Cogniti AI Agent Platform

Cogniti is a platform for building AI learning activities, developed by a team at the University of Sydney in Australia with development partners from other institutions. The website does not state a founding year. It lets teachers create their own AI agents without coding, so that AI support follows their pedagogy and course resources.

Teachers steer agents with natural-language instructions and ground them in their own web pages and files, then embed them in the learning management system. Educators get insights into how students use the agents. On 15 June 2026 the university announced the platform on Microsoft Marketplace, with Leiden University and several New Zealand institutions among adopters.

• Steerable agents: teachers shape responses using natural language.
• Resourced agents: agents use web pages, files and other course materials.
• Mini learning apps: teacher-built AI activities beyond chat.
• Student sandboxes: spaces for students to experiment with AI.
• LMS embedding: agents appear inside the learning management system.
• Usage insights: educators see how students interact with agents.

A Vietnamese university could let lecturers build subject-specific tutor agents for large general courses. A faculty of nursing or health could build scenario simulation agents for practice. Language departments could create feedback agents for student writing.

Teachers control how agents behave without coding. Agents draw on the teacher's own resources. Insights show how students use agents. The University of Sydney reports Leiden University deployed it across four faculties reaching 2,000 students.

Universities want educator-controlled AI rather than generic chatbots, and procurement is moving to cloud marketplaces. Vietnamese and Southeast Asian universities building AI teaching assistants face the same governance and workload questions.

Developed at the University of Sydney. Awards listed on the site include iTnews Overall Technology Project of the Year (2026), AFR AI Awards (2025) and UNESCO selection as an emerging AI-in-education practice (2024). Founding year is not stated.