Bookmarks: Week of Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2026

Generated on June 28, 2026

Cogniti Software-as-a-Service

marketplace.microsoft.com

Cogniti, a multiple international and national award-winning solution developed at the University of Sydney, is a generative AI platform that empowers educators to create, control, and deploy AI “agents” tailored to their students’ learning needs without needing technical expertise.

Educators build agents and mini apps they and their students can trust, using plain-language instructions, and can ground AI’s knowledge in course content. With full visibility and control of students’ conversations and interactions, educators can gain insights into their misconceptions and identify teaching needs.

Integration into popular learning management systems (like Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace) allows students seamless access to agents and mini apps built with care and understanding by their educators.

#AI #Cogniti #Microsoft #UniversityofSydney

Cogniti - Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

teaching.utoronto.ca

Cogniti enables the authoring of generative AI virtual tutors tailored for students to engage with course content and facilitate their learning. Cogniti incorporates key educational features designed for instructors to gain insight into students’ engagement with the platform. Cogniti integrates with Quercus to fit into your existing course workflow. Cogniti is easy to use, accessible, and practical for instructors across all disciplines.

Unlike general-purpose generative AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot, Cogniti is configured to respond based on the content, context, and learning goals you define.

#UniversityofToronto #Cogniti #AI

Purple Complete User Guide - UW-IT

uwconnect.uw.edu

Documentation for using University of Washington’s AI platform

#AI #UniversityofWashington

Purple - UW’s AI For All platform

uwconnect.uw.edu

University of Washington’s AI platform, including tools for teaching and learning. Built on MS infrastructure.

#AI #UniversityofWashington #via:ToddConaway

Assessment Principles Studio

assessmentprinciples.studio

Built by Soroush Sabbaghan to help instructors design assessments to align with the UCalgary Assessment Principles.

This AI-powered online tool helps you explore how your assessment tasks align with UCalgary’s Assessment Principles and generates a personalized feedback report with practical recommendations. The output from this tool is intended to offer an opportunity to reflect on your assessment design, purpose, and effectiveness.

#AI #person:SoroushSabbaghan #assessment

Cogniti – AI agents designed by teachers

cogniti.ai

Higher Ed AI platform developed by USydney. Integrates with LMS (including Brightspace) and lets instructors and students build tools (including agents and interactive applications) with various LLMs. Available as SAAS or deployed on Microsoft Fabric etc. for self-managed software.

#AI #UniversityofSydney #software #Cogniti

Ed Tech Pilot Opportunities | Centre for Teaching and Learning

queensu.ca

Educational Technology Pilots at the CTL Innovation in teaching and learning begins with experimentation. Educational technology pilots allow instructors to explore emerging tools in authentic course settings, generating evidence about their pedagogical value, accessibility, and impact on student learning.

#via:GavanWatson #Queen’sUniversity #edtech #pilot

dsebastien/obsidian-transcriber plugin

github.com

Transcriber converts images in your Obsidian vault to Markdown using Ollama vision models running locally on your machine. - dsebastien/obsidian-transcriber

I tried it on my M2 MacBook Air and holy hell it’s SLOOOOW. MINUTES to transcribe a simple image of some notes into markdown. The markdown wasn’t anywhere near as good as what Claude does just out of the box, either…

#GitHub #Obsidian #plugin #OCR #LLM #Ollama

Zeno Solar Panel Installation

livezeno.com

the solar company that did a neighbour’s house.

#solar