Before you assign a tutor to a class, have a conversation with it yourself. It is the quickest way to find out whether the prompt and the settings actually produce the behaviour you wanted.
Starting a test conversation
1. Open the tutor from My Library. Any previous conversations are listed on the left.
2. Click New chat, type a question and press Enter.
Adjusting and testing again
If the answers are not what you expected, click Tutor settings in the top right.
The settings worth trying first:
Prompt. The instructions that define how the tutor behaves.
Knowledge base. Your own documents for it to answer from.
Socratic mode. How much it guides rather than answers: Off, Guided, Adaptive or Socratic.
Suggested questions. Whether it offers follow-ups after each answer.
STEM mode. Accurate calculation and visualisation for maths and science.
Image generation. Whether it can draw to illustrate a concept.
File creation, under Advanced settings. Whether it can make documents students can download, such as revision notes. Ask it for one to check. See Letting your tutor create documents for students.
Click Save changes, go back to the tutor, and start a new chat. This matters: a conversation that is already running keeps the old behaviour, so testing in it tells you nothing.
What to test
Ask something a student would ask, and see whether it guides or just answers.
Ask about content from your uploaded documents.
Ask for a calculation or a graph, if STEM mode is on.
Upload an image or a document and check it reads it properly.
Each new chat is kept in the list on the left, so you can compare how the tutor answered before and after a change.