Build with Claude or ChatGPT

Let Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app build draft activities in Taktyl for you, with your permissions. Also called an MCP connection.

What it is

You can let an AI chat app, such as Claude or ChatGPT, work in your Taktyl for you. You type what you want in the chat, in your own words, and it reads or builds it in Taktyl. It can do only what you can do yourself, in one organisation, and only after you sign in to Taktyl and choose Allow. You can remove it at any time.

You may hear this called an MCP connection. MCP is the technical name for the way AI apps connect to other software. You do not need to know it to use it.

Another way

Suggest from notes in the interaction editor uses your organisation's own AI provider to suggest terms and questions from notes you paste, one at a time. It needs no outside AI app. See Suggest terms and questions from your notes.

Before you start

A Claude or ChatGPT account that can add a custom connector. If your university gives you Claude or ChatGPT, the person who runs that account may have to add Taktyl first. Some ChatGPT plans need a setting called developer mode, and some let ChatGPT only look. Their own help has the details.
The Taktyl side. AI connections come with the Department and Institution plans. They are on unless an organisation admin has switched AI assistants off in Organisation › Settings › AI features.
A staff account. Students cannot connect.
If you are a workspace leader or an organisation admin, Taktyl asks you to set up a second way to sign in first, as it does for every screen you use.
Other AI apps. Perplexity, on a paid plan, connects the same way: add Taktyl as a custom connector. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google's Gemini Enterprise can connect when your IT team sets them up. AI apps on your own computer, such as VS Code or Claude Code, can connect too. Other AI apps cannot connect yet. If you need one, ask Taktyl support.

Connect

Taktyl's address for AI apps is on Account › Integrations, under AI connections. It ends in /mcp.

In Claude

Open Settings, then Connectors.
Choose Add custom connector. Claude calls this a custom connector.
Give it the name Taktyl and paste Taktyl's address for AI apps.
Choose Connect. A Taktyl page opens: sign in if you are asked.
Read what it will be able to do. Tick Allow changes to drafts if you want it to build and publish; leave it clear and it can only look. Tick Let this AI see students' names only if you want it to see each student's results; leave it clear and it sees totals only.
Choose Allow. You are back in Claude, connected.

In ChatGPT

Open Settings, then Apps (or Connectors, on some plans).
Add a new app, and paste Taktyl's address for AI apps.
When it asks how to sign in, choose the option that signs you in to Taktyl; ChatGPT calls it OAuth.
Sign in to Taktyl, read what it will be able to do, tick Allow changes to drafts if you want it to build and publish, tick Let this AI see students' names if you want it to see each student's results, and choose Allow.

Try it

Start with: "Which activities can you see in Taktyl?"

Then, for example:

"Make a draft activity called Week 3: the hand, with a short intro page and a 6 question quiz on the carpal bones. Give every question feedback for a right and a wrong answer."
"Look at my activity Medication safety and tell me what would stop me publishing it."
"Turn these ten terms into flashcards in a new draft, and add a matching game with the same words."
"Which questions in my Cell biology quiz do students get wrong most often?"
"In my draft Contract law basics, move the case study page before the quiz and make the quiz count double."
"Copy my live activity's Wound care quiz so I can try a harder version in a draft."
"Copy my live activity Wound care, and add a question on dressings to the copy."

Next steps: Getting started with Claude or ChatGPT.

What it can do, and what it will not do

It reads the activities, interactions, folders, themes, templates and library files you can open.
With Allow changes to drafts, it makes and changes draft activities that students cannot reach yet: pages, interactions, quiz questions with their right answers and feedback, scoring, settings, the theme, the cover and finish screens, folders, and templates of your own or your workspace's.
It never changes anything students can reach: an activity that has been published, even one taken down, or an interaction such an activity uses. It makes a copy for you instead, works on the copy, and you move the changes over yourself.
It publishes a new activity, or a copy, when you ask it to, through the same Publish button you use, with the same checks. An activity students already have is yours to publish again, and it never takes an activity down: that stays yours.
It never deletes. It can take a page or a question out of a draft, and put it back.
It never marks, grades, gives feedback to a student, gives an extension, or changes your LMS.
It sets when an activity opens and closes only before the activity is first published.
There is no upload: add pictures and files to the library in Taktyl, and it can use them from there.

The full list is on AI connections for IT and developers.

Is it safe?

It sees only what you can see in Taktyl, in one organisation.
What it reads in Taktyl is sent to the company behind the AI app (for example Anthropic for Claude, OpenAI for ChatGPT, Microsoft for Copilot) and handled under your own account with them. Check your university's rules on AI first.
It sees totals only about students, unless you tick Let this AI see students' names: then it sees each student's name, attempts, scores and answers, but never an email address. Any total from fewer than 5 students is held back either way. To change this later, disconnect the app on Account › Integrations and connect it again.
Leave Allow changes to drafts clear and it can only look.
You get a notification when it connects, when it publishes for you, and when it is disconnected.
Your organisation's administrators can see every connection, and every change it makes is in the organisation's audit log as made by you through it.

Remove it

Go to Account › Integrations, find it under AI connections, and choose Disconnect. It stops at once. Remove Taktyl from Claude's or ChatGPT's own settings too. A connection not used for 30 days asks you to sign in again.

When it says no

"This connection may read only": you left Allow changes to drafts clear. Disconnect it and connect again with it ticked.
"This connection sees totals only": you left Let this AI see students' names clear. If you want it to see them, disconnect the app on Account › Integrations and connect it again with that box ticked.
"…is open to students, so the assistant cannot change it": the activity has been published, or the interaction is used by one that has. Ask the app to copy the activity and work on the copy, then move the changes over yourself.
"Publish refused it": the same check as your own Publish button found something to fix, such as a picture with no description. Ask it what, and fix it or tell it what to write.
"You have reached the limit of 30 AI publishes an hour": wait for the time it gives.
"…stopped this call" or "…paused this connection": it asked the same thing over and over. It stops for 15 minutes; tell it what you wanted again, in other words.
"You have reached the limit of 300 AI changes an hour": wait for the time it gives.

For IT and developers

See AI connections for IT and developers.