CSCI 4720
Building with agents — modern web delivery
12-week semester·Instructor: zyan·Section A
◆ For education

Train the next generation of coders and agentic developers.

The web is being rebuilt by people who write prompts as fluently as they write code. zyan partners with colleges, bootcamps, and design schools to give the students shaping that future a real cloud IDE — with the AI tools, the compute, and the classroom controls instructors actually need.

FreeStudent seats during pilot
50%Off educator seats post-pilot
120 hrsCompute per student / mo
UnlimitedPreview environments
◆ How we partner with educators

Four ways to bring zyan into your classroom.

Pick the partnership that matches the term you have in front of you. Every model includes our full feature set — what changes is the commercial scope and how deep our two teams collaborate.

01Most popular

Course pilot

Run zyan with a single section of a single course for one term. We pre-load a starter syllabus, classroom controls, and student workspaces. You decide whether to expand at term-end.

  • Free educator seat for the instructor
  • Free student seats — up to 30 per cohort
  • Sample syllabus + grading rubric provided
02

Course adoption

Multi-section or multi-term rollouts with annual or per-semester billing. Procurement-friendly contracts, purchase orders accepted, FERPA addendum on request.

  • 50% off educator seats (Agency tier)
  • Free student seats included under instructor cohorts
  • Annual or semester billing
03

Research partnership

For programs studying AI-native development pedagogy, prompt provenance, or agent-assisted CS education. Co-publish results with our team.

  • Free institutional license for the research period
  • Anonymised activity data export with student consent
  • Co-authored case study or paper
04

Beta cohort

Your students try pre-release agentic features ahead of public launch. We learn from real classroom usage; they get to ship with bleeding-edge tools.

  • Direct line to product engineers
  • Bi-weekly feedback sessions during term
  • Branded student-of-the-term shoutouts (opt-in)
◆ Tools and compute we provide

The teaching infrastructure for AI-native development.

Every classroom workspace ships with the same tools agencies use to ship client work — plus an agentic prompt library, per-student compute, and grading-aware instrumentation. Students learn the actual stack they’ll use the day they graduate.

Quad terminal + cloud workspaces

Every student gets a real cloud IDE — no “set up your machine” week. Workspaces scale up for builds, drop to idle when class ends.

Agentic AI prompt library

A versioned library of prompts students can fork, run, and remix. Every prompt is logged on the activity feed — graders can read the full reasoning trail.

Per-student compute pool

Cohort-level compute pool with built-in caps. No surprise bills, no “the GPU credits ran out mid-term” emails.

240+ accessibility-audited components

Every component ships accessible, tested, and license-tagged. Students learn craft alongside code, instead of fighting copy-pasted snippets.

Classroom mode

Per-cohort workspaces, instructor-only admin, and SCIM roster sync with your institutional SSO. Deprovision at term end automatically.

Prompt provenance & integrity

Commit timestamps, branch history, and prompt logs make capstone authorship transparent. Designed with academic-integrity offices.

Want the deep dive? Every feature lives at /features — Educator seats include the full Agency feature set.

◆ Course schedule

12 weeks. Coding and prompting, side by side.

An example semester for a course that blends traditional web delivery with agentic workflows. Mix and match — the product is the product; the syllabus is an illustration.

  1. W01Setup

    Onboarding

    Students log in via SSO. Each gets a workspace provisioned with the course starter kit.

  2. W02Build

    First project

    Fork a starter component. First commit. First preview URL shareable with the instructor.

  3. W03Build

    Quad terminal + first prompt

    Introduce the four-shell workflow and the agentic prompt library. Every prompt logged for grading.

  4. W04Build

    First deploy

    Promote a preview to a class staging environment. Discuss rollback hygiene.

  5. W06Craft

    Accessibility audit

    Every component shipped accessibility-audited. Students audit their own builds.

  6. W08Craft

    Peer review + AI review

    File-pinned comments on each other’s PRs. Compare human review and AI-assisted review.

  7. W10Apply

    Agentic week

    Students wire an agent that ships a small feature end-to-end. Reflect on what humans still need to do.

  8. W12Ship

    Capstone ship

    Full capstone deployed to production. Instructor grades against the activity log + prompt provenance.

◆ Instructor controls

Built for the way classrooms actually grade.

Instructors get workspace-admin scopes, visibility into student work without spying on it, and grading hooks tied to the activity log.

Classroom mode

Per-cohort workspace with instructor-only admin and student scopes.

Prompt visibility

Optionally require prompt logs on every submission. Graders see the full reasoning trail.

Academic integrity

Commit timestamps, branch history, and prompt logs make copy-pasted capstones obvious.

Roster sync

SCIM roster sync with institutional SSO. Deprovision at term end automatically.

Course templates

Clone-a-syllabus: course starter with first-week assignments, graders, and grading rubric.

FERPA awareness

US institutions: data residency in US-East by default; FERPA-addendum on request.

◆ Educator pricing

Priced so the dean signs the PO.

Institutional pricing with annual or semester-based billing. Purchase orders accepted. Students in active courses are included under their instructor’s cohort.

Educator seats

$14.50/seat/mo

Agency plan, 50% off for verified .edu or bootcamp email domains.

  • Full Agency plan features
  • Classroom controls included
  • Annual billing option per term / semester

Student seats

Included

Students in active courses are covered under the instructor’s cohort. Not billed separately.

  • Personal workspace per student
  • Read-only cohort access after term end
  • Graduates keep their workspaces (free Studio tier)

Non-profit

Free

Registered 501(c)(3) non-profits running code-for-good programs run zyan at no cost for up to 15 seats.

  • Full Agency plan features
  • No expiry
  • Quarterly impact check-in with our team

Need a full feature breakdown? See /pricing — everything listed there ships with Educator seats.

◆ Partner with us

Tell us about your students.

Tell us what you’re teaching, who your students are, and how you’d like to use zyan. We’ll come back with a tailored proposal — pilot scope, discounted seats, sample syllabus, and a partnership timeline that fits your term.

  • Free seats for students in pilot cohorts
  • Discounted educator seats post-pilot
  • Beta-cohort partnerships for AI-native features
  • Co-developed syllabus + grading rubric on request
  • FERPA addendum for US institutions
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