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Cogniti Onboarding: Setting Up Your AI Tool for Student Use

June 23 @ 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Facilitators: 
Derek Hunt, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI
Victoria Sheldon, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI 

Cogniti is U of T’s platform for building course-specific AI tutors: grounded in your content, aligned with your pedagogy, and deployed directly in Quercus. In this session, we will walk you through everything you need to get your tutor up and running, including how to:

  • Define a purpose and pedagogical role for your AI tutor
  • Learn about the safety guardrails already built in Cogniti and how to include your own.
  • Craft an effective system prompt that guides your tutor’s tone, scope, and responses
  • Upload and integrate your own course materials to ground your tutor in your content
  • Leave with a working tutor draft ready for further refinement or deployment

No prior experience with Cogniti is required: this session is designed for instructors who are just getting started.

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