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.
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.