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September 14–20: Connect your classes and personalize Sparky

Import your Canvas calendar, save reusable prompts, bring research into chat, and customize your practice sessions.

Weekly update:


Bring your class schedule into StudyFetch and shape the way Sparky helps you learn. This week also adds more control over flashcards and spoken lessons, with improvements to notes and practice.

New this week

  • Calendar imports classes and due dates from your Canvas calendar feed. During setup, choose which classes to import and connect each one to an existing study set or create a new set for it. Manage the connection and refresh the feed from Calendar settings, keeping your schedule close to the materials for each class.

  • Prompts lets you save study instructions you want to use again, such as asking for a particular explanation style or a set of practice questions. Create and edit them in the prompt library, then attach one to a message from the chat menu or with an @ mention. Prompts can work alongside your selected teaching plugin.

  • Sparky Chat adds Integrations, including PubMed, so Sparky can search a connected source during your conversation. Choose which sources to enable and review the source links returned in chat. You can also mention a connected source when composing a question.

  • Flashcards adds a Definition first preference to the player menu. Turn it on to see the definition before the term when reviewing term-and-definition cards. The preference is remembered for later practice in the same browser.

  • Tutor Me adds a speaking-speed control to the lesson speaker menu. Slow the tutor down for a detailed explanation or increase the pace for a review session, and adjust it while you study.

  • Live Lecture class-start reminders offer a direct route from a scheduled class into recording. For a class linked to a study set, the reminder opens a new lecture in that set, helping you keep the recording with the right course materials.

Improvements

  • Improved Notes so pasted and dragged images remain part of the saved document. AI edits target the note you are working on and preserve surrounding content, while saved changes and revision decisions carry through when you leave and reopen the page.

  • Improved Read highlighting so overlapping selections retain the portions of text you have marked. Your custom highlight names also appear in the selection menu, making it easier to organize passages with your own labels.

  • Improved QuizFetch grading with a retry option when an answer needs another grading attempt. You can resubmit the answer and continue your practice when the result is ready.

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