Continuous student feedback, while you can act on it.
Human signal has never been more important. Cue is a quick, in-the-moment check-in embedded right in your LMS — so instructors and institutions hear what students feel while it's still possible to help.
The problem Cue addresses
I’m struggling but not yet failing.The sentiment institutions almost never hear — until it shows up in the withdrawal numbers.
The gap in the data
While data is plentiful, the important human signal is missed
There isn’t an easy, in-the-moment way to understand how students actually experience a course. Catching early disengagement, confusion, and course-design issues matters for retention, equity, outcomes, and mental health — and it starts with signal institutions don’t currently capture.
What you already have
- Logins
- Clicks
- Submissions
- Grades
What you don’t
- Student sentiment
- Confidence levels
- Points of confusion
- Perceived relevance
The existing landscape
The most important quadrant has been empty
Every institution has invested in understanding the student experience. End-of-term evaluations ask the right question, too late. Learning analytics run continuously, but only capture behavior. What’s been missing is what matters most: what students feel, while you can still act on it.
A cue is a signal that prompts a response. Cue is built to catch it — continuously, directly, while it’s still actionable.
Introducing Cue
Continuous, in-the-moment feedback about a student’s experience — while you can still act on it
A cue is a signal that prompts a response. Cue is built to catch them.
Built to disappear into your LMS
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How it works
Human signal, surfaced at every level
One quick reaction from a student becomes something instructors can act on and institutions can understand — without adding another tool to anyone’s day.
01
Capture
Students
- A quick microreaction — one tap after any activity, at the item, course, or personal level
- Optional one-line comment
- Students are notified when their feedback drives change
- Seamlessly embedded in the LMS
02
Act
Instructors
- Act while the feedback is still relevant
- Not a report: concrete recommendations from hotspots and anomalies
- Insights flow to instructors to act on — never to be judged by
- Seamlessly embedded in the LMS
03
Understand
Institution
- Rolled up across programs and courses to understand sentiment
- Target support where it’s needed and track sentiment over time
- Aggregate patterns only, with strict separation from personnel processes
Human signal in the age of AI
As AI writes, tutors, and grades, authentic human experience becomes the scarcest signal in education
As AI writes content, tutors students, grades work, and acts across the institutional stack, more of what an institution “sees” becomes generated, modeled, or inferred.
Increasingly synthetic
What AI now generates
- Course content & explanations
- Tutoring & student-facing copilots
- Grading, feedback & summaries
- Engagement scores & predictions
Irreplaceable
What only the student can give
- How it actually felt
- What actually landed — and what didn’t
- Where they actually got lost
- Whether it was worth their time
Cue captures the human signal — the ground truth AI can’t synthesize.
Where Cue could go next
Directional, informed by our design partners
Our focus stays on continuous student feedback — measuring experience and enabling in-the-moment action. From there, three directions are open.
Deepen the signal
Capture more, richer human signal
- End-of-term evaluations unified in Cue — one home for continuous and summative experience
- Mobile check-ins, seamlessly integrated with the institution’s app
- Metacognition & self-reflection prompts for richer signal
Connect the stack
Integrate with institutional data & tools
- Seamless SIS integration for additional context
- The most comprehensive picture of student progress — experience, grades, and analytics together
Expand the reach
New use cases and markets
- Cross-institution benchmarking — student experience as a competitive differentiator
- Content-effectiveness insight for publishers and content partners
- Corporate: continuous feedback for employees
Built by people who’ve done this before
Earning faculty trust takes more than good software
What makes a tool like this hard is earning faculty trust, integrating deep and seamlessly into the LMS, and removing institutional friction. That’s what this team has built before.
- Founding team of Blackboard Ally (opens in a new tab), the leading accessibility platform in higher education
- Former EdTech executives
- Real experience working as university staff and faculty
- Contributing members at higher-education standards and special-interest organizations such as 1EdTech
3,000+
institutions reached by tools this team has built
30M+
students per month on those tools
Get in touch
Let’s find out what your students are trying to tell you
Tell us a bit about your institution and we’ll follow up to set up a walkthrough or talk through the Design Partner Program.
General inquiries, demo requests, and the Design Partner Program