Connectors
Ingest knowledge from connected applications
Availability depends on your school's enabled tools, provider setup, and account permissions. These settings are managed in the web workspace. A class policy may restrict a feature described here. Some options require a separately licensed feature. The presence of a guide does not unlock that feature.
What are Connectors?#
Nexus uses Connectors to build an understanding of your documents, team, and higher level concepts so that answers are grounded and specific to your school's knowledge.
Connectors:
Keep all updates synced between external systems and Nexus.
Pull in metadata and additional signals to ensure answer relevance.
Respect all user permissions (Enterprise Edition only).
Common Connector Questions#
What are the supported connectors?#
Click this card to see the full list of supported connectors.
You can also push documents directly into Nexus via API or via File Upload.
How do I ensure my data is secure?#
All processing and storage of documents and metadata happen within Nexus.
There are options to use LLMs or third party providers during the indexing flow but by default everything is processing entirely locally.
Click this card to see more about security.
Why are connectors/indexing important?#
In the same way LLMs are pre-trained on massive amounts of internet data, Nexus builds an understanding of all of the documents, concepts, and people within your school.
This allows Nexus to provide more accurate answer to questions that relate to internal knowledge compared to using the applications' provided search APIs at query time.
Click this card to learn more about Internal Search in Nexus.