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Nyansa: AI-Assisted Tutoring That Keeps Teachers in Control

A Django-based school platform where Claude accelerates feedback and lesson prep, but every grade is finalized by a human teacher.

01 / Overview

Nyansa (Twi for "wisdom") is an AI-powered tutoring and school management platform. Research from a founder's M.Ed studies was the inspiration to build it into a real product for actual classrooms and teachers.

02 / The challenge

AI tools for education tend to go one of two ways: they either replace the teacher's judgment entirely, or they're too generic to fit how a real school actually grades, schedules, and communicates with parents. The goal was a system where AI removes busywork and speeds up feedback, without ever taking a grading decision out of a teacher's hands.

03 / What we built

  1. 01AI-assisted quiz generation, short-answer feedback, study-document summaries, and lesson-note drafting via Claude — all advisory, with a teacher reviewing and finalizing every grade before a student sees it
  2. 02A tenant-safe gradebook with configurable grading schemes, weighted categories (quizzes 20%, assignments 20%, exams 60%), and an immutable correction and review history
  3. 03Mobile-first attendance tracking with derived summaries and automatic alerts on corrections and absences
  4. 04A guardian portal with email and Ghana-focused SMS notifications, built on an idempotent outbox so notices are never silently dropped
  5. 05School finance built around Paystack-hosted Mobile Money checkout, reconciled server-side via signed webhooks rather than trusting the browser to confirm its own payment
  6. 06Explainable analytics: teacher- and school-level trends with configurable early-warning signals for at-risk students

04 / Where it stands

In active development and deployed as a live demo, evolving toward a multi-tenant school management system per its own public roadmap.