Education and Study · Newsletter · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
A professor tests whether an agent can take the exam for the student
Michael Lomuscio created an Algebra course in Canvas and watched Comet build and then answer its own quiz.
- Profession
- Teacher
- Tools
- Perplexity Comet
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
He created a basic course in Canvas and asked Comet to build a multiple-choice quiz. Then he logged in as a student and asked the agent to answer it.
How it went
The agent built and solved the quiz, which led the author to discuss how to assess students when AI can do the task on its own.
Good to know
For teachers: prefer in-person, oral or process-visible assessments.
The prompt
I teach [subject] to [grade]. Propose 3 formats for assessing [content] that an AI agent can't do alone on the student's behalf, with a simple rubric for each.
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