> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.canvascope.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Polya overview

> Polya is an AI tutor at askpolya.com that teaches from your own course materials and shows the source behind every answer.

Polya is a course-aware AI tutor you use in your web browser at [askpolya.com](https://askpolya.com). You bring in a course from Canvas, from the class website, or by uploading your own PDFs. Polya then answers your questions from those materials, with a numbered citation that opens the exact page or passage it used.

Polya is built to help you learn, not to finish your work for you. On a problem, it starts with a hint and gives one step at a time. You choose how much help you want in each course, and you can change that choice whenever you like.

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  <Card title="Get started" icon="rocket" href="/polya/get-started">
    Sign in, add your first course, and ask your first question.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Add a course" icon="book-open" href="/polya/add-a-course">
    Bring in a course from Canvas, a class website, or your own PDFs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ask questions" icon="comments" href="/polya/chat">
    Chat with Polya and check every answer against its source.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Choose a study mode" icon="sliders" href="/polya/study-modes">
    Pick Open, Guided, Practice, or Review for each course.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prepare for an exam" icon="list-check" href="/polya/study">
    Map an exam's topics and practice questions written from your course.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manage materials" icon="folder-open" href="/polya/materials">
    See what Polya is studying, add files, and check for updates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use Polya in ChatGPT" icon="plug" href="/polya/chatgpt">
    Bring your courses and study modes into ChatGPT.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use Polya in Claude" icon="plug" href="/polya/claude">
    Bring your courses and study modes into Claude.
  </Card>
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## What you can do with Polya

* **Ask about your course.** Ask about a concept, a reading, or a problem you're stuck on. Polya answers from your materials and cites each claim.
* **Check the source.** Select a citation to open the PDF at the cited page, or the passage it came from.
* **Get help at your pace.** Use **I'm stuck — next step** to get the next hint, and **Check yourself** to try a related question on your own.
* **Set how much help you want.** Each course has a study mode. Practice mode, for example, asks for your answer before it reveals anything and hides answer keys.
* **Prepare for exams.** The **Study** tab turns an exam's scope into a topic map and gives you practice questions graded the same way every time.
* **Use it where you already work.** Connect Polya to ChatGPT or Claude so those assistants can search your course materials and respect the study mode you chose.

## How a course is organized

Each course in Polya has three tabs at the top of the page:

| Tab | What it's for |
| - | - |
| **Chat** | Ask Polya questions about the course and read cited answers. |
| **Study** | Add an exam, build its topic map, and practice. |
| **Materials** | Choose the study mode, add files or a course website, and see everything Polya is studying. |

## What you need

* A Google account to sign in.
* A web browser on a computer, tablet, or phone.
* Course materials to bring in, from at least one of these places:
  * A Canvas course. You connect with the [Scope extension for Chrome](/chrome/overview) or with a Canvas access token.
  * A public course website.
  * PDFs or lecture transcripts on your device.

<Note>
  Polya is an AI tutor, and its answers can be wrong. Every answer that uses your course shows its sources, so you can open the page and check. You choose each course's study mode yourself; instructors can't set it. Your syllabus and your school's honor code decide what help is allowed in a course.
</Note>

## Polya and your Scope account

Polya is part of Scope. The account you sign in to Polya with is the same account you use for Lectra and the Scope extension. To learn more, see [Your Scope account](/get-started/account).

## Related

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  <Card title="Privacy and data" icon="shield" href="/polya/privacy-and-data">
    What Polya stores, how it's used, and how to remove it.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" icon="wrench" href="/polya/troubleshooting">
    Fix sign-in, import, chat, and connector problems.
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