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Polya is a tutor that helps you work through your own course materials. If you use Polya, Scope can send it the Canvas course you’re looking at, so you don’t have to add the course to Polya by hand. To learn what Polya does, see the Polya overview.

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Before you begin

  • Sign in to Scope with the same Google account you use for Polya. See Sign in to Scope.
  • Open the Canvas course you want to send. This works with Canvas courses only.

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Send a course

1

Go to the course in Canvas

Open any page in the course, such as its home page.
2

Open the search bar

Press ⌘+K or Ctrl+K.
3

Type polya

Type polya. The Study in Polya row appears, with the description Send this course to Polya.
4

Send it

Press Enter. Scope shows Bringing this course into Polya… A large course can take a few minutes.
5

Open Polya

When it’s done, Scope shows Course sent to Polya. and how many items it sent. Click Open in Polya to start studying.
Study in Polya is always available in the search bar. There’s no setting to turn it on or off, and it does nothing until you choose it. You can run Study in Polya again later to bring in new material. Items that haven’t changed are skipped, and Scope tells you how many were already up to date. If nothing changed, it says Everything was already up to date.

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Messages you might see

To add a course from Polya itself, see Add a course.