Admissions chatbot
Answers program, fee and deadline questions, checks basic eligibility against your entry criteria and books counselling calls with qualified applicants.
AI Chatbots · Education
Education Chatbot Development for Schools, Universities & EdTech
Chatbots that answer applicants, students and parents from your own prospectus, handbook and course material, on your website, WhatsApp and LMS. Grounded answers, with a member of staff one message away.
Overview
An education chatbot that answers from your own content
Your admissions inbox and student helpdesk answer the same questions all year. What are the entry requirements for this program? Has the scholarship deadline moved? Where is my timetable? Why can't I log in to Moodle? An education chatbot answers those instantly on your website, on WhatsApp and inside your LMS or Microsoft Teams. It replies at 2 a.m. to an applicant in another time zone as readily as it replies at noon to a student on campus.
Our chatbots use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They answer only from documents you approve: the prospectus, fee schedule, scholarship rules, student handbook, IT guides and, for tutoring, your syllabus and lecture notes. If the answer isn't in those documents, the chatbot says so and passes the conversation to a person with the history attached. Vikk AI, the multilingual legal assistant we built, uses the same grounding to serve more than 120,000 users in over 30 languages, which is the kind of reach an international admissions office needs.
An admissions chatbot does more than answer. It asks the eligibility questions your team would ask, the way our CanVisas chatbot pre-screens immigration applicants before handing qualified ones to consultants, then books a counselling call and creates the lead in your CRM. On WhatsApp, it can send the prospectus or fee schedule as a PDF on request, as the chatbot we built for AA JoyLand does with its own documents.
An AI tutor chatbot explains concepts and quizzes students on course material. It is set up to guide students through a problem rather than hand over finished answers, and teachers can see what students ask and where they get stuck.
Use cases
AI Chatbots use cases in Education
Student support chatbot
Timetables, exam schedules, assessment deadlines, library hours and campus services answered instantly from your handbook and notices.
IT and LMS helpdesk
Walks students through password resets, Wi-Fi setup and LMS access, and opens a ticket when a person needs to step in.
AI tutor chatbot
Explains topics, sets practice questions and gives hints from your course material, configured around your academic integrity policy.
Parent helpdesk on WhatsApp
Fees, transport routes, term dates and event information for school parents, in English, Arabic, Urdu and other languages.
International student assistant
Answers questions on visa letters, accommodation, arrival and orientation for students joining from abroad, in their own language.
How it works
How it works
- 01Your approved content is loadedProspectus, policies, handbooks, FAQs and course material go into a secure knowledge base that your staff control.
- 02A question arrivesOn your website, WhatsApp, the LMS or Teams, typed the way students and parents actually write.
- 03The chatbot finds the answerIt retrieves the relevant passages from your content and replies from them, in the user's language.
- 04It takes the next stepBooks a counselling call, sends a document, records eligibility answers or creates a lead in your CRM.
- 05It hands off to staffOut-of-scope, sensitive or unhappy conversations go to the right team with the full chat history.
Capabilities
Key features
Grounded answers
RAG keeps every reply tied to your approved documents, and the chatbot admits when it doesn't know.
Academic integrity controls
Tutor modes that give hints instead of full solutions, refuse to write graded work and log conversations for teacher review.
Website, WhatsApp, LMS and Teams
One knowledge base deployed across every channel your applicants, students and parents use.
Multilingual by default
Understands and replies in English, Arabic, Urdu, German and many other languages, including mixed-language messages.
Admin panel and analytics
Edit content, review conversations and see which questions come up most, by program and by week.
Age-appropriate privacy settings
Data minimization, retention limits and content filters suited to the age of your users, with hosting in your region.
Integrations
Works with your Education stack
- WhatsApp Business API
- Website widget
- Moodle
- Canvas LMS
- Blackboard
- Microsoft Teams for Education
- Slate
- Salesforce Education Cloud
- HubSpot
- Uchat
Using something else? If it has an API, a database or a webhook, we can connect to it.
Outcomes
Benefits for Education teams
Faster replies win applicants
Prospective students get an answer while they are still deciding, not two days later.
Fewer helpdesk tickets
Routine student and IT questions are resolved in the chat, so staff handle the cases that need them.
Help when students actually study
Evenings and weekends are covered by a tutor that only teaches from your material.
Insight into what confuses students
Conversation analytics show which topics, policies and deadlines cause the most questions.
Our work
Related Work
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CanVisas AI: Canadian Immigration Eligibility Assistant
CanVisas AI is an intelligent chatbot that helps users check their eligibility for Canadian permanent residence through simple conversations. The chatbot asks pre-screening questions about immigration requirements and provides instant eligibility assessments. It qualifies leads by gathering important information before connecting them with the CanVisas team.
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Vikk AI: AI-Powered Legal Assistant
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AA JoyLand: Customer Support with AI Chatbot
AA JoyLand Entertainment required an AI-powered solution to handle customer inquiries and leads more efficiently. The project focused on developing a WhatsApp chatbot powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with GPT, capable of managing leads, qualifying them, and saving lead data. The chatbot provided instant responses, sent PDFs upon request, and significantly enhanced customer interaction.
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FAQ
AI Chatbots for Education: FAQs
What is an education chatbot?
It is an AI assistant for schools, universities or learning platforms that answers questions from applicants, students and parents. A good one answers from your own documents, books appointments and hands complex cases to staff.
Can a chatbot handle university admissions questions?
Yes. An AI chatbot for universities can answer program, fee and deadline questions, run an eligibility pre-screen and book counselling calls. Admission decisions stay with your admissions team.
Will an AI tutor chatbot help students cheat?
Not if it is set up properly. We configure tutor chatbots to give hints and ask guiding questions, to decline writing graded work, and to keep logs teachers can review.
Can the chatbot work inside Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard?
Yes, in most cases. We embed the chatbot in the LMS through LTI or a plugin and can also deploy it in Microsoft Teams, so students use it where they already study.
Is a student support chatbot safe for children's data?
It can be designed to be. We collect only what the chatbot needs, encrypt it, set retention limits and can host in your region. For services aimed at children under 13 in the US, we design around COPPA consent requirements with your team.
How long does it take to build an education chatbot?
Focused chatbots like our CanVisas and Estraha builds launched in three to four weeks. LMS embedding, CRM integration and tutor modes add time, which we scope in discovery.
Can we update what the chatbot knows each term?
Yes. You get an admin panel to upload new handbooks, deadlines and course material, and the chatbot uses them straight away without retraining.
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