HiTA User Guide
  • Welcome to the HiTA Documentation Page!
  • Getting Started
  • Your HiTA Account
    • Account Authentication
      • New Account Sign-up
      • Logging In
      • Logging In via Social Sign-In
      • Reset Password
    • Your HiTA Profile
    • Logging Out
  • Using the Virtual Assistant
    • Home Page
    • Explore Assistants
    • HiTA Assistant Layout Overview
    • Modules and Lessons
    • Chatting with the Assistant
      • Screen Sharing
      • Chatting About a Resource
        • Obtaining Homework Help
      • Chat Limit
      • Disabled Chat Periods
    • Activities
    • Conversation Viewing
  • HiTA in Canvas
    • Overview
    • Initial Account Link
    • Embedded Navigation Bar
    • Chatting with the Assistant on Canvas
  • Policies
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    • Privacy Policy
    • FERPA Policy
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  • File Attaching
  • The Chat Tools
  • Screen Sharing
  • Getting Help With a Specific Resource
  • Viewing Older Conversations

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  1. Using the Virtual Assistant

Chatting with the Assistant

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You can interact with the virtual assistant via chat. To start a new chat, press the New Chat button in the main navbar of a course. You can ask your own question here. The page also displays sample questions that give you an idea of the things you can ask the assistant.

The virtual assistant will refer to existing lessons and its knowledge base (both of which are curated by the course instructors) to answer your question. When answering your question, it can cite the course resources that it used. Clicking on the source link will open it for you to view along with your answer. It can also jump directly to the relevant portion of the lesson so you do not have to find what part it is referring to.

File Attaching

Click on the paper clip icon to attach files to your chat. You can ask the assistant about the files you upload (includes images and PDFs). You can directly copy-paste screenshots into the chat input box.

Note that there is a size limit and count limit to the files that you attach.

The Chat Tools

The chat tools are located in the chat input box.

Screen Sharing

You can share your screen and images with the assistant to ask about them. More details can be found in the Screen Sharing page.

Getting Help With a Specific Resource

Chatting About a Resource details how you can talk to the virtual assistant about a specific course resource instead of interacting with it generically. This is useful if you want help on a particular lesson or homework.

Viewing Older Conversations

Older conversations can be accessed via the Conversations page.

In this example, the user asks a question about integer representations. The assistant answers and cites the lesson on integer representations.
The attach files button.
An example where a paragraph was screenshot into an image and pasted to ask a question about it.