Custom AI Tools – Classroom Hero

Create a Custom AI Tool

Classroom Hero enables teachers to create their very own custom AI Tools. This is a great option if our pre-made tools don’t include what you need, or you may just have an idea for a cool AI Tool.

In this guide, we will walk you through all the steps to create a custom AI Tool.

First, navigate to the AI Tools page from the side menu:

Next, scroll down to the “Custom” section and click “Create AI Tool”

This will bring you to a wizard for creating your AI tools. The first step is fill in general information about your AI Tool. You can provide:

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Tool Name (e.g. Essay Grader)

Tool Description

Your preferred output format (typically just select both options)

Next, we will configure the fields for your AI Tool. Fields will be what your tool takes as its input.

To add a new field, click on the “Add Fields” button in the bottom right

This will bring up our form builder, where you can add as many fields as you’d like to your custom tool.

To add a field, click on the field type in the left column.

This will insert the field into your form on the right. You will need to provide:

A Field Name

Field Variable (this will be used later when we customize the AI Prompt, and you can generally leave this unchanged)

Optional placeholder text for the input (you can skip this for now)

For our Essay Grader tool, we will just add one Text Area field where you can paste in the student’s essay, and call the Field “Student Essay”. This will also auto-populate our variable to student_essay.

Next we will customize the AI prompt for this tool. Click “Configure AI

This will bring up our AI customization form where you can fine-tune the prompt to your needs.

There are two fields that you can provide:

A System Prompt - which is a set of instructions you write to tell the AI how to behave before the prompt runs. Sort of like a persona for your AI. For our Essay Grader tool, we will tell the AI that they are a veteran teacher that specializes in grading essays:

Prompt Template - This is the actual prompt that the AI will execute, and here is where you will reference the field variables that you created in the previous step. This allows you to customize the prompt to your needs and insert the user’s input (you) into the final prompt.

For our Essay Grader tool, type this into the Prompt Template:

“Grade the following elementary level essay:”

Next, we need to reference the field you created in the previous step using the variable. This will pull in the actual essay into the prompt. Start by typing the open bracket character “{”. This will bring up all of the variables that you can reference in your prompt:

Click on the student_essay variable and that will finish adding that reference to your prompt.

Lastly, click “Create AI Tool” and that’s it! We’re ready to actually use our new AI Tool

Use Your Custom AI Tool

It’s time to actually use our new Essay Grader tool that we created.

From the AI Tools page, find the tool that you just created

This will bring up the generation page, similar to our pre-made tools.

Simply provide a student’s essay in the text area that we created, and click “Generate”

Congratulations! You’ve successfully created your first Classroom Hero AI Tool and used it to grade an essay!

Your custom generations will appear under “Generated Content” with the rest of your AI content.