Intelligent Student Support - Without Data Risk

A Free, Private Tool to Enhance Understanding, Connections, and Interventions

The Challenge: Addressing Student Needs

In Middle School especially, consistently tracking daily incidents and preparing for impactful conversations is as important as it is challenging.

Traditional record-keeping is so impractical and time-consuming, the adult(s) in charge often need to proceed with fragmented insights, potentially missing crucial details and lacking a cohesive understanding of both individual situations and general patterns.

AI technologies can help, of course. But they’re not well-suited, by default, for such sensitive use cases.

Fortunately, these technologies now enable educators to create their own solutions - with full control over cost, privacy, and functionalities

The Innovation: Intelligent Support, Full Privacy

So, to solve this problem, I used powerful coding assistants (Z.AI GLM-4.7 and Claude Code) to generate an application combining intelligent support and complete privacy.

1. Centralized Student Support Tickets

Users can create “tickets” and describe individual incidents or observations related to a student’s academic performance, behavior, or well-being.

2. AI-Powered Brief / Debrief

A built-in AI assistant helps analyze relevant tickets to prepare for meaningful conversations. Because these generally involve PII, the assistant runs on a local model fully downloaded on the user’s computer through LM Studio.

In this context, “intelligent support” not only means connecting behaviors and mapping relationships across multiple “tickets” and students, but also analyzing patterns and generating reports for responses beyond individual interventions.

3. Voice Notes and Summaries

During the conversation itself, the user can even transcribe and summarize the audio with the GDPR-compliant AssemblyAI—adding to the body of knowledge automatically saved on the user’s computer (and accessible to the AI assistant) for ongoing support.

The Benefit: Enhanced Human Connections

This application does not only fully protect student information. It is also 100% free to run.

Most importantly, however, it is yet another illustration of the way artificial intelligence can help enhance human understanding and connections:

• Enhanced Efficiency: Automating laborious tasks, it frees up educators’ time for direct, meaningful student interactions.

• Deeper Insights: Providing a holistic understanding of student challenges, it helps devise more robust interventions — and track their effectiveness.

• Proactive Support: Identifying subtle patterns over time, it enables educators to intervene early and adapt as needed.

Next Steps: Prompt and Context Engineering

As other examples, this app is functional, but raw. Next steps include:

• Engineering context, e.g., by giving the assistant access to a school’s policies, systems of support, and approach to discipline

• Engineering prompts, e.g., to follow a school’s restorative approach

To test and customize it for yourself, head to my GitHub repository, where you will find the full code and detailed instructions.