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You can personalise Arbor AI's responses to fit the unique characteristics of you and your role. Every time Arbor AI generates something for you, it will consider this context.
Why personalise Ask Arbor?
Ask Arbor does not know your personal or professional context unless you provide it.
By taking a moment to set up your personalisation preferences, you save yourself from having to re-explain who you are, who you teach, what you think is important or how you want responses to sound every time you write a prompt.
This makes it easier to get relevant and accurate responses, even if you have not optimised your message using our prompting recommendation.
Take a look at the example below, where you can see the difference between an Ask Arbor response for the question "what's today's attendance like?"
In the above example, you can see that the Ask Arbor response is shorter and offers information specific to a set of students, without this student group being specified in the question.
The reason? This Ask Arbor has been personalised to know that it is speaking to "a teacher who teaches Year 7"
Compare this to the example above. Ask Arbor has provided a bunch of information, but it is quite general and does not apply to specific students. This information might be useful for an attendance officer or admin, but less so for a teacher or head of year.
By adding personalisation, you can ensure that even generic and vague requests are placed within the correct context.
Who can access this feature?
Any staff member can get access to Arbor AI features if they have the right permission. All schools get access to a free allowance of AI credit each month to use as they see fit.
If you cannot see the Ask Arbor button or specific AI features mentioned in this guide, but believe you need access for your role or want to enquire about getting access, please contact your school's admin team and refer them to this guidance on managing AI permissions.
Adding your preferences
To set up personalisation:
Click the Ask Arbor button in the top right corner of your MIS
Navigate to the Ask Arbor slide-over and click the Personalisation tab
Enter your preferences in the About you box
Click Save Changes
Completing the 'About you' section
In the About you section, you define what Ask Arbor should consider when responding to you so that it can tailor the response to you.
You can add things like your role, the data you focus on, or how you like information presented. Your preferences are private and only affect your own Ask Arbor responses. The personalisation you set will apply to all of your Ask Arbor conversations.
Example for Data/Admin roles: "I'm a Data Manager. Please use plain English and avoid technical MIS jargon - I need answers I can share directly with staff and governors."
Example for Teachers (including language preferences): "I teach Year 6. Be professional and friendly. Always use simple language, but be encouraging. Please respond to me in English and Welsh."
Not sure which information to include? Why not Ask Arbor?
Ask something like "I want to personalise you. Can you let me know which kinds of things you think you need to know about me to give me more effective, relevant and accurate responses?", and Ask Arbor will outline the kinds of things you might want to set as a preference.
Using your Chat History
Ask Arbor is not able to 'remember' what you talked about in other chats, yet. So, it can be very useful to switch to or refer back to previous conversations to avoid repeating yourself or asking Ask Arbor to use up AI credits on something you have asked previously.
So, to help you maintain your flow and avoid having to ask the same questions repeatedly, you can surface your recent chat history directly in the Ask Arbor slide-over.
Do this by using the Recent tab next to your main chat. Just click a chat in the list to open it up in the slide-over.
Click the Back button at the top of any chat you open this way to go back to the Recent tab.
This way, you can easily go back to your previous queries and conversations and pick up right where you left off without having to navigate away or start from scratch.
This guide is part of a series of guides. Please find all of the guides in the Welcome to Arbor AI (The Basics) series here.
The guides in this series are:
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