Assistant skills: save your way of working

Use a skill for work you do again and again in the same way: how you build a reading worksheet, how your lesson plans are structured, how you differentiate tasks, how you write feedback.

Instead of repeating your requirements in every conversation, you ask the assistant to use the skill by name. It finds the skill, follows its instructions and opens a supporting reference only when it needs it. Your method then stays the same when the topic or the conversation changes.

1. Open the Skills page: in Praktikratt, click Show settings and then Manage skills next to Skills.

2. Click New skill. Fill in the Name, a short Description and the Audience (Teacher, Student or Both).

3. Under Instructions, write step by step what the assistant should do, for example: write a short text, add three questions (a fact, an inference, a reasoned opinion), give a hint that helps students start without giving the answer.

4. For a longer document such as a grading guide, click Add reference and fill in its name, a description of when to open it, and its content. Mention it in the instructions so the assistant knows when to use it.

5. Click Create skill.

6. To change a skill, open it, click the pencil, edit the instructions and click Save changes.

7. In your connected chat, ask for example: “Use the skill ‘Reading task builder’. Make a 6th-grade worksheet about the library bus.” Then open the worksheet in Praktikal and check it.

• One task per skill. Numbered steps and concrete requirements work better than general advice.

• Keep long rubrics and examples in references, so the instructions stay short.

• Skills with the Student audience can be chosen for the assistant students use in a presentation.

• Share with organisation or Make public lets colleagues use your skill. Export downloads it as a file.

• A skill guides the assistant but does not guarantee the result. Always review what it creates.