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In Türkiye, many K-12 students rely on expensive private tutoring and unstructured online resources to keep up with the national curriculum and prepare for high-stakes exams. This creates inequality between students whose families can pay for extra help and those who cannot.
At the same time, new AI tools appeared very quickly after 2023, but most of them are generic chatbots. They are not aligned with the Turkish curriculum, sometimes give incorrect or unsafe answers, and schools are understandably cautious about allowing them in classrooms.
We created EğitimGPT to offer a safe, curriculum-aligned AI tutor that every student can access. Our goal is to combine high-quality pedagogy with advanced AI so that personalised support is not a luxury for a few, but a basic service available to all learners in Türkiye and, in the future, in other countries.
In practice, EğitimGPT works like a 24/7 digital tutor on the web. A grade 7 student logs in, selects their grade and subject, and types a question in natural language, for example about fractions or ecosystems. The AI tutor answers with a clear, step-by-step explanation, asks a checking question, and can generate extra practice problems that match the national curriculum.
When a student uploads or types an exam question, EğitimGPT does not just give the final answer. It first guides the student through the reasoning, highlights common mistakes and only reveals the full solution at the end.
For teachers and parents, simple dashboards show which topics the student is practising, where they struggle and how their performance changes over time. Teachers can use this information to plan revision lessons or homework, while parents gain a clearer picture of their child’s learning without needing to be subject experts themselves.
We began by testing EğitimGPT with a small group of students and families and improving the product based on their feedback. Over time, more students discovered the platform through teachers’ informal recommendations, parent communities and social media, and started to use it for daily homework and exam preparation.
We share short videos, demos and sample dialogues that show how EğitimGPT supports real curriculum topics, which has started to build trust among educators. We are now in conversations with schools and local education stakeholders to organise formal pilots and research projects, so that we can better understand the impact on learning at class and school level.
Our next step is to translate and localise the system into English and Arabic and to partner with schools and organisations in the MENA region so that the model of a curriculum-aware AI tutor can spread beyond Türkiye.
The first version of EğitimGPT focused on a single grade and subject. Based on feedback, we expanded it to cover grades 4–11 and multiple core subjects, each with its own age-appropriate prompts and safeguards.
We added teacher-designed prompts that encourage reasoning instead of copy-paste behaviour, as well as filters that reduce the risk of off-topic or unsafe responses. Over time we also built simple analytics dashboards so that teachers and parents can see learning patterns, not just individual chats.
Currently we are working on English and Arabic localisation, better integrations with school learning management systems, and a separate “coach” mode that helps students plan weekly study routines, not only solve single questions.
Individual students and families can visit www.egitimgpt.com
and start using the tutor in Turkish with a simple sign-up. The platform runs in any modern web browser and does not require installation.
Schools, municipalities or organisations that want to run a pilot can contact us via the website or by email. We typically begin with a 6–8 week pilot for selected classes, provide onboarding for teachers and parents, and then share a simple impact report based on anonymised usage data and curriculum topics covered.
We are especially interested in collaborating with partners in the MENA region who would like to co-design localised versions of EğitimGPT for their curriculum and language.
