Set up AI help for your class

Open your class#

Sign in to the school workspace with your approved account. Open School management and select an assigned class. A school operator manages teacher assignments and student membership.

Connect class materials from Canvas or Google Classroom#

Open Class materials. If your school has enabled a teaching connection, connect the account you use to teach in Canvas or Google Classroom. Review the courses and their linked Nexus classes before using the materials with students.

Keep your published course material in your school's platform. A successful import makes supported material available to Internal Search in conversations for the linked Nexus class, so you do not need to upload the same supported document to Nexus again. Check the import status and any skipped attachments. A failed or incomplete import is not a complete class library.

Nexus does not enroll students automatically when it finds a course. A school operator still manages class membership. Material from one class is not made available to unrelated class or personal conversations. If a connection says school setup is needed, ask your school operator to enable it.

The administrator Canvas connector is a separate setup for indexing content with administrator-managed access. Its instructions do not replace the teaching connection above.

Choose the help level#

Use hints when students should supply the next step. Use guided help when they need a more detailed explanation. A fuller explanation can be appropriate for a worked example or critique, depending on the assignment.

Add clear class instructions. Say what students should practice, what information the model may use, and what a useful response should ask the student to do. Save the policy before asking students to begin.

Read class guardrails for the difference between a saved policy, model instructions, and an access restriction.

Choose models for the class#

Select from the school's approved catalog. You can narrow those choices for a class. Consider the task and the listed provider prices. Comparison is not a per-class switch: it needs the administrator multi-model setting and the student's own model-comparison preference. When both are on, one question can create up to three model responses, each with its own provider usage.

Per class you control the help level, the class instructions, the permitted models, and whether the class may use voice and image generation. Image generation also needs the class in Full answer with critique mode.

Review the work#

Open the class conversation list and select a conversation to see its prompts and responses. Use the conversation to understand what the student tried and where they need help. Follow your school's process for discussing an issue with a student.

This view is limited to your assigned classes. See conversation review.

Try the setup before a lesson#

Use an approved test account in the class. Ask an ordinary question, a request for the final answer, and a question outside the assignment. Check that the allowed models and responses match the policy you saved. Revise unclear instructions before using them with students.