Cognii

What is Cognii?

Cognii is an educational technology company whose Virtual Learning Assistant runs chatbot-style learning conversations. It prompts students to write answers in their own words, gives instant formative feedback, offers personalized hints and guides them toward mastery. The company serves K-12, higher education and corporate training.

Key capabilities of Cognii

• Virtual Learning Assistant: conversational tutoring that prompts students to write answers.
• Open-response assessment: evaluates written answers rather than only multiple choice.
• Instant feedback: formative feedback and hints during learning.
• Learning, assessment and analytics platforms: products for delivery, testing and reporting.
• Authoring and integration options: tools for building content and connecting to other systems.

How Cognii works

A student answers a question in writing, and the assistant evaluates the response, gives feedback and hints and continues the conversation until the student reaches a stronger answer. Educators and publishers can use the authoring tools and assessment and analytics products.

Who uses Cognii?

Educational publishers, schools, universities and corporate training teams that want written-response practice with immediate feedback.

Cognii pricing

Cognii does not list prices. Interested organizations are directed to its inquiry and sign-up pages.

Cognii alternatives

Brainly is a student community and homework help platform, whereas Cognii assesses and coaches written responses inside a course. ELSA Speak coaches English pronunciation and speaking. Praktika offers AI avatars for conversational language practice.