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Student disengagement doesn’t begin with missing assignments or quiet classrooms. It starts earlier—when students stop believing they can succeed. Over time, that loss of confidence shows up in lower performance, widening gaps, and students who slowly pull away from learning.
Teachers see this every day. They know feedback is one of the most powerful tools for rebuilding confidence and momentum, yet time is the constant constraint. With educators working an average of 49 hours a week—and nearly 10 of those spent grading—individualized, timely feedback is often the first thing to slip, especially for the 44% of students performing below grade level.
That’s where AI is changing what’s possible. When feedback arrives quickly, is personalized, and gives students clear opportunities to revise and improve, learning feels attainable again. Students re-engage. Effort increases. Confidence begins to return.
This guide explores how AI can strengthen student engagement by making meaningful feedback more consistent and actionable—and how Panorama Solara with Class Companion helps schools bring these experiences to life in classrooms across the country.
AI Can Help Improve Student Engagement
Students are more motivated when the work feels meaningful. When they stay engaged in their coursework, they’re more likely to succeed academically and show up to class ready to learn. The relationship is cyclical: engagement fuels stronger outcomes, and stronger outcomes deepen engagement.
The challenge is scale. Even the most dedicated teachers can only provide so much personalized feedback in a day. As class sizes grow and assignments stack up, feedback often arrives long after the window to spark motivation has closed.
Purpose-built AI tools like Solara with Class Companion change what’s possible. By generating instant feedback, tailoring supports based on each student’s needs, and giving teachers clear, real-time insights, AI tools like Class Companion help reestablish the connection between effort and growth.
AI for Student Engagement in K-12 Classrooms
AI tools built specifically for education are reshaping how students learn and how teachers support them. A tool like Class Companion can deliver timely feedback, recommend supports based on a fuller picture of student needs, and surface real-time insights that help teachers adjust instruction with confidence. When students receive comments moments after submitting their work, they’re more likely to remember what they were trying to express—and more motivated to apply that feedback to future assignments.
Every student needs something different to move forward. Panorama Solara with Class Companion brings together academic, behavior, attendance, and intervention data to personalize those supports. Some students may benefit from sentence starters or scaffolds to get their ideas down. Others may need prompts that push their thinking more deeply. Students can access the help they need—at their level and at the right moment.
15 AI Literacy Strategies for Educators
How Panorama Solara with Class Companion Can Help Boost Student Engagement
Panorama Solara with Class Companion can help schools make personalized learning scalable, keep students motivated with timely feedback, and give teachers clearer insights into how students are progressing.
Students Receive Instant, Personalized Feedback
Students naturally disengage when too much time passes between submitting work and receiving comments. Fast, actionable feedback keeps the assignment fresh and helps students understand what they did well and where to improve. When students can revise right away, they stay connected to the learning process instead of moving on with unanswered questions or lingering gaps.
AI Suggests Supports Tailored to Student Needs
Every student benefits from different types of scaffolds. Class Companion can help teachers identify who might need sentence starters, vocabulary support, or reading-level adjustments and who is ready for deeper challenges. These recommendations save teachers time while ensuring students get the right level of support—without lowering expectations.
Students Can Revise and Resubmit
When students have the chance to revisit their work, they learn that a first draft doesn’t define their ability. Reading feedback, making changes, and resubmitting helps normalize revision as part of learning. It keeps students engaged because their effort leads to immediate improvement rather than a final grade they can’t influence.
Building Capacity to Use AI in the Classroom
AI can help solve a real capacity challenge in schools. When students receive immediate, rubric-aligned feedback, they stay invested in improving their work. And when teachers reclaim hours previously spent grading, they can use that time for the conversations, coaching, and interventions that matter most.
To make the most of these tools, teachers also need practical strategies—how to introduce AI in their classrooms, set clear expectations with students, and protect academic integrity.
Download 15 AI Literacy Strategies for Educators to help teachers build confidence with AI, establish classroom norms, and prepare students for a future where AI literacy is as essential as reading and writing.
