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We've opened it up for select instructors and are waiting for expanded functionality before going broader. From our experience, a large percentage of our users deliver content via files in Canvas rather than on Pages. Since the search is mostly of pa...

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Hi! We got Smart Search activated in our production environment, but we would like to test in the beta environment only. How can we get it activated in our beta?

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Currently, it's enabled for our online high school for their summer session. I work in the same department, so it's easy to facilitate communication. I'll enable it for additional schools when they return from break.

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From the FAQ: What AI is being used? Our Smart Search feature relies on an AI-adjacent technology called “embeddings.”  It currently uses the Cohere Embed Multilingual model hosted on AWS. The “nutrition label” below answers some key questions at-a-g...

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Question: Last week, I enabled the SmartSearch feature under Account Settings, and after some exploration, I temporarily disabled it for further testing and faculty notification. However, as of yesterday, the option to re-enable SmartSearch under Acc...

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In the “What is Smart Search” panel, I highlighted a couple of sentences that could raise an eyebrow for faculty at our institution....The question we'd like to ask is: How does Instructure communicate security and privacy around Smart Search? In oth...

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Hello! I enabled it for our entire institution. However, we are on summer break so the only teachers that will see this are those that are working over the summer. I do plan on communicating the feature to those who are coming in this summer to work ...

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Hello fellow SmartSearch beta testers! I am curious as how you plan to beta test at your institution. Will you go campus wide? Are asking specific programs or instructors to test it in their courses?  Thank you in advance for sharing!

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