Student Support and Guidance · Meso

Rule-based chatbot for non-academic student support

A chatbot answers student questions on enrolment, examinations and graduation. The institution is explicit that the deployed assistant is rule-based rather than generative, while research on integrating large language models into academic and non-academic support runs separately at the Student Affairs Department of the Faculty of Open Education.

Record

Level
Meso
Domain
Student Support and Guidance
Institution
Anadolu University
Country
Türkiye
Delivery model
Open and distance
Context
Higher education
Maturity
Established
Scalability
Embedded
Transferability
Established
Source report
D3.1
Tags
chatbotstudent supportrule-based

Source trail

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  1. A rule-based AI chatbot is being used for non-academic (administrative) support to answer student questions about enrolment, examinations, graduation, and more.

    The sentence carries the distinction that matters for classification: the operational system is rule-based, so it cannot be counted as a deployed generative AI practice.

Evidence

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The institution distinguishes the deployed rule-based assistant from the generative systems still under investigation, so the maturity claim is bounded by the source itself.