AI Student Hints Overview
AI Student Hints is a feature within the Code Editor that enables students to receive guidance from Karel AI while working on assignments. This tool can help support students who are unsure how to approach a problem by offering direction and hints, without revealing the solution.
Turn On/Off AI Student Hints
You will need to enable this feature in the AI Hints App before students can use AI Student Hints. To toggle this feature:
In the AI Hints App navigate to AI Student Hints Settings
Select a Section from the Section drop-down menu in the top left
Toggle the setting to Enable/Disable For All Students or Select Students in your section
How Students Access AI Student Hints
To access AI Student Hints, click on the Chat Icon on the left-hand side of the Code Editor.
Students are provided with four predefined prompts to assist them while coding:
I’m not sure where to start
Students can choose this option when they would like guidance on the first step of an assignment or need more clarification on the directions.
Give me a hint
Students can choose this option when they would like guidance on the next step of the assignment or need assistance in building off their current code.
Why is my code crashing?
Students can choose this option when their program is not working properly, and the AI can assist in identifying sources of errors.
Why is the autograder failing?
Students can choose this option when they would like AI to look at certain test cases and identify how the student’s program is not producing the expected result of the autograder.
Students can choose among these prompts to direct the AI on what part of the assignment they need assistance with.
💡Karel AI responses are intended to provide hints and guidance, not direct answers. There is no chat function with the AI. Students are only allowed to choose one of the prompts above to interact with the AI.
Students can highlight specific text in their code to direct the AI's attention to a particular part of their program and get more specific assistance. To do so Highlight to Hint must be enabled.
To adjust Highlight to Hint setting:
Click on the Gear Icon on the left-side of the Code Editor
Scroll down to AI Student Hints Settings
Toggle Highlight to Hint
Monitoring AI Student Hints
To view AI Student Hints for your entire section:
Go to the AI Hints App
Select the Student Usage Dashboard
Use the dropdown to view a certain Section, Student, and/or Module
View the hints a student used on an assignment and view the AI Response by clicking the number of hints used.
To view AI Student Hints in your Students' Editor:
Navigate to the student's assignment that you would like to see the AI Chat History for and view the student's Code Editor.
Click on the Chat Icon on the left hand navigation.
To view AI Student Hints in Fast Grade or AI Grading:
Click on the messages icon in the righthand shortcuts menu.
View each AI Hint prompted by the selected student in the pop-up modal.
AI Student Hints Limitations
Students have a five-message daily limit.
Video Demo
AI Student Hints is available as part of CodeHS Pro. To get CodeHS Pro for your school, contact our team at sales@codehs.com.