Nurture Assessments tutorials

Short, practical walkthroughs for Nurture Assessments. Browse by task below, or jump straight to a category.

Getting started on Microsoft Teams

Installing Nurture on Teams

Add Nurture as a tab in your Teams channel. Installing it for yourself makes it available to every student already in the team.

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Setting up your Classroom on Nurture and the Curriculum Boundary

Choose your subject, set your students’ reading age, and upload the curriculum boundary documents that feed the Nurture AI Assistant.

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Editing your Classroom Settings & Curriculum Boundary on Nurture

Update your subject, reading age and notifications, and keep your curriculum boundary current as your course moves on.

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Getting started on Canvas

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Setting up your classroom settings (Canvas)

Nurture is already installed school-wide on Canvas. Just tell it about your class so everything it creates is pitched correctly.

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Setting up your curriculum boundary (Canvas)

Upload your curriculum documents in Canvas so the Nurture AI Assistant keeps everything it creates at the right level.

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Task creation

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The four ways to create a task, and when to use each

Task code, worksheet upload, past exam question, or start from scratch: pick the right starting point for your task.

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Creating Tasks from Scratch with the Nurture Assistant

Every field on the task creation screen explained: description, sources, question count and style, difficulty, reading age and more.

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Creating Tasks from Worksheets in Nurture

Upload a worksheet and Nurture keeps your exact questions, adding pedagogy-aligned success criteria on top.

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Creating Tasks from Past Exam Questions

Upload a past paper and Nurture pulls the exact questions in verbatim, adding success criteria for exam-style practice.

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How to use task codes in Nurture

Share a task with a colleague, load one shared with you, or reuse your own task in another class with its unique code.

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Refining and Editing Your Tasks with AI

Edit your questions, success criteria and marking scheme with the Nurture AI Assistant before a task goes to students.

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How to Configure Feedback Settings for Your Tasks

Set reading age, custom instructions, comment length and languages so the Assistant gives every student the feedback you want.

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How to Assign, Schedule, and Set Due Dates in Nurture

Assign a task to all or specific students, set the due date, or schedule it to go out automatically later.

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Saving Tasks as Drafts in Nurture

Save a task as a draft to finish later, and let auto-save keep your progress safe in the background.

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Creating Canvas Assignments with Nurture

Add Nurture to an existing Canvas assignment as the submission method, or let Nurture generate a brand new assignment for you.

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Feedback creation & publishing

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Overview of How Creating and Publishing Feedback Works in Nurture

The two-step feedback process: review each student individually, then publish to your class when you are ready.

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How to Edit AI Feedback in Nurture

Refine draft feedback with the structured question flow or your own instructions. The teacher is always in the loop.

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How to Edit AI Grading in Nurture

What informs an AI grade, why the marking scheme matters, and how to edit a score you do not agree with.

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How to Upload Work on Behalf of a Student in Nurture

Upload work a student completed outside Nurture and let the Assistant draft their feedback and grading.

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Transcribing Handwritten Work with AI in Nurture

Upload photos of handwritten work for feedback and grading, with optional AI transcription into readable text.

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How to Generate Feedback Without Student Work (Genuine Attempt)

Create pedagogy-aligned feedback for a student who genuinely attempted the task, even with no work on file.

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How to Generate Feedback Without Student Work (No Attempt)

Write a short, supportive comment that meets a disengaged student where they are and helps re-engage them.

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How to Publish Feedback and Choose Reflection Types in Nurture

Publish feedback to your class, pick the emoji or 3-2-1 reflection, and see which success criteria the class struggled with.

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Exporting a student's submission, feedback and reflection to PDF

Save a student's submission, feedback and reflection as a single PDF for records, sharing or printing.

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Student experience

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Finding Nurture in Microsoft Teams

Where to find Nurture inside Microsoft Teams, and the one-time prompt to accept so your teacher can see you in the class.

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Ways to submit your work

The three ways to hand in your work (typing into Nurture, uploading a document, or uploading photos) and when to use each.

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Troubleshooting & FAQ

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Why is Nurture generating questions at the wrong level?

What to check when questions come out too hard, too easy, or at the wrong qualification: it usually comes down to the curriculum boundary.

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Can I edit a task after it's been generated?

Yes: a generated task is a starting point you can review, change, and reshape with the Nurture AI Assistant before assigning.

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My uploaded rubric wasn't properly used in grading

What to check if grading doesn't seem to reflect the rubric or mark scheme you uploaded, and how to get it applied properly.

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My student doesn't see their feedback

Why a student usually cannot see their feedback (reviewing and publishing are separate steps) and what to check.

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Handling subscript, superscript, and scientific notation

Why photo or document uploads work best for subjects like Chemistry and Maths that need subscripts, superscripts, and worked steps.

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Why doesn't feedback tell my student if their answer was right or wrong?

Why Nurture feedback deliberately avoids simple right/wrong marking, and how reflection-first helps students learn.

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