AI Tutor and source content

Hi JBB​,

AI Tutor is grounded in the published course content and can reference that content in its responses. However, direct access to source files isn't available at this time. This means source materials used during course creation, including files uploaded to AI Assistant, aren't used as an additional knowledge source for AI Tutor.

Regarding PDFs, AI Tutor can reference content that exists within the course itself, but direct access to source files isn't currently supported. As a result, content contained only within a PDF resource wouldn't be available to AI Tutor unless that information is also included in the course content.

As for future plans, we're considering ways to expand this capability, such as through a resource library.

If having AI Tutor use uploaded source materials would be valuable for your use case, I'd encourage you to share that feedback directly with our team here. Feedback submitted through that form goes directly to the product team working on that feature.

Hi Eric,
Thanks for your precise and quick response.

Hi JBB​, the AI Tutor only scans text that is entered directly into the platform. It cannot use videos or attached documents as a knowledge source.

However, I tested a workaround that worked for me.

You can add a Code Block from the library and paste the following code:

<div style="position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);white-space:nowrap;border:0;padding:0;margin:0" aria-hidden="true">

Enter all the text from your documents here, or any information you want the AI Assistant to access. This can include video scripts, PDF content, or other reference material.

</div>

You can use ChatGPT to convert your documents into text before adding them to this block which can be used by the AI Tutor as knowledge.

The content will remain hidden from learners and will only take up a very small amount of space. If you place it at the bottom of any lesson, it will not be noticeable.

What about content added as code blocks?

We use code blocks extensively because Articulate has not updated accordions and other block types in over 10 years+ so we're forced to get creative just to have basic things like correctly formatted bullet points, and interactions beyond flip cards.

Are we sure that the AI Tutor has visibility into content placed inside Rise code blocks, or is that treated the same as an uploaded file (i.e. not referenced)?

However, it doesn't look like AI tutor references any text added as a custom block, correct? Will this be available in the future?

Hi Christie,

How did you add content to a custom block?

My tests show that when too large and added by the way of a zip file, it's not added to AI tutor, while a text that is copied and pasted will be added to AI tutor's references (I don't remember the length I've tested, I will look at it tomorrow)

Can someone help explain to me why, for source files, I have trouble allowing it to reference Articulate's own support pages? This sounds counterintuitive to me. Here is an example of a link I want it to be able to reference: A Growing List of Cool Code Block Examples | E-Learning Heroes

I get an error because it changes it to a .txt file - "community-articulate-com.txt"

Thank you!