Your Smart Board
Becomes A Teacher
Many schools now have an interactive board or smart panel on the wall. Cognita is the lesson on it: an AI tutor that teaches your syllabus out loud while it writes notes and formulas on the board, builds simulations and 3D models, and runs virtual lab practicals the whole class can see and touch. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
What Happens On The Board
One screen at the front of the room, used the way a good teacher uses a chalkboard, with a lab, a model shop and a library behind it.
LIVE NOTES
The tutor writes notes, formulas and worked examples on the board as it speaks, and the board keeps its history so you can scroll back through the lesson.
SIMULATIONS
It builds an interactive simulation on the spot: change a variable, run it again, and let the class predict what happens next.
3D MODELS
Cells, molecules, machines and the solar system in 3D, turned and taken apart on the board with a finger.
VIRTUAL PRACTICALS
Run a chemistry, physics or biology practical at the front of the class when there is no lab, no apparatus or no time to set one up.
Made For The Classroom
YOUR SYLLABUS
The tutor teaches the curriculum your school follows: Kenyan CBE and KCSE, Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel or the IB.
SPEAKS AND LISTENS
Learners ask questions out loud and the tutor answers out loud, so the whole room hears the explanation.
ANY BOARD, ANY BROWSER
Cognita is a web app. Open it in the browser on your interactive panel, smart board, projector laptop or a learner's phone.
AFTER THE LESSON
Set an assignment that marks itself or that you mark, and see each learner's results in your teacher dashboard.
Got New Smart Boards? Here Is What To Put On Them
Interactive boards are arriving in classrooms across Kenya and the rest of Africa, often before the lessons to run on them. A board with nothing to teach is an expensive whiteboard.
Cognita gives it a lesson for every subject on your timetable from the first day: a teacher signs in on the board's browser, picks the class's subject and topic, and the AI tutor teaches it, with the teacher in charge of the pace.
Questions
Does Cognita work on our school's interactive board?
Yes, if the board or the computer driving it has a modern web browser and an internet connection. Cognita runs in the browser, so there is no software to install on the panel.
Do you sell the interactive boards themselves?
No. Cognita is the teaching software for the board: the AI tutor, the live board, simulations, 3D models and virtual labs. Use it with the board your school already has.
Which subjects and syllabuses can it teach on the board?
The subjects of the Kenyan CBE and KCSE, Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel and the IB. The tutor teaches from the syllabus you choose.
Can a teacher control the lesson?
Yes. The teacher chooses the topic, pauses the tutor, asks it to explain again or differently, and moves on when the class is ready.