1 · Bot type
What does the bot do pedagogically? Twenty types for students, ordered by the moment in your learning process.
In this programme, AI is not only the end goal — it is also the means by which you learn. In every class you work with AI: bots that explain, give feedback, practise with you and think along with you. That's how you build more skills, faster.
You are trained to conceive, build and manage AI solutions: from bots and agent teams to data management and responsible deployment in your organisation. That is what the programme works towards — an accredited professional bachelor's degree in Applied AI.
But you don't wait four years to use AI: from the very first class you use AI to learn for yourself. Explanations at your level, practice without waiting for a lecturer, feedback at the moment you are ready for it. As a result, you build skills faster and more broadly.
"Learning with AI is learning twice over: you train the skill and you learn the very tools you will soon be building yourself."
Not one bot that does everything half well, but twenty bots that each do one thing properly. Every bot has a boundary: something it deliberately does not do, so the learning stays yours.
What does the bot do pedagogically? Twenty types for students, ordered by the moment in your learning process.
How do you talk to it?
textspeechboth
Which course data does it read?
CanvasBooksHBO-ISharePoint
The three axes multiply. A spoken mock oral exam that also consults the HBO-I competency matrix is an oral exam bot with modality speech and source HBO-I — not a separate type.
Intake bots
1 typeCourse bots · Theory bots · Language bots
3 typesSocratic bots · Case bots · Role-play bots · Retrieval bots · Debate bots
5 typesFeedforward bots · Rubric bots · Peer review bots · Writing bots · Code review bots
5 typesAssessment bots · Oral exam bots · Defence bots
3 typesReflection bots · Internship bots · Team bots
3 typesWhere do you stand at the start of a block — and what are you still missing?
Gauge your prior knowledge at the start of a block and surface misconceptions, so both you and your lecturer know where to begin.
Boundary: gives no grade; the outcome is formative and does not count towards assessment.
Getting the material clear — at your level, in your language, whenever it suits you.
The general help desk for a course: structure, materials, way of working — and referral to the right lecturer.
Boundary: makes no statements about grades, assessments or personal circumstances.
Explain a subject concept at several levels: intuition, formal definition, example and counter-example.
Boundary: explains concepts, but does not work out assignments or exam questions — the application stays yours.
Rephrase the material into plain Dutch (B1/NT2) or give multilingual explanations.
Boundary: simplifies the language, never the subject matter; technical terms stay and get explained.
Repetition is free. What used to be two attempts is now twenty.
Let you reach the insight yourself through targeted follow-up questions rather than explanation.
Boundary: never gives the answer, not even under pressure or insistence. Asks one question at a time.
Take you through a case step by step, with hints that only escalate once you are genuinely stuck.
Boundary: at most three hints per case; after that, back to the lecturer.
Let you practise a professional conversation by playing the client, patient or commissioner themselves.
Boundary: stays in role and only steps out on the explicit signal "stop role-play".
A short daily retrieval exercise on the block material, spread across earlier weeks (spaced retrieval).
Boundary: shows the answer only after an attempt; "I don't know" counts as an attempt.
Sharpen your position by consistently defending the opposite one.
Boundary: takes no moral position of its own and marks the opposing stance explicitly as an assumed role.
Feedback before you hand in, not after — while you can still do something with it. These bots read your submitted file.
Point out on a draft what can be better in the next version, before you submit.
Boundary: gives no grade and no grade prediction, and does not rewrite your work.
Criterion-based feedback per rubric criterion, evidenced from your own work.
Boundary: argues per criterion, but gives no final grade and no overall verdict.
Teach you to give feedback by discussing your review of someone else's work with you.
Boundary: assesses the quality of your review, never your fellow student's underlying work.
Improve your academic writing: structure, line of argument, citation, APA.
Boundary: rewrites no text; points at passages and asks follow-up questions.
Discuss your programming submission on correctness, readability, structure and edge cases.
Boundary: delivers no working code; points out where the problem is and what kind it is.
Knowing the exam format before it counts — and being able to defend your own choices.
Practise with questions at the level and in the format of the real exam.
Boundary: practice questions are not real exam questions; they say nothing about whether you will pass.
Simulate an oral exam or criterion-based interview, so the question format and pace become familiar.
Boundary: practice mode; the outcome is never an official result.
Let you defend your own product by probing your choices and weak spots.
Boundary: probes for ownership, but never accuses you of fraud or AI use.
Around the work itself: your portfolio, your placement, your project group.
Get a reflection going along STARR or Kolb lines and help you evidence it for your portfolio.
Boundary: does not write the reflection and fills in no experiences, motives or feelings for you.
Sharpen your placement assignment and prepare the conversation with your placement supervisor.
Boundary: replaces no placement supervisor; refers on in case of conflict or unsafe situations.
Help your project group with role division, working agreements, ceremonies and early conflict.
Boundary: takes no side in a conflict and makes no statement about who is right.
Alongside these twenty there are five types only lecturers use — for designing assessments, rubrics, curriculum and teaching material. See the lecturer bots →
Email or call the programme team — or view the full programmes on hu.nl.