Raison AI Tutor: AI Teaching Assistant for Courses

Raison adds AI teaching assistants — AI tutors and course chatbots — directly inside your Moodle courses. The plugin turns your existing course content into an interactive AI assistant that answers learner questions 24/7, grounded in your own materials. No API keys to configure, no LTI setup, no coding.

If you are looking for a way to bring ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral or other large language models into your Moodle instance, Raison is the ready-made answer: it handles the AI infrastructure, the course-content grounding and the learner experience for you, so you do not have to build or host anything yourself.

What the plugin does

Raison connects your Moodle instance to the Raison platform and embeds an AI tutor into any course you choose. The assistant is built from that course's own resources — files, pages, lessons and SCORM packages — so answers stay grounded in your material rather than generic web knowledge. Learners chat with it without ever leaving Moodle.

It is designed for training organisations, universities, schools and companies that want to give learners always-available, course-specific support without adding to trainer workload.

Key features

For trainers and instructional designers

• Create an AI teaching assistant from a Moodle course in a few clicks, with course resources preloaded
• Add extra documents and sources to improve the assistant's answers
• Customise the assistant's tone, behaviour and scope
• Track learner interactions, trending questions and usage analytics
• Update source material at any time and the assistant stays in sync

For learners

• An AI tutor embedded natively in the course, as a side panel or floating chatbot
• Instant, course-specific answers to questions, available around the clock
• Self-assessment through an AI-generated question bank validated by the trainer
• A continuous conversation that picks up where they left off, with auto-evaluation mode
• Available in 12 languages, matching the learner's Moodle language

Where you access Raison

Before you install

Raison is an external service. This plugin connects your Moodle instance to the Raison platform, where the AI assistants are hosted and run. Installing the plugin creates a Raison account for your organisation.

Your Moodle instance must be reachable over the public internet. Instances running on localhost, on internal-only networks, or behind a firewall with no external access cannot use assistant creation or learner authentication.

No manual API key or LTI configuration is required — the plugin provisions everything automatically.

Installation and getting started

Installing the plugin automatically creates your Raison workspace and provisions an API key for your Moodle instance via an ad-hoc task.

After installation, open Raison from the Moodle homepage or from any course shortcut to create your first assistant.

Pricing

You start on a free trial: one AI assistant and up to three content sources.

After the trial, Raison is a paid subscription. You can contact the sales team from inside the platform to find a plan that fits your number of assistants, content sources and learners.

Giving trainers access

By default only the admin who installed the plugin has access. To add trainers and instructional designers, open your Raison workspace from the Moodle shortcut and go to:

Organization → Members → Invite Moodle User → Validate Emails → Send Invites

Security and data access

The plugin creates a single dedicated role, Raison Manager, used only by the integration's web-service token. That token is restricted to a fixed allow-list of web-service functions, which are read-only apart from one role assignment used for the trainer invite flow. The plugin is open source and available for review, and no course or user data is ever modified.

Troubleshooting API key issues

If you see an API key error when opening Raison from a course or the homepage, it is usually a blocked ad-hoc task or a connectivity issue, for example an internal-only Moodle instance.

Open the Raison page from the Home or Course shortcut and report the issue. We review your setup and manually assign an API key if needed, typically within one business day.

Read the full troubleshooting guide for step-by-step checks.

Support and documentation

• View the Raison setup guide
• Browse the Raison documentation
• Contact Raison support

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