Mwalimu is Forward's named learning companion for enrolled students: daily briefings, teach-back marking, and proactive check-ins, with published honesty about where it gets things wrong.
"Once you enrol, my colleague Mwalimu takes over your learning. I've handled your application, your essay drafts, your questions about programmes. Mwalimu picks up from there with everything I know about you, and stays with you for the daily work of studying."
LEO, the Forward Lion
A short, personal readout every morning of what today's study actually requires.
You explain the concept back to Mwalimu; it marks the explanation, not a multiple-choice guess.
Mwalimu messages first when your pattern changes, it doesn't wait to be asked.
LEO helped you apply. Once you enrol, your drafts, questions and context move to Mwalimu.
This is a canned playback, not a live model, so you can see the shape of the relationship before you enrol: a briefing, a teach-back, a proactive check-in and the LEO handoff.
Mwalimu
Your learning companion, from day one of enrolment
This is a scripted demo, not a live model. Pick a prompt below to see how Mwalimu behaves once you've enrolled.
| Feature | Mwalimu | A generic chatbot |
|---|---|---|
| What it knows about you | Your programme, Core progress, co-op calendar and teach-back history. | Nothing beyond the current chat window. |
| Who checks its marking | A human academic panel audits a published sample every term. | Usually no independent human audit. |
| When it disagrees with a human marker | Logged, published on /outcomes, escalated to your lecturer. | Rarely disclosed, rarely resolved. |
| Does it reach out to you | Yes, proactive check-ins when your pattern changes. | No, waits for you to type. |
| Where the relationship starts | Continues from LEO's admissions handoff on day one. | Starts from zero every session. |
| What happens if it's unsure | Says so and routes you to a person. | Often answers confidently anyway. |
Mwalimu's teach-back marking will be sampled monthly against a human academic panel, with the agreement rate published on /outcomes from the founding intake's first term.
Any teach-back where Mwalimu and the human panel disagree is flagged automatically. The student is told, the mark defaults to the more generous of the two, and the case is added to the published disagreement log.
Mwalimu never issues a final grade alone. It marks formative teach-backs and drafts; summative assessment is always human-reviewed.
This is a founding-intake commitment: the first published figures will come from real students, not a pilot in a lab.
Test yourself against the founding intake's expectations, or start the application LEO will carry through to Mwalimu.
