Chat & AI tools overview
Whether you are working through an idea or creating something for a lesson, start with the way you want to work. These guides explain Chat, teaching context and AI tools, and help you continue when an answer needs more attention.
Start a chat with PLAI
Ask PLAI a focused teaching question and refine the answer through follow-up messages.
Already have a task in mind? Choose a topic below.
Create with Chat
Start a conversation, add useful teaching context and refine the answer. Find separate help for choosing a PLAI version, attaching files and speaking your message.
- Start a chat with PLAIAsk PLAI a focused teaching question and refine the answer through follow-up messages.
- Give PLAI the right teaching contextHelp PLAI understand the learners, lesson and constraints behind your request.
- Choose a PLAI version and thinking modeChoose the PLAI version and, in PLAI 2.0, the thinking mode for your next request.
- Add files to a chatAttach a file to your request and tell PLAI what to do with it.
- Use voice input in ChatSpeak your request, check the text and send it when you are ready.
Keep working
Return to earlier conversations and organise them so they are easier to find next time.
Create with tools
Find a tool for your task, keep favourites close by and work through the inputs. The Teaching Assistant guide explains that option and when it may help.
- Find the right AI toolFind a guided tool that matches the resource or teaching task you have in mind.
- Save favourite AI toolsKeep the AI tools you use often together in My Favourites.
- Create a resource with an AI toolComplete a tool’s teaching brief, generate a draft and check it before saving or sharing.
- Create and use a Teaching AssistantCreate a reusable teaching brief and select it as context for relevant conversations.
Solve a problem
Start with the symptom: a missing response, an answer that needs work or a formatting problem. Each needs a different kind of check.
Need more help?
Have a question or something isn’t working as expected? Find out how to contact the team and which details will help.
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