From Surface Learning to Deep Understanding: A Grounded AI Tutoring System for Moodle

Ostrowska, Anna; Kukla, Michał; Majstrak, Gabriela; Opala, Jan; Pergała, Sebastian; Skwarek, Jan; Wróblewska, Anna

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/984

From Surface Learning to Deep Understanding: A Grounded AI Tutoring System for Moodle

Anna Ostrowska, Michał Kukla, Gabriela Majstrak, Jan Opala, Sebastian Pergała, Jan Skwarek, Anna Wróblewska

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8479-8482.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/984

Keywords

AI: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications
AI: Natural Language Processing
AI: Search
AI: Humans and AI

Abstract

This demo paper describes the development of the AI Teaching & Learning Assistant, a modular Moodle plugin that leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver high-quality, highly

selective answers strictly grounded in teachers’ materials. The system employs a dual-centric design, providing students with interactive, Socratic-based tutoring options and educators with a “human-in-the-loop” workspace for supervised content generation, e.g., quizzes, tasks, or short summaries. By grounding Large Language Model (LLM) responses in teacher-provided materials, the assistant addresses the risks of misinformation while encouraging deep conceptual mastery. Evaluation via the LLM-as-a-Judge framework and a preliminary user study confirms its effectiveness, achieving faithfulness scores up to 0.97 and a 4.00/5.00 recommendation rate.

Demo Video: https://tinyurl.com/4zz4bcjn

Anna Ostrowska, Michał Kukla, Gabriela Majstrak, Jan Opala, Sebastian Pergała, Jan Skwarek, and Anna Wróblewska. 2026. From Surface Learning to Deep Understanding: A Grounded AI Tutoring System for Moodle. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8479–8482. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/984

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