Task Coach: guided help for assignments
Task Coach is an AI study companion that breaks an assignment into guided phases and coaches you through it with questions instead of answers. It reads any briefs or rubrics you attach (including photos), turns an accepted plan into scheduled tasks, and lets you re-plan or share your work as you go.
What Task Coach is
Task Coach is a Socratic AI companion that helps you work through an assignment yourself. It breaks the assignment into guided phases and coaches you phase by phase using questions and hints. Its one unbreakable rule is that it will never write the assignment for you: no essay text, no answers, no solved problems, no content you could paste in. If you ask it to "just write it," it redirects you to the next step you can take yourself.
It can read any briefs, rubrics, or source material you attach, including photos, and use them as factual context so it can point you to the right requirement or hold you to the marking criteria.
Where to find it
Go to Study → Task Coach in the sidebar, then open the project you want or start a new one.
Getting started
- Open Study → Task Coach and choose New project.
- Upload your brief or rubric (a clear PDF, Word document, text file, or photo), or type the details in yourself. You can attach more than one document at once (for example an assignment sheet plus a marking rubric plus readings) and Task Coach reads them together as one assignment to draft the title, summary, type, and due date.
- Select Create & plan. Task Coach generates a breakdown of the assignment into work phases, each with a title, description, and an estimated time.
Turning the plan into tasks
When Task Coach proposes a plan, it appears as a confirm card that you review before anything is created. Accepting the plan converts the phases into Tasks and automatically schedules study blocks for them into your weekly availability.
If you have not set any weekly availability, the scheduler has nowhere to place blocks and will create none. If that happens, set your weekly availability first, then the phases can be scheduled.
Working through the phases
Work each phase with the coach. Ask it questions, share your thinking, and let it guide you with a ladder of hints that stops short of giving you the answer. As you mark a phase complete, its linked Task and progress update, and the next phase becomes your current focus.
You can also write directly in the project's working document, leave and resolve comments alongside the draft, and share the project with someone by link, by user, or by email invite, giving them view-only or contribute access.
Adding material and re-planning later
You can attach more documents to a project at any time as extra context. If you add material after the plan exists, Task Coach can review it against your current phases and tell you what, if anything, is missing (for example an annotated bibliography, a set number of sources, or a required referencing style). It advises rather than silently rewriting your plan, so you decide what to change.
When you do want to change course, you can re-plan: preview the proposed changes, apply them, or revert the last re-plan with a single-level undo. Phases you have already worked stay put; the re-plan adjusts the work still ahead.
If Task Coach says it cannot see your document
The file may be unrelated to the assignment, or it may be a cloud-only file that did not fully upload. Upload the actual brief or rubric for this assignment as a clear PDF, Word document, text file, or photo, and Task Coach will read it.