BAAI's SoulAgent Enters RDFZ, Expanding Educational Application Scenarios

From October 19 to 24, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "BAAI") made consecutive visits to the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, successively supporting activities including the Haidian District work deployment meeting for Beijing's "Learning by Doing" navigation initiative and the Science and Engineering Practice Seminar, as well as the "AI Learning by Doing, Creating the Future—Artificial Intelligence Empowering Innovative Talent Cultivation Seminar," conducting practice and exchange around the application of SoulAgent in real classrooms, teaching research, and learning scenarios.

SoulAgent is a "personal agent that understands you better the more you use it" launched by BAAI. In educational scenarios, SoulAgent explores how AI can help teachers improve teaching efficiency and accumulate teaching content in areas such as "Help Me Attend Class," teacher AI avatars, essay grading, and teaching Q&A, while also supporting students in understanding problems, expanding their thinking, and continuing to think through feedback, follow-up questions, and other means.

Caption: SoulAgent enters the campus, conducting application practice around real teaching and learning scenarios.

"Help Me Attend Class": Attending multiple classes simultaneously, enabling classroom content to continuously serve teaching research

In scenarios such as open classes, class observation, and teaching research, multiple courses often take place at the same time. Teachers need to pay attention to the classroom on site, as well as record content, sort out key points, and complete post-class reviews. With limited time, it is difficult to cover all courses of interest.

SoulAgent's "Help Me Attend Class" uses AI shorthand, intelligent summarization, and continuous Q&A to assist in recording classroom content and sorting out teaching priorities. Even if teachers cannot enter every classroom, they can review courses of interest after class and continue to ask questions about classroom content, so that "attending class" is no longer limited to entering only one classroom at the same time.

During the activity on October 21, 27 open classes were connected to SoulAgent's "Help Me Attend Class." Through functions such as classroom text organization and teaching point summarization, it provided references for teachers to review classes and conduct teaching reviews. On that morning, multiple research classes were held in parallel, and in the afternoon the event immediately moved into 7 teaching research sub-forums. The classroom shorthand and summaries that were accumulated could also become a common reference for subsequent discussions, reducing repeated review of classroom content and devoting more time to teaching analysis, experience exchange, and in-depth discussion.

From classroom records to after-class follow-up questions, and then to teaching reviews and teaching research exchange, SoulAgent hopes to further consolidate one-time classroom content into teaching resources that can be queried, reviewed, and used sustainably.

Caption: SoulAgent provides references for teachers to review classes and conduct teaching reviews through classroom text organization, teaching point summarization, and continuous Q&A.

Different teachers have their own course designs, evaluation standards, annotation habits, and grading priorities. There is no completely unified standard in real teaching. SoulAgent continuously accumulates teachers' course materials, evaluation standards, annotation samples, grading criteria, and feedback from actual use to form an exclusive teacher avatar. On this basis, the teacher AI avatar can assist in tasks such as essay grading, classroom summaries, and teaching Q&A according to the professional standards of a specific teacher, and gradually approach the teacher's own evaluation standards and teaching methods through continuous use.

In the English essay grading scenario, teachers provide professional references such as scoring standards, annotation samples, and grading materials. SoulAgent's teacher AI avatar brings these teaching standards into specific grading tasks, and personalized grading reports for a class can be generated quickly.

In practical application, SoulAgent's teacher AI avatar can provide students with more targeted revision suggestions according to specific teaching needs, while also assisting teachers in sorting out common problems in the class, typical cases, and directions for improvement, and continuously accumulating valuable content for subsequent grading commentary, lesson preparation, and teaching.

For students, feedback moves further from a score toward specific problem analysis and revision suggestions; for teachers, it can reduce part of the repetitive analysis and organization work, allowing more time to be invested in classroom commentary and individual guidance; for teaching research, common problems and teaching priorities can be discovered more systematically based on real teaching data.

Caption: SoulAgent's teacher AI avatar combines teachers' professional standards to provide assistance for essay grading, classroom commentary, and subsequent teaching.

Entering the campus to communicate face-to-face with frontline teachers and students

During the two activities, teachers of different subjects learned about and experienced SoulAgent in combination with actual tasks such as classroom records, lesson preparation, homework feedback, and teaching Q&A, while students also interacted around scenarios such as knowledge Q&A, after-class learning, and continuous follow-up questions. Through questionnaires, co-creation walls, and face-to-face exchanges, teachers and students shared their practical feelings and expectations regarding AI-assisted teaching and learning.

From helping teachers improve teaching efficiency to providing students with more specific feedback and support for continuous follow-up questions, the value of AI is moving further from "completing tasks faster" toward "better supporting thinking": allowing teachers to invest more professional time in instructional design and student guidance, and allowing students to invest more attention in understanding, judgment, and in-depth thinking.

Caption: Teachers and students experience and exchange views on site around SoulAgent's educational applications.

In the future, BAAI will continue to deepen cooperation with the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China in the field of education, continuously exploring AI educational applications around real classrooms, teaching research, and learning scenarios. At the same time, SoulAgent will further expand into more application directions such as education, intelligent conference services, and expert avatars, so that the personal agent that "understands you better the more you use it" can continue to deliver value in real scenarios.

SoulAgent is now open for registration. You are welcome to experience it through the official website soulagent.world or the WeChat mini program "SoulAgent."