Teach With All the Benefits of the Platform

Use our intuitive course builder to develop engaging, hands-on lessons. All the submissions made by students will be automatically checked by the platform freeing up many hours from teachers’ day. The instant feedback provided by the platform boosts the engagement of the students and improves the learning process.

We want to make sure that there are no language barriers when teaching computer science:

• Reuse content that already has translations in different languages.
• Add your own translations.

Our platform technically supports all languages.

Create editorials for students to see the correct solution and reasoning behind the solution of the exercise. You can configure the editorial to be:

• Always visible to everyone (best for tutorials)
• Visible after students solve the exercise (best for explanations of difficult exercises)
• Only visible to instructors (best for teacher notes)

Help students gain close-to real-world experience with projects. Students can submit projects that are evaluated and graded similarly to single-file submissions.

Profound Academy supports several assessment questions:

• Multiple Choice (single-choice answers)
• Checkbox Answers
• Text Answers

Configure certain sections of the course to gradually get unlocked for students as they progress throughout the course.

This is especially helpful for:

• Extracurricular exercises,
• Additional materials,
• Recap chapters (to recall the learned materials),
• Bonus exercises.

Creating a healthy environment where knowledge and hard work is rewarded is one of the most important things that educational institutions do to prepare great professionals. In the recent years, many schools and universities struggle with cheating as a lot of students use AI tools like ChatGPT to do their homework and help them during exams.

Teachers can track the entire coding process, not just the final submission:

• Time-based coding history shows how the code was written.
• Code snapshots reveal the evolution of the solution.
• Events like tab switches and copy-pasting are logged for review.
• Detailed reports help instructors make informed decisions.

Empower instructors with ultimate control over cheating cases:

• Platform highlights suspicious activity or submissions.
• Instructors can review all flagged instances and see detailed reports.
• Final decision always rests with course staff, ensuring contextual fairness.

The AI Assistant helps students find their mistakes faster and point them in the right direction, without revealing the solution. It will answer the most common questions helping teachers focus on providing high-quality education.

Some exercises, like theorem proofs, require non-deterministic checking of solutions.

To help teachers automatically check all the solutions for such exercises, the AI Checker can take care of such exercises.

Teachers can refine the performance of the AI Checker by optionally providing:

1. Grading Rubric: To better guide the grading process.
2. Example Solutions: Both correct and incorrect solutions with their corresponding grades will improve the performance of AI Checker.

That way, teachers can automatically check hundreds of solutions in minutes instead of hours if not days.

To make sure the forum stays a respectful place and no one can post a solution, we have developed an AI Moderator that checks all the comments before they become public.

• Spam comments are reported to course instructors.
• Instructors can block students or mark the comment as appropriate.
• Reported comments are only visible to the course instructors.
• Students are not notified about comments if they are reported or deleted.
• Instructors have full control over the forum.

Teachers can track the success rate of all the exercises. That way, they can discuss the most challenging ones in class to ensure everyone is on the same page.

Live coding allows you to see updates as students write code in real-time, enabling you to provide instantaneous assistance and feedback. This is especially useful for remote teaching and problem-solving sessions.

Upon completion of the course, students get an official certificate from Profound Academy which can help them build their portfolio.

Yes. To do that:

1. Navigate to the EDIT tab of the course.
2. Then click on the toggle of showing/hiding the progress ranking for students.

Note that:

• Course editors and instructors will still see the ranking.
• The ranking will only be hidden for students.

Yes. Everything happening on the platform is fully transparent. So, instructors can monitor the activity and prevent unwanted behavior. Navigate to the AI ASSISTANT tab of the course. After which you’ll see all the conversations with the AI Assistant.

Yes. In fact, many courses have such exercises. To do that, you’ll need to:

1. Host the interactive section as a single web page.
2. Embed that URL in the Notion page of the exercise.
3. Wait a bit and the interactive section will appear on Profound Academy.

Navigate to the USERS tab of the course. After which follow these steps:

1. In the INVITATION EMAILS section, paste all the emails of students you’d like to invite.
2. Write the subject line and the email text, and then click SEND INVITES.
3. Students should receive an invitation within 5 minutes.

Note: They would use EXACTLY the same email address when signing up on Profound Academy to be able to access the course.

Navigate to the USERS tab of the course. Then:

1. Click on the + ADD GROUP button.
2. Give your group a name
3. After which search for the students you’d like to add to that group/class/section. You can do that either with their names or their emails.
4. Click SAVE.

Navigate to the PROGRESS tab of the course for progress or the SUBMISSIONS tab to see the submissions. Instead of selecting a group, click on the search section of the dropdown. Search for the student by their name and click on their profile.

Yes. Navigate to the EDIT tab of the exercise. Scroll down and select Custom for the Checker field. That will open a text editor where you can implement your custom program.

The program will have access to all the necessary information to grade the work (submission, input, expected output, etc.) The custom checker can be implemented in any programming language.

Yes. Test cases can contain binary files as well. Those can be images, binary assets, videos, etc.

• Public test cases are limited to 64KB per file.
• Private test cases don’t have such limits.

Yes. You can create an editorial and then set its visibility to Private. That will ensure that only the course instructors see it. That way, you’ll have a convenient way of sharing private notes between instructors.