TeachToLevel
For Higher Education

Keep more students enrolled through the courses that push them out

TeachToLevel gives instructors live mastery data on every student, so the ones falling behind get caught and coached back to level before they fail the course and leave your institution.

An instructor reviewing student mastery data
The problem

Attrition rarely starts at the point a student withdraws

It starts weeks earlier, in a gateway course, when a student misses a foundational concept and never recovers. They fall behind quietly, they stop participating, and by the time anyone sees a failing grade, the decision to leave has already been made.

Your tutoring center is ready to help. The student has to walk in and ask for it first, and the students most at risk are the least likely to do that.

What changes

Help that finds the student, instead of waiting to be asked

TeachToLevel sits on top of a course an instructor is already teaching. Struggling students get help without having to raise their hand, and faculty get an early warning system that does the intervention work for them.

1

Upload the course

The instructor uploads their outline, objectives, and mastery targets, then invites students in.

2

Baseline every student

A baseline assessment shows where each student actually stands against those objectives, and the instructor sees that same picture.

3

Coach, not answer

Students work through the material with an AI learning coach that asks questions instead of handing over answers.

4

Watch mastery build

When a student gets stuck, the coaching slows down, rebuilds the fundamentals underneath the gap, and brings them back up to level. The instructor watches mastery build objective by objective, in real time.

What your institution gets

Retention work that starts before the withdrawal form

Early warning tied to specific objectives

See which students are behind on which concepts in week three, not after the midterm.

Intervention that runs on its own

The learning coach fills the gaps without adding office hours to an instructor’s load.

Mastery data across a section or a department

Understand where a course design consistently loses students.

Target the courses that drive attrition

Gateway STEM and quantitative courses are the highest-leverage place to start.

The math

A department license costs a fraction of a single retained student

A four-year institution loses roughly $21,000 in tuition and fees for every student who leaves, and community colleges lose roughly $10,000. Across higher education, attrition costs institutions more than $16 billion a year. Hold on to one or two additional students in one course section, and the investment has already returned several times over.

Per-student figures: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Sector-wide figure: Educational Policy Institute.

Common questions

What administrators ask us

We already offer free tutoring. How is this different?

Tutoring responds after a student identifies a problem and asks for help. TeachToLevel surfaces the problem for the instructor while the student is still enrolled and still recoverable, and it produces mastery data your tutoring center cannot generate.

Does this add work for faculty?

Setup takes an outline, a set of objectives, and mastery targets. After that, the coaching runs on its own and the instructor reviews a dashboard.

Will the AI do the work for students?

No. The learning coach uses a Socratic approach and does not hand over answers. Students reach mastery by working through the reasoning.

What is Socratic teaching?

Socratic teaching is a method where the teacher guides a student to the answer by asking questions instead of giving explanations. When a student is stuck, the learning coach asks a smaller question the student can answer, then builds from there one step at a time. The student does the thinking, and each correct step becomes the foundation for the next question. Understanding built this way lasts, because the student reached the answer through their own reasoning instead of copying someone else’s.

Can we start small?

A common starting point is a single high-attrition course or one department. Measure the result, then expand from there.

What is a few points of retention worth at your institution?

Let's talk through the courses where students are leaving and what it would take to keep them.

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