Chatting with the Assistant

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 chat with the virtual assistant about the course, and it 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.

In this example, the user asks a question about integer representations. The assistant answers and cites the lesson on integer representations.

The Chat Tools

The chat tools are located in the chat input box.

The tools are detailed below and in separate pages.

Screen and Image Sharing

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