Can't I just put my worksheets into ChatGPT?
Yes. For you, tonight, with one PDF, do it. You'll learn something. What you can't do with a chatbot is run 120 students on their own logins, assign work by class with due dates, mark and track every answer by topic, and send a report to each parent with your logo on it, on your own web address.
Answers anything, from anywhere, for one person at a time. Brilliant for the owner exploring a document. Not a system a centre can run its week on, and not something a parent will ever see.
Only your material. Every student on their own login, every class assigned, every answer marked and tracked, every parent reported to, under your brand, in your own isolated space.
| ChatGPT and NotebookLM | StudyPro | |
|---|---|---|
| Where answers come from | The open internet and its training data | Your uploaded material only, citing the page |
| Can it make things up | Yes, fluently | Anything without a source page is rejected before you see it |
| Who approves what students see | Nobody | You, before publish |
| Students | One chat window per person, no accounts for your centre | Every student on their own login, in their class |
| Assignments and due dates | No | By class, in three clicks |
| Marking and tracking by topic | No | Every answer, every topic, every student |
| Parent report | No | Every fortnight, your logo, your address |
| Your material's privacy | Depends on the plan and the settings | Isolated per centre, no reuse, no training, contractually |
| Will do the homework for the student | Yes, if asked | Hints first, worked example second, and the tutor sees how many were used |
- You want to explore your own document, alone, tonight
- You're drafting new material and want a sounding board
- You have three students and a WhatsApp group
- You have classes, tutors and a roster
- Parents pay every term and can't see progress
- Your material is your edge and must not leak
- You want to know on Monday what the class got wrong
A chatbot is a tool for the owner. A platform is a system for the centre. Some owners will try the chatbot first and lose a term finding out how to get the results back from 120 kids. The honest answer is that you can't, and that's the whole difference.
What owners ask about this one.
Is your platform just ChatGPT with my files?
What about NotebookLM?
See it with your own worksheets.
Twenty minutes on a screen share. Send a worksheet beforehand and you'll be looking at your own material, not a demo.