problem

Alias was already running with real courses, but its student side had been built around the engineering, not the learner. Students could not see how far they had come in a course, modules could not be opened in a set order, and instructional designers lost time on small editing problems every day. A new program, College Onramps, was about to put first-time students on the platform, many of them on phones.

Where they are now

The College Onramps program started on Alias in October 2026, and the work continues weekly on new features for students and course designers.

The client: Active Learning Sciences

Active Learning Sciences (ALS), founded in 2018, designs and upgrades courses around a teaching method grounded in cognitive science, for high school and college students and for professionals. Its flagship product is Alias, a platform that sits between the learner and a large language model, so every student gets a personal tutor while instructors keep control of what is taught and how. ALS lists the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Arizona State University and the Indian Institutes of Technology among its clients.

“This looks great, I think everything is properly prioritized.”

Beth Callaghan

How Kodeful helped

What we built

A new course page for students with progress on every module, test and project milestone; a redesigned activity page with the AI tutor, materials and instructions side by side; module locking and chosen prerequisites; voice input and read-aloud in the tutor chat; and a faster authoring flow for instructional designers, from course units and drag-and-drop ordering to a page editor that matches what students see.

The product today

Students open a course and see every module, practice test and project milestone with their own progress next to it. Each activity puts the instructions and learning materials beside a personal AI tutor that the student can talk to by text or voice. Instructors decide which modules unlock in which order, and designers build pages in an editor that shows exactly what the student will read.

Module 01

Course page for students

Every module, practice test and project milestone in one view, grouped by unit, with the student's own progress on each and a summary for the whole course.

Module 02

AI tutor activities

Instructions on top, learning materials beside them and a personal AI tutor below, so the student never loses the task while talking it through by text or voice.

Module 03

Module access rules

Instructors lock modules or require a chosen module to be finished first, and students see clearly what is locked and what they need to complete to open it.

Module 04

Course authoring for instructional designers

Courses organised into units with drag-and-drop ordering and a student preview, and a page editor that shows text exactly the way students will read it.