Adaptive learning platform

Adaptive learning platform that adapts to your curriculum, not to its own

Classic adaptive courseware adapts inside its own content. If your school teaches its own curriculum, the adaptation happens somewhere you cannot see and the evidence comes back in somebody else's standards.

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01 Two meanings of adaptive

Adapting the path, or adapting the help

Traditional adaptive courseware adapts the path: it decides which unit you see next inside its own scope and sequence. That works well if you have adopted its curriculum wholesale, and it works badly if you have not, because the path it is optimizing is not the one your teachers are on.

Coeducate adapts the help: the depth of the hint, the vocabulary, the number of steps before the next prompt, and which skill the session is actually about. The path stays yours, which is the only way the evidence comes back in your standards.

Path adaptation

Chooses the next unit from a fixed library
Reports progress against its own sequence
Strongest when you adopt the whole curriculum
Usually a multi-year procurement

Help adaptation

Chooses the next hint from the student's own reasoning
Reports mastery against the skills you name
Works over the material you already teach
Starts with one classroom

Neither is wrong. They answer different questions, and a school with an existing curriculum usually needs the second. The category differences are laid out in the comparison.

02 What actually adapts

Five dials, moved by the student's own reasoning

Hint depth

A student who is one nudge away gets a narrower question. A student who has the wrong model gets taken back a step first.

Vocabulary

The same misconception is described differently to a grade 4 and a grade 11 student. The skill name in the teacher record stays constant.

Step size

How much reasoning the student is asked to hold at once, adjusted by how the previous exchange went rather than by a level setting.

Skill focus

A session about ratios that reveals a place-value problem follows the place-value problem, because that is the thing blocking the ratio.

Mode

Socratic by default. A student who has genuinely exhausted the hints and has no adult available can be given a full worked explanation, and the card records that this happened.

Stopping point

A student who has demonstrated the skill twice is not asked a third time. Extension rather than repetition.

03 The visibility problem

Adaptation you cannot inspect is a black box

The recurring complaint about adaptive systems is not that they adapt badly. It is that a teacher cannot see why a student was routed where they were, so the system's picture of the child and the teacher's picture of the child slowly diverge and neither can be reconciled.

Every adaptation here is visible in the evidence card: what the student wrote, what was diagnosed, what was asked next, and which skill moved as a result. A teacher who disagrees can say so, and the override is recorded.

Session evidence card, grade 3-5 science

Fixed example

Diagnosis

Treats evaporation as the water ceasing to exist

The student describes the water as gone and taken by the sun. The vocabulary is confident, so the gap is conceptual rather than linguistic: there is no model of the water going somewhere.

Next tutoring move / hint only

If we put a lid on the puddle, would the water still leave? Where would it be able to go?

Skill mastery read

Observing and describing change

Secure

78%

Accurately describes what happened to the puddle over the day.

Conservation of matter

Not yet

15%

Says the water disappears and there is nothing left.

States of matter and change of state

Not yet

26%

No mention of the water becoming a gas or entering the air.

Using cause and effect language

Developing

52%

Links the sun to the change but only as a cause of disappearance.

Teacher note

Observes and describes change accurately but has no conservation model, so any explanation involving matter changing state rather than ceasing to exist will fail.

Reteach in 5 minutes

Where did it go, not did it go

Put a small amount of water in a sealed jar and mark the level.
Leave it in the sun beside an open dish with the same amount.
Return after an hour and ask where the water in each one is now.

04 For the person who signs off

Two things a curriculum director asks first

Evidence you can present

Per-skill mastery per student, exportable, with the student's own reasoning attached. It survives a board slide and an MTSS meeting because the wording came from the student, not from a summary.

A privacy posture built for minors

Student work is not used to train models. No advertising, no data resale, deletable on request. Designed around FERPA and COPPA obligations, and our security page states plainly which formal attestations we do and do not hold.

Rollout, procurement and the full sign-off checklist are on the pricing page, alongside the cost-per-student estimator.

05 Comparison

Where the categories actually differ

Category-level differences, not vendor claims. Where a category's answer depends on the specific plan or contract, this table says so instead of guessing. Coeducate is not affiliated with any product named here.

Capability	Coeducate	Generic AI chat	Teacher tool suites	Adaptive courseware
Student-facing tutoring session	Yes	Yes	No, the tools are for adults	Yes, inside their courseware
Per-skill mastery record for the teacher	Yes, after every session	No, only a transcript	No student session to record	Yes, within their own scope and sequence
Works over the material you already teach	Yes, paste or upload your own	Yes, but nothing is retained as evidence	Yes, for planning artifacts	No, locked to their curriculum
Hints before answers, by default	Yes, Socratic mode is the default	No, it answers on request	Not applicable	Varies by product and setting
Student work used to train models	No, never	Depends on plan and settings	Depends on vendor and plan	Depends on vendor and contract
Bought as	Monthly or annual, PO on District	Per-seat consumer or team plan	Per-teacher or district license	Multi-year district contract

Student-facing tutoring session

Coeducate: Yes
Generic AI chat: Yes
Teacher tool suites: No, the tools are for adults
Adaptive courseware: Yes, inside their courseware

Per-skill mastery record for the teacher

Coeducate: Yes, after every session
Generic AI chat: No, only a transcript
Teacher tool suites: No student session to record
Adaptive courseware: Yes, within their own scope and sequence

Works over the material you already teach

Coeducate: Yes, paste or upload your own
Generic AI chat: Yes, but nothing is retained as evidence
Teacher tool suites: Yes, for planning artifacts
Adaptive courseware: No, locked to their curriculum

Hints before answers, by default

Coeducate: Yes, Socratic mode is the default
Generic AI chat: No, it answers on request
Teacher tool suites: Not applicable
Adaptive courseware: Varies by product and setting

Student work used to train models

Coeducate: No, never
Generic AI chat: Depends on plan and settings
Teacher tool suites: Depends on vendor and plan
Adaptive courseware: Depends on vendor and contract

Bought as

Coeducate: Monthly or annual, PO on District
Generic AI chat: Per-seat consumer or team plan
Teacher tool suites: Per-teacher or district license
Adaptive courseware: Multi-year district contract

06 Pricing

Priced per program, not per seat

Annual billing is about 17% lower. There is no free tier, and the privacy posture is identical on every plan.

Classroom

$89/mo

One teacher, up to 60 students, CSV mastery export.

School

$349/mo

Up to 10 educators and 600 students, roles, SSO, scheduled reports.

District

$1,290/mo

Up to 75 educators and 5,000 students, standards mapping, SIS export, PO billing.

Full pricing and Enterprise

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See the adaptation on your own material

Paste a piece of work from the curriculum you actually teach. The card comes back in your skills, not in somebody else's sequence.

Student work is never used to train models. No card required to try the demo.

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