Everything that shapes how a tutor behaves lives on one page: Tutor settings. Here is what each setting does and what it changes for your students, in the order you will meet them on the screen.
Opening tutor settings
Open the tutor from My Library (or Tutors in the sidebar) and click Tutor settings in the top right.
Change what you need, click Save changes in the top right, then go back to the tutor and start a New chat to try it. A chat that is already running keeps the old settings, so testing in it will not show you the difference. Save changes stays greyed out until you have actually changed something.
Tutor image
The panel on the left sets the picture on the tutor's card. Click Upload an image to use your own (.png or .jpg, under 10MB), or Generate an image to have one made for you. Once there is an image, the two small buttons on it let you Generate a new image or Delete this image. It is purely cosmetic: the picture has no effect on how the tutor talks to students.
Name and Prompt
Name is what the tutor calls itself, and what students see on its card.
Prompt is your brief: who the tutor is for, what it should cover, how it should behave and what it must not give away. The tutor reads your prompt after all the settings below, so it can add to them. A line such as "never give the final answer" still applies with Socratic mode set to Off.
Knowledge base
Switch on Knowledge base and click Upload documents to give the tutor your own material: notes, textbook chapters, past papers, mark schemes. You can add up to 10 files (.pdf, .doc, .docx, .pptx, .txt, .md or .tex, each under 10MB). The switch only stays on once at least one document is uploaded.
With a knowledge base, the tutor searches your files before answering anything they might cover and prefers your material to its general knowledge. If your files do not cover a question, it answers from general knowledge instead.
The eye icon on each document decides whether students can see the file itself. Click it to switch between Visible to students and Hidden from students. Visible documents appear under a Resources button at the top of the tutor page, where students can open them. This is for tutors students open from their classroom, not tutors inside a lesson. Every document starts hidden, and the eye icon saves straight away, with no need to click Save changes. Documents on a public tutor are always hidden from students.
Knowledge base citations (shown once the knowledge base is on) puts a source badge on each part of an answer that came from your files. Students can open the badge to see which document it came from and the passage it drew on. Switching it off only hides the badges; the tutor still uses your documents.
More detail: Using the Knowledge base and Where a tutor's answers come from.
Socratic mode
This is the big one. It sets how much of the thinking the tutor leaves to the student.
Off. Answers directly and gives full solutions, with no Socratic questioning. Handy for a reference tutor.
Guided. Gives part of the answer, or does part of the working, then asks a question so the student fills in the rest. It never does a whole calculation for them, and when a student offers an answer it checks it without giving away the correct one.
Adaptive. Our recommendation for most tutors. It starts with questions only. If a student is genuinely trying but stuck, it moves to partial answers and partial working, then goes back to questions once they are moving again. It never hands over a full solution, and if a student just keeps asking for the answer it stops dropping hints and encourages them to have a go.
Socratic. One question per reply. No direct answers and no calculations, though it will tell a student a fact, formula or definition they could not work out on their own. It checks their answers without revealing the right one.
Each tab on the settings page shows a one-line summary and a tick list. The descriptions above are the more precise version, especially for Guided, which stops partway rather than doing the whole thing. For help choosing, see Which Socratic Mode is right for me?.
STEM mode
STEM mode gives the tutor dedicated maths and science tools for calculations, graphs, chemistry, physics and biology, and tells it to use them for every calculation and to check both its own working and the student's. Graphs come back as images in the chat. In Socratic and Adaptive mode it still will not do a student's calculation for them (Guided does part of it at most); it uses the tools to check their answers instead. See Using STEM mode.
Suggested questions
With Suggested questions on, three short follow-up questions appear under each of the tutor's replies, written as the student might ask them. One click sends the question. Brilliant for the student who is staring at the screen with no idea what to ask next. See Using Suggested questions.
Image generation
Image generation lets the tutor draw a picture when a visual genuinely helps, or when a student asks it to show, draw or illustrate something. It makes at most one image per reply, and there is a daily limit; if that is reached, the tutor says so and carries on in words. See Tutor Image Generation.
Visibility
Visibility decides which educators can find and use your tutor. Students only ever see a tutor that has been assigned to them, whichever option you pick.
Private ("Only available to you"). Only you can find and use it. Students see it when you assign it to a classroom, directly or inside a lesson or pathway.
Organization ("Available to educators within your organization"). Every educator in your organisation can find it, try it, assign it to their own classes and make their own copy. They cannot change your version.
Public ("Publicly available online for others to discover"). Anyone with the link can try it without an account, and educators in any organisation can make a copy. This option only appears for verified organisations.
Once a tutor is shared, a Copy share link button appears beside the dropdown. If the tutor has a knowledge base, sharing it also shares your documents with those educators, and a Heads up! note reminds you. See Sharing tutors.
Advanced settings
Click Advanced settings to open the rest.
File creation (marked Experimental feature, off by default). Lets the tutor make documents students can open and download, such as revision notes, study guides, worked examples, practice sets or data tables, and edit them when asked. It will not write work a student would hand in as their own, and it sticks to your Socratic mode inside documents too. It works in the web app only, not the phone app or voice chat. Copies of a tutor start with it off. See Letting your tutor create documents for students.
AI Model (also experimental). Which AI model runs the tutor. Leave it on the default unless you have a reason to change it. See Changing the Tutor Model.
Short Description. Up to 200 characters, shown when you share the tutor or assign it to a classroom. See Adding a description to your tutor.
Tags. Subject tags that help other educators find a shared tutor. They do nothing while the tutor is Private. See Adding tags to your tutor.
Deleting a tutor
The red Delete tutor box sits at the very bottom. Deleting removes the tutor along with its chats and student data. It goes to Trash first and is deleted for good after 30 days unless you restore it. If it is assigned to any classrooms, those assignments close: students can still read their old chats but cannot start new ones, and restoring the tutor does not reopen them. See Deleting A Tutor and Restoring something from the trash.
If the tutor belongs to a colleague
You can open Tutor settings on a tutor a colleague has shared with you, but you will see Only the owner can make changes and every field is read-only. Visibility, Advanced settings and Delete tutor are hidden. It is a handy way to see exactly how a colleague set up a tutor you like. To make your own version, make a copy: see Copy a shared tutor.
