What is a Chat Tutor?
A Chat Tutor is a monitored AI conversation you design for your students. You choose the role Kai plays and what the activity should focus on; Kai generates learning objectives, guides each student through them by voice or text, and scores how many objectives they met. Every chat is monitored from start to finish, and you're notified if a student says something related to self-harm or inappropriate content.
Creating a Chat Tutor
Click the green + button (or the Chat Tutors card on your Home page) and choose Chat Tutor, then Describe & Create. You can also create one from a PDF, PPT, video/audio file or Google Drive. The page that opens is called Create Monitored Chat.
Under Setting Role, pick how Kai should behave: Tutor on a topic, Chat with historical figure or literary character, Writing Helper, Code Helper, Teach Back, Language Learning or Custom. Click Confirm.
Choose the language for directions and conversation and the Grade Level (required).
Optionally Select file to upload a content file or rubric for the activity.
Under What should this activity focus on? (required), describe your learning objectives (or click Improve this for me to expand them).
Under How should students chat?, keep Voice & Typing or restrict students to one of them.
Optionally Align to Standards (up to 3), then click Create. Kai takes a moment to process, then opens your Chat Tutor's page.
Prefer to watch? See the quick tutorials Setting up a Chat Tutor, Creating a Chat Tutor in the Knowt Teacher Community.
Checking it before you assign
The Chat Tutor's page lists the Learning Objectives Kai generated from your description. Use Start Preview under Try out the chat! to talk to Kai exactly as your students will. The page also has Share, Edit and Assign buttons and an Analytics panel that fills in once you've assigned it.
Kai gives the Chat Tutor a title automatically. To rename it, click Edit, change the Title (you can also Add tags and edit the Starting Message, the first message a student sees), and click Save.
Note: Rename the Chat Tutor before you assign it. A session you've already assigned keeps the name it had when you assigned it.
Assigning it
Click Assign. On the Assign your Chat Activity page, choose Quick Start (a one-click start where you can see students' live progress) and click Create, or choose Custom Settings and click Next.
Start - End Time works the same as for an assessment: schedule a Start Date, set an End Date deadline (or no deadline), and choose whether to Allow Late Submissions. The next step has these chat options:
Class — pick the class, then optionally limit it to specific Sections.
Share link to LMS — click Connect to LMS to post the activity to your learning management system.
Grading — Make chat graded out of a score of 100 (on by default), Show grade after... (Student Submits by default, or Due Date) and Session Attempts (Unlimited by default, or Limited).
Additional Settings — Require Log In to complete.
Chat Tutors have no time limit and no "Show answers after" option. Click Assign. You'll see "Session created successfully" and land on the Stats page. Share the join link or QR code from its Invite to class bar (Copy Link, Show QR), or post it to your LMS with Connect to LMS. Students in the class will also find it in their class's assignment list and on the Assigned page in their sidebar.
Tip: Students don't need a subscription to use a Chat Tutor you assign — AI on teacher-created materials is free for them.
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