A Digital Colleague: How an AI Assistant Entered Teachers’ Offices in Tatarstan
An AI-powered virtual assistant called Gosprompt is helping teachers draft student profiles, design lesson plans, and prepare materials for parent meetings, turning routine paperwork into a largely automated process.
Teachers Are No Longer Working Alone
Schools in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan have gained a new participant in the educational process – a virtual AI assistant known as Gosprompt. It does not teach classes or assign grades, but it is gradually taking over the tasks that have long consumed teachers’ time and energy: the formal, mandatory paperwork that supports everyday teaching.
The launch of the system was announced by Ilsur Khadiullin, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. According to him, the tool was designed first and foremost as an assistant that reduces administrative and methodological overload. The goal is not to replace teachers, but to shift their time toward working with students rather than documents.
What Gosprompt Actually Does
The assistant’s functionality targets the most time-consuming school processes. The system generates narrative student evaluations tailored to individual learners, helps assemble scenarios for parent–teacher meetings, suggests lesson structures, and automatically creates test assignments. A separate module focuses on calendars for extracurricular and character-building activities, which traditionally require a large volume of standardized language.
In addition, the AI works with schedules and can analyze lesson audio recordings, extracting key parameters of classroom activity. This reduces repetitive manual work and eliminates the need to start from scratch each time.
At the same time, the region is developing a personalized recommendation system for students. The future platform is expected to account for individual student characteristics and suggest optimal learning pathways, extending automation from administration into the core of the learning process itself.
AI as a High-Resolution Lens
Tatarstan has been steadily expanding its digital education infrastructure for years. Schools gradually adopted automated assessment tools, platforms for analyzing student engagement, and electronic services to support learning workflows. These solutions laid the groundwork for deploying more advanced AI models.
Notably, the Gosprompt assistant is also being used to improve public administration efficiency. It analyzes large datasets across the economy, social policy, and environmental management, models development scenarios, and helps civil servants make data-driven decisions. By February 2025, the service was already in use across 25 government agencies in Tatarstan. The most popular function was work with text and documents, accounting for 24 percent of usage, followed by data analysis, forecasting, and training and development supported by the Gosprompt platform.
“AI in public administration can be compared to a powerful magnifying glass that reveals details and patterns previously hidden from the human eye. But like any tool, it requires wise and responsible use. The challenge is to unlock AI’s potential without losing our humanity and traditional values,” said Ayrat Khairullin, Minister of Digital Development, Public Administration, Information Technologies, and Communications of Tatarstan, describing the role of these technologies.
Teachers had previously been granted access to Gosprompt as a set of models for generating tests and methodological materials, so the new format represents an expansion of that earlier experience. It also builds on existing infrastructure projects such as digital school services and record-keeping systems, now enhanced with an AI layer.
From Lesson Plans to Parent Meetings
AI has clearly moved from an abstract concept into everyday school practice. At the same time, challenges remain: teachers need training, questions around student data handling must be resolved, and gaps in digital readiness between regions persist.
The project is primarily intended for domestic use, but the underlying model – an AI assistant built around ready-to-use educational templates – could potentially scale beyond the region. Further functional expansion and integration with other education platforms are also possible. Schools gain a practical, embedded tool designed for daily routines, and it is precisely such changes that tend to have the most visible impact.
