AskNaro

About AskNaro

A general chatbot answers from the whole internet. Naro answers from one course: what its instructor uploads. Every answer names the lecture it came from, and when something is not in the course, Naro says so.

How it works

An instructor uploads the course.

Slides, notes, recordings, readings.

Naro takes it in.

That course is all Naro knows.

A student asks.

Any question, inside the course.

The answer comes back, cited.

It names the lecture it came from.

Your course stays private. What you upload serves your class and nothing else, and student conversations stay inside the course. The details are in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

About Naro

The AskNaro intro · sound on

What a conversation looks like

Example 1 · a numeric question

when do i use davies instead of extended debye-hückel?

Extended Debye-Hückel holds to about I < 0.1 M. Davies is fitted up to about 0.5 M.

\log γ_{i} = - A z_{i}^{2} (\frac{\sqrt{I}}{1 + \sqrt{I}} - 0.3 I)

A = 0.51 at 25 °C

Davies has no ion size parameter, so there is no table to look up.

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Example 2 · a question about a figure

what happens to the activity coefficient as ionic strength goes up?

It falls, steeply at first.Near I = 0.1 M the coefficient for H⁺ is about 0.78.

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Example 3 · a question beyond the course

so alkalinity is why the pH barely moved in our lab?

Yes. The carbonate reservoir absorbs the added H⁺, and the pH holds.

Lecture 8

Is that how they dose lime at a treatment plant?

Beyond the courseRoughly: plants add lime to raise alkalinity before coagulation. Your lectures do not cover plant operation, so nothing in this answer is cited to the course.

Who builds it

Built by Mim Rahimi, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Houston.

I teach engineering courses myself, so I see firsthand what generative AI does well for students and where it fails them. Surveys and student feedback keep pointing at the same frustrations. General chatbots answer from the whole internet, drift from what a course teaches, and never show where an answer came from. My interest is in AI tools for education that instructors shape and stand behind, and AskNaro grew out of that work. It stays inside one course, cites the lecture behind every answer, and says so when a question falls outside the material. I wrote recently in Nature about how universities can earn students' trust in AI; more of my research is on Google Scholar.

AskNaro, Houston, Texas, USA. support@asknaro.com. Instructors can request a demo from the front page.

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