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Update the TritonAI Tutor's Knowledge Base

The knowledge base is the set of materials your tutor can retrieve from when it answers a student.

What the Tutor Can Index

From Canvas

  • Pages
  • Assignments
  • Announcements
  • Files
  • Modules
  • Quizzes
  • Discussions
  • Syllabus

Outside Canvas

  • Google Drive folders
  • Websites

Updating which Canvas materials the tutor ingests is done exclusively from the tutor configuration page. If you want the tutor to use Google Drive folders and websites, you'll need to add those first in the Knowledge tab.

For how hidden files, lock dates, and quiz content are handled, see the Tutor FAQ.

Add or Remove Canvas Material

Adding or removing Canvas material from your tutor's knowledge base is done in the tutor configuration tab.

  1. Within your Canvas course, click TritonAI Tutor in the course navigation on the left side of the screen.
  2. Click the Tutors tab if you don't land on it by default.
  3. Click the pencil icon next to the tutor you want to edit.
  4. Scroll down to the “Knowledge” section.
  5. Select the Canvas tab on the left side of the section if it's not already selected.
  6. Check any boxes for material you want to be indexed. Un-check any boxes you do not want indexed.

    You can click the chevron (>) next to any folder to go into subfolders and choose individual materials.

  7. When you've made your selections, scroll to the top of the page and click Save.