Nurture Signal tutorials

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

Getting started

Introduction to Nurture Signal

An introduction to Nurture Signal: what it is and how it gives you real-time visibility into student understanding in class.

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Engage, Live Quiz and Assessment: which session type to use

The three Signal session types, what each one is built to do, and how to pick the right one for your lesson.

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How to create and run an Engage session

Set up an Engage session, use the six check-in types, run it live with your class, and read the insights afterwards.

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How to create and run a Live Quiz session

Generate hinge questions, release them one at a time in class, and use the Barton scale to decide whether to reteach, recap or move on.

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How to create and run an Assessment session

Set an Assessment for students to complete in their own time, and understand the confidence and reflection steps they work through.

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Getting started with Nurture Signal in Canvas

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How to access the three session types in Canvas

Where Engage, Live Quiz and Assessment live when you use Nurture Signal inside Canvas, and where students go to find each one.

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How to create and run a Quiz Assessment in Canvas

Create a Signal Assessment from Canvas Assignments, assign and publish it in Canvas, then see what students do and what comes back to you.

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Example sessions per subject

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Setting up a check for understanding session for HASS

Two worked examples — Geography and English — of the prompt that generates hinge questions for a HASS lesson.

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Setting up a check for understanding session for Maths and Science

Two worked examples — Probability and Forces and Motion — plus how to handle mathematical and scientific notation.

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Setting up a check for understanding session for HPE and Digital Technologies

Two worked examples — The Body and Physical Activity, and Data Representation — and what makes a hinge question effective.

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Creating sessions

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Generate a whole session with AI

Describe your lesson and let AI build the questions and prompts for you.

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Write a question with AI from a prompt

Type what you want to ask and let AI draft the question and answers.

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Creating open answer questions

Ask students to write a response, then mark it against the success criteria and model answer you set.

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Using LaTeX for maths and science notation

Write proper mathematical and scientific notation in any question — from the toolbar, or in LaTeX directly.

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Duplicate a session

Make a fresh copy of a session, carrying its questions across as drafts.

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Prepare questions ahead, then release them one at a time

Build your questions before the lesson and open each one when you reach it.

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Run a quick poll check-in

Ask a question with no right answer and see the group vote live.

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Running a session

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Post an engagement check-in to your class

Ask everyone how they are engaging right now and choose how they answer.

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Adding a question or check-in in the middle of an active session

You do not have to plan every question in advance — add one while a session is running.

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Adding a student reflection in a session

Post a reflection during a live session, or build one into an assessment, and choose from four reflection frameworks.

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Run an engagement checkpoint so everyone answers

Force every participant to show where they are on the engagement spectrum.

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Turn off free reactions during a session

Stop participants reacting on their own so they only respond to your check-ins.

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Shuffle answer options for each participant

Show quiz and poll options in a different order to every participant.

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Using presenter view

Project a session without exposing your teacher screen — set the toggles, then share the presenter tab only.

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How away alerts bring participants back

A chime and a tab alert nudge participants who have switched away when you post something.

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Replay a finished session

Watch an ended session play back exactly as it happened, at your own pace.

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Results & insights

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Reading your Check for Understanding results

Understand what the results panel is telling you and what to do next after each question.

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Seeing every answer at once: the right and wrong grid

The grid shows every student against every question in one view, filling in live as answers arrive.

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Export a participant's insights as a PDF

Save a single participant's insights view as a branded PDF to share or keep.

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Using Signal MCP

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Connecting an AI assistant to Signal

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini to your own Signal data and ask it questions in conversation.

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Hiding names and email addresses from an AI assistant

Stop a connected AI assistant from ever seeing who your students are, while it still does useful work.

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Organisation

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Organising sessions by class with groups

Keep each class’s sessions together with groups — usually one group per class.

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Plans

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Nurture Signal plans: Standard and Premium

What each plan includes and which features need Premium.

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Troubleshooting & FAQ

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My students can't join or log into a session

Stuck on a login screen? In most cases the fix is a two-click toggle: allow guest participants.

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How do I run a session again after it's ended?

You can't reopen an ended session — duplicate it and run the copy.

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How groups work

A group holds one class’s sessions. Open one and you get three tabs: Sessions, Insights and Members.

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Why does a correct guessed answer count as half?

Why the recommendation discounts a correct answer with no reasoning behind it, and how a guess gets flagged.

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Why are low-effort explanations excluded from AI insights?

Stock non-answers dilute the AI summary, so they are left out of it — but nothing is deleted.

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