Help students think,
not just prompt.
Coached Thinking is a structured AI workbench where students articulate their own judgment before engaging AI — and account for it after. Built on the COACH framework for faculty who want AI in the classroom without letting it replace the thinking.
AI makes it easy to skip thinking
Students who use AI to draft answers produce work that looks polished — but may reflect no genuine judgment. When the model reasons for you, you don't develop the skill yourself. Faculty lose visibility into what students actually understand.
Coached Thinking makes the thinking visible
Every session begins with a student's own unmediated judgment, before AI enters the conversation. The COACH framework then structures each AI exchange to surface, stress-test, and document their reasoning — producing an artifact you can actually assess.
The COACH Framework
Five structured practices that ensure AI augments judgment rather than replacing it.
Cultivate Initial Judgment
Students commit to an informed recommendation before the AI conversation begins. Their unmediated thinking becomes the baseline everything else is measured against.
Orient Attention
The AI redirects focus to the aspects of the problem the student has underweighted — surfacing blind spots without simply providing answers.
Appraise Reasoning Quality
Students evaluate the logical strength of their own argument. The AI asks them to identify assumptions, evidence, and gaps — making their reasoning process explicit and examinable.
Challenge Before Choosing
Before finalizing a recommendation, the AI steelmans the best competing alternative. Students must engage with the strongest counterargument rather than dismiss it.
Hold to Account
Students explain what they kept, changed, and why. This accountability step creates an assessable record of judgment — and builds ownership over the final decision.
How it works for faculty
Set up in minutes. Students work independently. You get structured data.
Create an account
Sign up with your institutional email. No IT approval or LMS integration required to get started.
Generate access codes
From your dashboard, generate a batch of single-use codes for your course section. Share them however you already distribute assignments — LMS, email, or in class.
Students work through the case
Students read the case, form an initial judgment, then engage the AI through the COACH stages. The whole process is structured and logged.
Review the results
Export full conversation transcripts and structured responses. Assess not just what students concluded, but how they reasoned and what they changed — and why.
Ready to bring structured AI judgment into your course?
Free to use. No LMS integration required. Takes about five minutes to set up.