school-up.de

What It Is

SchoolUP is an AI tutoring tool built for schools using Moodle. It is not a general-purpose chatbot; after a school enables it, SchoolUP reads the PDFs, Office documents, scanned handouts, and web resources inside specific Moodle courses, then answers students’ questions based on those actual teaching materials. Its positioning is to “explain rather than simply give the answer,” with a particular emphasis on source citations and Socratic, step-by-step guidance for assignments.

Core Capabilities

From an AI perspective, SchoolUP uses a RAG-style approach that combines course-content extraction, OCR, full-text and vector embeddings, and model-generated answers. Responses cite specific files, and if the source material does not provide sufficient support, it will say that no suitable source could be found. This makes it better suited to in-school learning scenarios than a typical chatbot. It also supports answer buttons, collapsible hints, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, ordering questions, info/warning boxes, and KaTeX math formulas. Chat history can be saved and searched in full text.

Pricing and Trial

The current business model described in the content is a B2B license for schools, but no pricing is published. Individuals can start a 7-day free Trial using their own Moodle account, with up to 2 courses and 60 Tutor requests per day. After the trial expires, the account, Token, chats, and all data are automatically and irreversibly deleted. The trial is useful for validating the product, but the period is relatively short.

Privacy and Integration

SchoolUP integrates deeply with Moodle. It uses a school Moodle login to obtain a Web-Service-Token; passwords are not stored persistently, and the Token is encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Servers, databases, and queues are hosted in Germany. Tenant isolation between schools is implemented via Postgres Row-Level-Security. Users can export their data as JSON and delete their accounts. However, language-model requests are sent to OpenAI and may involve EU/USA data processing, which is a compliance point schools need to evaluate during procurement.

Pros, Cons, and Who It Is For

Its strengths are that it closely follows real course materials, provides traceable sources, reduces hallucinations, supports interactive exercises and math formulas, and describes its GDPR-related controls relatively clearly. Its drawbacks are that it depends on Moodle, official pricing is not transparent, Chinese-language support is not specified, and the model layer still relies on OpenAI. It is best suited to schools already using Moodle that want to provide a unified AI teaching assistant for all students. It is not a good fit for institutions without Moodle or those requiring a fully locally hosted model.

Access from China

The content does not specify network accessibility from mainland China, payment methods, or local deployment options, so china_access can only be marked as unknown. For selection in a China-based context, you may also compare ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Quizlet, Khanmigo, or a local RAG teaching assistant built on Moodle and domestic large language models.