Building belonging in digital student communities with AI on AWS

Yellowdig, an EdTech platform powered by AWS, has developed an innovative solution to foster student belonging and engagement using generative AI.

• Provides a digital community-building platform that prioritizes meaningful student interactions
• Uses a gamified point system to encourage organic conversations among students
• Launched the Community Recap feature using AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kinesis
• Generates real-time summaries of student conversations in under four seconds
• Offers sentiment analysis to help instructors understand community dynamics

By using AI to streamline community monitoring, Yellowdig has seen improvements in student pass rates (9%) and persistence rates (7%), addressing the critical need for student connection in digital learning environments.