What AI technology is powering Acai?
Acai uses advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) hosted on secure infrastructure (for example, Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI Service) to generate feedback, suggestions, and insights tailored to educational needs.
How is Acai different from other AI tools?
The difference comes down to context and pedagogy. Acai is embedded inside FeedbackFruits tools and your LMS, so it can take into account activity settings such as rubrics, criteria, and prompts. This allows it to provide relevant, pedagogically grounded feedback that is integrated into real learning activities, rather than generic responses.
How is FeedbackFruits using AI technology in general?
FeedbackFruits develops Acai according to explicit principles around pedagogy-first design, transparency, and data protection. For more detail, see our public information on Acai and our AI principles on the FeedbackFruits website or in your institution’s documentation.
Are the responses and feedback that Acai provides accurate?
Not always. Like any AI system, Acai can occasionally produce responses that are incomplete, inaccurate, or reflect bias. Acai is designed as a support tool: teachers and students should always read suggestions critically and make their own judgements before using them.
Will you use my interactions with Acai to “train” future versions of this feature?
No. FeedbackFruits does not use your content to train or retrain the underlying Azure OpenAI models. Student and instructor inputs are only processed to generate the requested suggestions and are not used to improve those external models.
FeedbackFruits respects user privacy and data security. We use AI models in a “plug-and-play” manner with predefined instructions (prompts), rather than fine-tuning or training them on your data.
Is there an additional cost to use Acai?
Acai capabilities are delivered through existing FeedbackFruits tools, such as:
Automated Feedback
Group Member Evaluation
Peer Review
Assignment Review
Interactive Study Materials (for certain Acai features)
Whether there is an additional cost depends on your institution’s contract and which bundles or packages you have licensed. Some Acai features are part of specific bundles (for example, workload reduction / AI bundles) and may require enablement by your FeedbackFruits contact.
To understand how Acai is licensed in your environment, please check with your institution’s FeedbackFruits representative or admin.