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Fix a Problem

Find quick answers to common questions and get help.

Sayo Chat Guide

Learn how to use our friendly AI chat to help with your lessons.

Apps / Agents Guide

Build canvas apps in chat, save them to your library, and pin them to classrooms.

Using Interactive Agents

Discover how to make your lessons more fun and engaging for students.

AI Interactive Agents

Explore all the AI interactive agents you can use to create materials and save time.

Creating Your Classroom

A step-by-step guide to setting up your class and inviting students.

Building Learning Materials

Learn how to create, organize, and share learning materials with your class.

Making Assignments

How to build and give assignments and projects to your class.

Managing Account

How to change your password, email, and update your profile.

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Interactive Tutorials

Prefer a guided, click-by-click walkthrough? Launch any tutorial and Sayo highlights each step for you right inside the app.

Create a Sayo App

Build an interactive teaching app with Sayo and save it to your Sayo Apps library.

Edit a Sayo App

Rename a saved app, change who can see it, reopen it in Sayo Chat, or add it to a class.

Build a slide deck

Turn a topic into a ready-to-present slide deck with Sayo.

Make a worksheet

Create a printable worksheet or handout as an editable document.

Personalize with Memory

Teach Sayo about you so every chat is tailored to your needs.

Edit Sayo Chat Memory

Walk through every part of your Sayo Memory — your profile, preferences and saved notes.

Use an AI Tool (Lesson Plan)

See how the AI Tools work, using the Lesson Plan generator as an example.

Grade with AI Marker

Upload student work and let Sayo grade it against your rubric.

Split a PDF with AI

Turn one combined PDF of student work into a file per student, then hand it to a class.

Browse Interactive Agents

Find or build ready-made AI tools for your students.

Create an Interactive Agent

Build your own custom AI tool — name it, give it instructions, classify it and publish it.

Use an Interactive Agent

Open one of your own agents and start a chat — or, if you have none yet, find out how to create one.

Set up a Classroom

Create a class to hold your students, materials and assignments.

Navigating Classroom Dashboard

Get to know your classroom dashboard — the Desk feed and the class bulletin board.

Create an Assignment

Build a graded assignment end to end — details, files, AI grading and a due date.

Create a Quiz

Generate an AI-written, auto-graded quiz end to end — brief, settings, generation and the editor.

Create a learning material

Turn an idea into a lesson, worksheet or assignment.

Create New Material

Write a learning material by hand and share it with one class — title, details and an optional resource file.

Generate a material with AI

Let Sayo draft a learning material for one class from a short brief, then refine it together in chat.

Make a Sayo App for this class

Build a brand-new interactive app to bring into this class — we'll start the full Create-a-Sayo-App walkthrough for you.

Make an Interactive Agent for this class

Build a custom AI tool to bring into this class — we'll start the full Create-an-Interactive-Agent walkthrough for you.

Track class progress

Read your class's performance from the Analytics dashboard.

Generate a class report

Let Sayo write an AI summary of your class's performance.

Check on a student

Open one student's work, submissions and AI chat history.