Bar-Ilan University Pilots AI Moodle Agent for 2,400 Students, Expanding to 100 More Courses
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Updated · Microsoft · Oct 15
Bar-Ilan University Pilots AI Moodle Agent for 2,400 Students, Expanding to 100 More Courses
3 articles · Updated · Microsoft · Oct 15
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Bar-Ilan University has piloted an AI agent on Moodle across 71 courses for about 2,400 students, letting them search lectures, summarize materials and generate quizzes in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
The tool was introduced to help students catch up on missed classes and study more actively, drawing only on staff-uploaded course content such as recorded lectures, transcripts, slides and articles.
Yarden Shay said the agent cut her post-lecture study time to about 3 hours a day from 5 to 6 hours by organizing notes and testing her with multiple-choice and open-ended questions.
Lecturer Eliyahu Biton said he now gets fewer routine questions, while his roughly 50 students posted final scores about 3 percentage points higher than previous years after using the bot for exam practice.
The AI agent runs in the university's secure Microsoft Azure environment and is set to expand to another 100 courses in the first semester of the 2026/27 academic year.