Building live learning apps with teachers during the Assessment Competence Week, the compilation is now online

On Monday 2 November, during the Week of Assessment Competence, I had the opportunity to build live for an hour with lecturers from higher education. Not a session full of slides, but creating learning apps and assessment apps together in the CivAI Coding Studio, our European environment for vibe coding. The recording is now available online as a 25-minute compilation, with chapters, so you can jump straight to the part that interests you.

What you’ll see in the video

First, I show a few apps I built in advance. A rubric trainer where students assess three short reports themselves and then see how an experienced lecturer scored them, with explanations for each criterion. And a self-scan that enables lecturers to map their assessment competence across five themes. After that, I build a learning app about photosynthesis live, starting from a single sentence in the chat. The AI Companion first creates a construction plan and then builds the app step by step.

Afterwards, the participants got to work themselves. This resulted in, for example, a trainer to practise progress-oriented feedback for pedagogy students, a learning outcomes checker that reviews verbs, Bloom’s taxonomy and the NLQF level, and a route game about the travelling salesman problem, which we debugged live together.

Learning apps without personal data

I’ve seen for years where things often go wrong. An enthusiastic lecturer creates something great with an American tool and then gets a red cross from the school due to privacy concerns. That’s why, in CivAI Coding Studio, you can easily build apps where students can practise without logging in and without providing personal data. Progress is stored in their own browser. Everything runs in Europe, on Scaleway in France, and your data is not used to train models. For schools, there is a data processing agreement available.

In the video, I also answer questions from the audience. What exactly is a web app, how do you share it via Moodle, Canvas or Teams, and what is the difference between the standard privacy mode and the strict mode with a local AI model on your own computer.

The ethical side as well

One participant asked what it means for the planet if everyone starts building like this. A valid question. Token burning is the new diesel, so we want to be transparent about that. Since 1 November, you can see your usage, costs, CO2 emissions and water consumption per project in CivAI Coding Studio.

Thank you

Many thanks to all participants who dared to build along, shared their screens and gave honest feedback. That feedback goes directly into further development. And a big thank you to the Assessment Competence Network for higher education and everyone behind the Week of Assessment Competence for organising and making this possible.

Get started yourself

CivAI Coding Studio is in beta and you can start using it for free at civaicodingstudio.eu. Afterwards, share your app or feedback in the Studio Community—we learn the most from that. Would you like to use the Studio for your entire school or institution? Email pascal@civai.eu, and we’ll be happy to think along with you.

You can find more videos in the CivAI Coding Studio playlist on our YouTube channel.