Build course materials with AI.
Give students an AI TA.
Upload your lectures, readings, and slides. Use AI to create handouts, quizzes, study guides, and presentations grounded in your materials. Optionally, share a student-facing AI tutor that knows your course and reports back to you.
How it works
Upload Your Existing Materials
Bring lecture recordings, slides, PDFs, readings, and web links. Augment with AI and web research. Works with any content you already use, not locked to a textbook publisher.
Create Teaching Materials with AI, with Your Team
Generate handouts, quizzes, study guides, slides, and knowledge maps from your sources. Ask questions across all your materials at once. Collaborate with TAs in the same workspace.
Give Students an AI Tutor That Reports Back to Your Teaching Team
Publish your space as a course. Students get a 24/7 AI tutor grounded in your materials. Set guardrails on what the AI can and cannot answer. Get dashboards showing what students are asking and where they are struggling.
How Kerns compares
| Kerns | ChatGPT / Gemini | NotebookLM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web research + intelligence on own sources | Full control | Limited | Limited |
| Visual grounding in original source | Limited | ||
| Large source uploads and reasoning | Best-in-class | Basic | Good |
| Create docs, slides, and maps | Co-creation with AI agents | Basic | Upload and AI creates |
| Collaboration | Live collaboration + snapshots | Limited | Limited |
| Publish course with AI tutor | |||
| Analytics over student usage and feedback |
Works alongside Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and any LMS
Kerns is not a replacement for your LMS. Your students access the AI tutor through a simple link. Export content back to your LMS anytime. No integration or IT department required.