Frequently Asked Questions  

You have questions. We have answers. 

What if I've Already Built My Custom Course in My University LMS?

Catalyst Education does not replace the excellent course development you have done, and is used by our customers (with our help) to lift-and-shift their course to our platform, then layer additional Catalyst content and software capabilities on top of their own excellent work.

Once that is done, faculty gain professional and colleague-level faculty support and are now no longer on the front lines of student technical support. We've got you, your TAs, and your students covered.

How Can You Help Us With Cheating?

There is no way to 100% protect against student cheating, especially in a time where AI is well-used by students. However, our platform is uniquely suited to help mitigate cheating:

  1. Turnitin deeply integrated within the grading workflow (plagiarism and AI detection).

  2. Algorithmically-randomized questions and question pools.

  3. Notes and student hand-written work capture.

  4. Multimodal assignments - valid responses are more difficult for AI.

  5. Token economy. When students are motivated, when the stakes of assignments are lowered, or when students have some autonomy in terms of when they complete coursework, students are much more likely to treat an activity as a lower-stakes learning activity for their own benefit less like a high-stakes formative assessment that they are more likely to cheat on.