Launching Fall 2026, Cosmos is Penda Learning’s AI Instructional Assistant, designed to support students, empower teachers, and give administrators greater confidence in the learning experience. Built to work within the flow of instruction, Cosmos helps make science learning more accessible, responsive, and effective.
Cosmos gives students timely, guided support as they move through learning activities, helping them stay engaged and build understanding without disrupting momentum. Instead of simply giving answers, Cosmos is designed to encourage thinking, reinforce key concepts, and support students as they work toward mastery. Students remain safe, focused and build confidence.
Cosmos helps teachers extend their reach by supporting students during independent work and key learning moments, anytime and anywhere. With AI assistance built into the learning experience, teachers can spend less time managing routine questions and more time delivering targeted instruction, intervention, and meaningful student support.
Beyond real-time assistance, Cosmos gives teachers valuable insight into how students are learning. Teachers can identify the concepts students struggle with most, see where help is being requested, and uncover patterns across individual learners, small groups, or the entire class. With this visibility, teachers are better equipped to address misunderstandings early, personalize support, and make instructional decisions with greater confidence.
For school and district leaders, Cosmos represents a thoughtful approach to AI in education, one that is designed to support instruction while aligning with the need for consistency, visibility, and trust. Built with student privacy and safety in mind, Cosmos adheres to Penda’s AI and data privacy policies and commitments.
From faster evaluation of written responses to assignment workflows that coordinate with in-class activities, Penda’s automation tools help educators save time without sacrificing instructional quality.
Penda’s AI Grading capabilities help teachers evaluate short answer and essay responses more efficiently by automatically processing student-written responses and providing feedback within 24 hours. This reduces the time spent on manual review while helping teachers deliver faster, more consistent feedback to students.
Teachers remain fully in control throughout the grading process. Teachers can review AI-generated scores, see the rubric used, accept the suggested score and feedback, or decline it and manually update grades. At every step, teachers retain final authority and can override AI-generated grading at any time. Administrators have full control to enable or disable AI grading at the district level
With automated assignments supported by Penda’s Pacing Assistance Service, teachers can keep instruction aligned and organized with less day-to-day management. Penda hand-aligns the assignments based on the provided academic calendar and/or scope and sequence documents. This helps ensure students receive the standards-based assignments at the right time, while simplifying implementation for busy classrooms and schools. The Pacing Assistance Service ensures high quality learning continues even if there is a substitute, vacancy, or out of field teacher.
