The AI workspace for your syllabi

The AI workspace for your syllabi

Your syllabi are PDFs you downloaded during the first week of term, saved in a folder you haven't opened since, or in an email you'd have to search for. When you need to know the reading for next week, you find the PDF, open it, scroll to the right week, and hope the schedule hasn't changed since it was published. When you want to know whether two courses overlap on a topic, you'd have to open both syllabi and compare them manually. When the AI tutor doesn't know your course structure, it's because you forgot to upload the document that defines it.

The syllabus is the most important document for making an AI tutor work. It defines the course structure, the weekly topics, the readings, the assessments, the deadlines, and the learning outcomes. Upload it first and everything else your AI tutor does becomes more useful because it has the map of your course.

The AI reads your syllabi

Upload your syllabi to Fabric and the AI tutor reads them. It knows your course structure, your weekly topics, your reading list, your assessment schedule, and your deadlines. Ask it "what's the reading for week 7" and it tells you. Ask "when is the essay due" and it knows. Ask "what topics does this course cover that my other course also covers" and it compares across syllabi.

The AI doesn't just retrieve information from the syllabus. It uses the syllabus to contextualise everything else you upload. When you add readings, it knows which week they belong to. When you record a lecture, it knows where it falls in the course structure. The syllabus gives the AI the scaffolding to make sense of your materials.

Search across every course

AI search reads inside every syllabus and searches by meaning. "Which course covers research methods" finds the relevant section across every syllabus you've uploaded. "Every assessment due in November" finds them across courses. "Courses that include a group project component" finds the assessment sections. The search works by concept, so it finds relevant sections even when different professors describe similar content differently.

Plan your semester from one view

With every syllabus uploaded, you can ask the AI assistant to map out your semester: all deadlines, all readings, all assessments across every course. Identify the busy weeks. Spot the conflicts. Plan your time based on the full picture rather than checking each syllabus separately.

Use the canvas to lay out your semester visually: weeks, deadlines, readings, and assessments arranged spatially. The syllabus data becomes a planning tool.

Connected to everything else

The syllabus doesn't live in isolation. It's searchable alongside your lecture recordings, your annotated readings, your notes, and your assignments. When you're working on an essay and need to check which readings were assigned for the relevant topic, the syllabus and the readings are findable in the same search.

Annotations let you mark up the syllabus: note which readings you've completed, flag topics you need to revisit, add context from the first lecture about what the professor emphasised. Your annotations are searchable across your library.

One place across every term

Most students take twenty to forty courses across a degree. The syllabi from earlier courses are useful reference points: "what was the reading list for the intro stats course" when you need a refresher, or "which course covered qualitative methods" when you're choosing an approach for your dissertation. Keeping every syllabus in one searchable library means the full structure of your degree is accessible.

For the full student workspace, see Fabric for students. For the AI tutor approach, see AI tutoring. For managing readings, see research papers and lecture notes.

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Upload your syllabi and give your AI tutor the map of your courses. Try Fabric free.

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FAQs

Does the AI read my syllabus?

Yes. The AI tutor reads every uploaded syllabus and knows your course structure, readings, assessments, and deadlines.

Can it tell me what's due and when?

Yes. Ask the AI assistant about deadlines across any course. It answers from the syllabi you've uploaded.

Can it compare topics across courses?

Yes. Ask which courses cover overlapping topics. The AI searches across every syllabus by meaning.

Can I search across syllabi from previous terms?

Yes. Every syllabus stays in your library and is searchable. Past course structures remain accessible throughout your degree.

Can I annotate the syllabus?

Yes. Annotations let you mark progress, flag topics, and add context from lectures.

Can I plan my semester from the syllabi?

Yes. Ask the AI to map out all deadlines and assessments. Use the canvas for visual semester planning.

Does uploading the syllabus make the AI tutor better?

Yes. The syllabus gives the AI the course structure it needs to contextualise your lectures, readings, and notes.

Is my data private?

Yes. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant. Your data is never used to train AI models.