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Xerte Assistants

Xerte Assistants are built-in optional tools designed to improve productivity and speed up content creation.

They are available in the Assistants tab in the right-hand panel of each page. Unlike optional properties, assistants open in a lightbox window and are not added to the page itself.

Currently, three assistants are available.

Available Assistants

Assistant	Description	AI use	Availability	Additional information
AI Assistant	Uses AI to generate content for supported pages more quickly and efficiently.	Yes	Available on supported pages	See Supported Pages and General AI Settings.
Image Search and Help Tool	Searches supported websites for royalty-free images or generates new images using AI.	AI / Non-AI	Available as an optional property on pages where images can be added	See Image Search and Help Tool.
Quick Fill Tool	Automatically creates page structures and sub-pages using default values, reducing repetitive manual configuration.	No	Available on supported pages	See Supported Pages and Quick Fill.

Further Information

Topic	Details
Admin setup	The AI Assistant and Image Search and Help Tool require administrator setup before they can be used. In most cases, this includes configuring API keys or connecting supported external services.
AI permissions	Any feature that uses AI requires the user to have the AI User role. Without this role, AI-based tools may be hidden or only partially available.
AI Assistant visibility	If the AI Assistant is not configured or the user does not have the required role, it will not be visible.
Image Search and Help Tool visibility	If the user does not have the correct role to access AI features, they will still see the non-AI parts of the Image Search and Help Tool, where available.
Quick Fill availability	The Quick Fill Tool does not use AI and is available by default on supported pages.

Video Demos

You can browse through the following page to see video demos of the various assistants:

or view at Xerte Assistant Demos (opens in new tab).

Administrator Information

Assistant features come with their own role, as well as various ways to tweak base settings, which vendors are available, and which models/options are used per vendor. You can find more about that here:

or view at Xerte Assistant Admin Reference and Installation Guide (opens in new tab).

Notes

Assistants are intended to reduce repetitive manual work.
Availability may depend on page type, administrator configuration, and user permissions. If you belive you should or shouldn't be seeing some of the assistant properties, please contact the administrator of your Xerte installation.

Supported Pages by Assistant

AI Assistant

The following Xerte pages support AI generation:

Text

Bullets / Timed Content
Columns (either multiple at once or on a per-column basis)
Orientation
Plain Text
Summary

Navigators

Flash Cards
Multi Navigator (including on an individual page level)
Multiple Perspectives (available for all subpages)
Tabbed Navigator+ (available on tab and page level)

Interactivities

Answer X of Y
Button Sequence
Categories
Dialogue
Documentation (available for all subpages)
Gap Fill
Highlight Text / Note Taking
Interactive Text
Interactive Video
Inventory
Matching Texts
Modify Exercise
Multiple Choice Question
Opinion
Quiz
Sortable Grid
Stimulating Question
Text Correction
Timeline / Matching Pairs (both options)

Games

Crossword
Hangman
Wordsearch

Media Pages

360 Image
Advanced Image
Audio Slideshow
Flickr Slideshow
Graphics and Sound
Image Sequence (also for single image)
Image Viewer
Morph Images

Quick Fill Tool

Pages that support Quick Fill generally include pages with a significant number of available sub-pages. The full list is shown below.

Text Pages

Columns