What it handles
“Draft” means it goes ahead and you can still change the result. “Yes” means it shows you an approval card first. Changing anything students can already see also asks first. Your approval setting can make it ask more often.Prompts to try
Copy one, then change the names to yours. Attach the file where a prompt mentions one.Set up a course
Set up my course “Introduction to Psychology” from this outline.
Help me set up my first course in this school.
Quizzes
Make a 10-question multiple-choice quiz from this PDF.
Create a 10-question multiple-choice quiz on Week 3, publish it, and post an announcement to the class about it.
Which questions on the Week 3 quiz did most students get wrong?
Assignments and marking
Who hasn’t submitted Essay 1 yet?
Draft a reminder for students who haven’t submitted Essay 1.
Summarise the submissions for Essay 1 so far.
Draft a rubric for Essay 1.
Help me mark Essay 1 against its rubric. Suggest a score and feedback for each submission, and save each grade only when I approve it.
Exams
Check the PSY 101 midterm for problems before students take it.
How did students do on the PSY 101 midterm?
Talking to your class
Draft an announcement for PSY 101 about next week’s quiz.
Summarise the Week 5 discussion in PSY 101, and tell me which students haven’t joined in.
Your week
Give me a morning brief.
Which of my courses need attention this week?
What it can’t do
- Other kinds of questions. Quizzes and exams are multiple choice. It can’t write fill-in-the-blank or diagram questions.
- Slides and simulations. It doesn’t make slide decks or interactive activities.
- One student’s extra time. It can move a quiz’s late deadline for everyone, not for one student.
- Some course and quiz options. It can’t hide answers until everyone has submitted, or publish only some weeks of a course.
- Grade exports. Download them from the course’s gradebook.
- Exam reminders. Reminders are for assignments and quizzes.
- Personal calendar entries. Students see course calendars, so it won’t put a staff meeting there.
- Anything about money or your account. See what it never does.
Tips for good requests
- Name the course and the work. “Essay 1 in PSY 101” beats “the essay”. Or pick the course with All courses under the message box, so the whole chat is about it.
- Attach the source. For a quiz or a course outline, attach your notes rather than describing them.
- Say draft or publish. “Make a quiz” leaves a draft. “Make a quiz and publish it” also asks you to approve publishing.
- Ask for one big thing at a time. A very long request can stop with “This needed more steps than the agent takes in one go”. Split it in two.
- Answer its questions. If it asks which exam you mean or when it’s due, a short reply gets it going.