What if your AI tutor asked questions instead of giving answers?
— that's GoAsk —
A Socratic AI tutor built for CIS courses and beyond. Instead of handing students finished answers, it asks the next question — the one that gets them there themselves.
Watch it redirect, not answer.
What's the difference between TCP and UDP?
Good place to start — if a file transfer can't afford to lose a single byte, which of the two would you reach for, and why?
A tutor that's read this week's material — and won't just hand you the answer.
Socratic Tutor is where students meet SOC — Socrates and Security Operations Center in one name — gated to accounts from chosen institutions, so your class stays your class, running locally on our own infrastructure.
Every question comes from the real lesson — not a generic bank.
SOC reads this week's actual Canvas content — slides, docs, the overview page — and writes its questions from that, every time.
Source: SOC pulls the real material for the week a student opens — Pages, Word docs, slide decks, PDFs — straight from your live Canvas course. Nothing pre-written, nothing generic.
Question: It asks free-response questions, not multiple choice. That choice comes from a real classroom finding — a Syracuse professor using Claude found multiple-choice questions weren't moving the needle, because students could guess without thinking. Switching to short-answer, graded against his own lecture content, changed that.
Feedback: Get a question wrong, and SOC doesn't say "review the material." It points to the exact spot: Slide 7 Page 3, §2 — the real location in the real document, so the next look is a targeted one.
Recap: After a round, the student gets a short study guide built from exactly what they missed — not a generic summary, a personal one.
This runs on small, locally-hosted models — not a wrapped call to a frontier API — on hardware we own. That keeps course material off third-party servers, removes any per-question cost as a class grows, and means the model never sees more than it needs to.
Your Canvas.
Your courses.
Already wired in.
Not a chatbot. Not a generic AI wrapper. A purpose-built invite-only environment — with live Canvas access, document generation, and AI that reads your actual course content. Nothing to install. Nothing to configure. Just request access below.