Ollama Tutor

Your local AI instructor. The tutor uses progressive hints and Socratic questioning — it won't give you the answer immediately.

How the tutor works

  • • Ask what you observe and what changed before asking for a solution
  • • Give progressive hints — Hint 1 first, Hint 2 after an attempt
  • • Require evidence before suggesting a fix
  • • Reveal the root cause only after reasonable investigation
  • • Score your work: Troubleshooting 25%, Technical 30%, Security 15%, Documentation 15%, Communication 15%
  • • Passing score: 80%

Instructor Chat

Tutor Offline. Ollama is not running. Install from ollama.com, then run ollama serve and ollama pull llama3.1.

Ask the tutor a question about your current lab.

The tutor uses progressive hints — it won't give you the answer immediately.

Setup Ollama

If the tutor shows offline, install Ollama from ollama.com and run:

ollama serve          # Start the Ollama server
ollama pull llama3.1  # Download a model

The tutor connects to http://localhost:11434 by default. Configure the endpoint and model in Settings.