From question to cited answer.
How Pensa declares what every answer stands on, the rule that governs what it reads, and the modes that follow the teaching week.
One question. Three honest answers.
Every answer declares what it stands on. Grounded answers cite the instructor's files. Outside the files, Pensa says so. Outside the course, it politely declines.
ALG2100 · CanvasWhy does binary search require a sorted array?
Binary search works by discarding half of the remaining interval at every step. Lecture-03.pdf· p. 7 That only works when the array is sorted, because ordering is what tells us which half can safely be discarded. Lecture-03.pdf· p. 9
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Live behavior from the product. This is what students actually see.
Governed by one hard rule.
The instructor chooses what Pensa reads: all visible files, selected folders, or a manual pick. One rule holds regardless.
The file rule
“Pensa only ever sees what students can see.”
A file published in Canvas is a file Pensa may read. Publishing is the only way in.
A hidden or unpublished file, such as a draft exam, leaves no trace in Pensa. Not even its name.
Hide or delete a file in Canvas, and Pensa hard-deletes its copy at the next sync.
Three modes through the week
The chat answers questions. The modes take the rest: before class, after class, and when life gets in the way.
- 01
Prepare for the next session
Key concepts, tensions in the readings, and questions worth mulling. Students arrive with a first opinion.
For the lecturer
Discussions start themselves when the room shows up with opinions.
- 02
Catch up after a missed session
A short summary of what was covered and why it matters.
For the lecturer
One missed lecture stays one.
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Reflect on learning
What stood out, what changed your mind, what still feels unresolved. That is how learning settles in.
For the lecturer
The thinking and the words stay the student's own.
Accessibility by design. Never by disclosure.
Students tune how Pensa writes: length, plain language, structure. The result is what research links to effective learning with dyslexia, ADHD, or autism.
The sensitive data never exists
Pensa never asks about, infers, or stores a diagnosis. No health data, no GDPR special categories.
The sliders shape how Pensa writes, never what it cites.
Demonstration: the sliders change how the same explanation is written.
settings: plain · step by step · analogiesExplain what a recursive function is.
1. Find the smallest task, the one with an instant answer. That is the stop rule.
2. For a bigger task, let the function hand a smaller piece to itself.
3. Repeat. Each round, the task shrinks toward the stop rule.
Think of Russian dolls: open one, and a smaller one of the same kind is inside, until the smallest doll ends the game. That is recursion.
Three of the sliders. The full set also tunes answer length, paragraph chunking, step count, encouragement, and more.
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