What Are Assistants
Assistants in Personify are AI-powered tools you can choose to make available in an assignment. Each assistant has a different focus, like checking grammar, giving rubric-based feedback, or supporting reflection. How do I set up an assignment?
You decide which assistants to enable for your students. If you don’t turn one on, it won’t appear in their writing workspace at all.
Assistants are designed to guide students and help them improve their own work. They cannot and will not write or complete assignments for students.
If you enable an assistant, it will appear in the bottom toolbar of the writing workspace where students can open it and interact with it while they work.
Every time a student uses an assistant, the interaction is stored in the Assistant History, so you can see exactly how the tools were used during the writing process.
Rubric Assistant 
The Rubric Assistant uses the rubric and assignment instructions you’ve written to give students feedback while they draft. When students open it in the writing workspace, it asks “Would you like me to compare your paper to the assignment requirements?”
When they say yes, it scans their draft against your rubric and points out things like:
whether the thesis is clear and focused
if required sections are missing
where they might need more detail or evidence to meet expectations
By referencing your rubric categories, it guides students toward meeting the specific expectations you’ve outlined.
Grammar Assistant
The Grammar Assistant reviews student drafts for grammar, spelling, and punctuation issues. You can choose how much feedback it provides by setting the assistance level:
Low
Identifies the first instance of each type of error
Explains why it’s incorrect
Requires the student to correct the rest on their own
Medium
Identifies the first two instances of each error type
Explains why they are incorrect and demonstrates how to fix them
Requires the student to correct the remaining errors independently
High
Identifies every error in the draft
Explains why each one is incorrect
Demonstrates how to fix them
Provides corrected examples for the student to review
Writing Assistant 
The Writing Assistant gives students feedback on how to develop and improve their draft. When enabled in the writing workspace, students can open the assistant to get guidance on strengthening their writing.
It focuses on things like:
clarity of ideas and explanations
organization and flow between paragraphs
ways to expand or deepen their arguments
suggestions to make writing more precise and engaging
Translation Assistant 
The Translation Assistant helps students translate their writing into another language. It is especially useful in multilingual classrooms or when students are working in a non-native language.
It can:
translate a passage the student writes into a different language
translate text from another source into the language of the assignment
help students compare meaning across languages to ensure accuracy
Blank Template 
The Blank Template gives you the flexibility to create a custom assistant for your assignment. Unlike the other assistants, which are prebuilt with a specific purpose, the Blank Template starts empty and lets you define its role.
When you set it up, you’ll see options to include assignment variables like:
assignment instructions
rubric
current student work
word count
You can then write a prompt that tells the assistant how to use this information. For example, you might build a custom assistant that checks whether students have included a minimum number of sources, or one that asks reflection questions tied directly to your course outcomes.