The new AI educational assistant chat app at Innovation is definitely one of our most popular applications! It is extremely flexible and reliable for delivering structured, natural, and appropriate interactive learning.
Readers may recall that the Innovation chat feature can be hosted or host-less and can include AI interactions. Teachers license students for a certain number of interactions and teachers define in advance the “reply style” of the AI. This means that teachers set up important guidelines to make the learning experience most effective.
In response to teacher feedback, we’ve added a new set of age group reply style options to help the AI adjust its language and tone even more precisely to the students it interacts with. Alongside the existing CEFR-level options (for world language learning) and conversational styles, teachers can now specify an age group — such as upper elementary, junior high, high school, or college — when configuring the chat assistant.
These age group settings guide the AI to choose vocabulary, sentence structure, and tone that are more appropriate and engaging for the selected audience. For example, when set to upper elementary, the AI uses simpler words and a more encouraging tone; when set to college, it uses a more formal and intellectually challenging style.
We encourage teachers to select one or two complementary styles rather than many at once, to keep the AI’s responses focused and consistent. As always, settings can be adjusted at any time, allowing teachers to fine-tune the experience based on their students’ needs and goals.
We’re excited to see how teachers use these new options to tailor conversations even more effectively. You can find the new age group settings in the AI Reply Style section of the chat setup page, alongside the existing style options. As always, we welcome your feedback — let us know how the chat assistant is working for your students and what additional refinements would make it even more useful.