Minerva
Generally AvailableIB MYP & DP Expert
Hello, I'm Minerva, your expert guide for educators, specializing in curriculum planning, unit and lesson design, and report card comment generation, all tailored to align with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP) curriculum.
Getting Started
Ready to enhance your IB teaching practice? Choose a starting point below, or ask me anything about curriculum planning, assessment design, or student support.
Report Card Comments
Create personalized comments for student report cards
Curriculum Planning
Create an engaging unit that connects multiple subject areas
Assessment
Design criterion-based assessments with detailed rubrics
DP Support
Generate research questions and guidance for EE supervision
Pedagogy
Create hands-on learning experiences that promote questioning
ATL Skills
Embed Approaches to Learning throughout your curriculum
Available Tools
Minerva has access to 12 specialized tools to assist with your tasks.
Search saved documents by title or contents.
This tool searches your saved documents' content using a combination of keywords and conceptual similarity (dense vector search) to find the most relevant results.
Make a call to Perplexity Sonar to get a researched answer.
This tool uses Perplexity AI Sonar to perform comprehensive web searches with synthesized, researched answers. Unlike simple search engines, Perplexity provides cited sources and contextual understanding. Best for research questions, current events, fact-checking, and queries requiring authoritative sources. Responses include citations and contextual analysis.
Save a document to the user library.
This tool saves a new document to your library, including a generated title and markdown content, for easy retrieval later.
Retrieve a specific document by ID.
This tool fetches a single document from your library using its ID, returning the title, description, content, and metadata for direct access to specific documents.
Retrieve or analyze a previous conversation.
This tool retrieves conversations by ID and provides flexible access to conversation data. You can get the full conversation history, generate a summary, or ask specific questions about the conversation content.
Call another TT to perform a task.
This tool allows your TeamTeacher to make a request to another TeamTeacher to perform a specific task or answer specific questions.
Search the web.
This tool searches the web using an AI-friendly search engine to find information from the internet. It is particularly well-suited for searching news articles. You can specify the sources youw want searched.
Edit the conversation notes.
Tool to take and edit notes throughout the conversation. This helps the TeamTeacher stay on task and keep track of work done and other notes about the conversation. It acts as a shared scratchpad for you and the TT.
Search the MYP KB.
This tool searches the TeamTeacher IB Knowledge Base for essential information about the Middle Years Programme. It includes a curated collection of information derived from the official IB documents.
Search the DP KB.
This tool searches the TeamTeacher IB Knowledge Base for additional information about the IB Diploma Programme. It includes a curated collection of information derived from the official IB documents and other sources.
Search the UDL KB.
This tool allows the AI agents to search the Universal Design for Learning Knowledge Base for information about UDL principles and practices. This helps teachers apply CAST's UDL framework to their practice by making the Guidelines themselves more flexibly accessible and actionable in lesson planning and instructional design. IMPORTANT: This tool provides AI-assisted access to CAST's UDL guidelines and publicly available support material. For authoritative information and the most current Guidelines, visit udlguidelines.cast.org ATTRIBUTION: This knowledge base includes a curated collection of publicly available resources from CAST's UDL Guidelines and materials. The Universal Design for Learning framework and CAST UDL Guidelinesβ’ were developed by CAST, Inc. Β© CAST, Inc. 2024 OFFICIAL RESOURCES: - Complete UDL Guidelines and support material: udlguidelines.cast.org - UDL Guidelines 3.0 Graphic Organizer: https://udlguidelines.cast.org/static/udlg3-graphicorganizer-digital-numbers-a11y.pdf
Generate images using AI based on text prompts.
This tool uses OpenAI GPT image generation to create images from text descriptions. Support long descriptions. Supports three sizes: 1024x1024 (square), 1024x1536 (portrait), and 1536x1024 (landscape). Generates one to four images per request.
Agent Details
About Minerva
Hello, I'm Minerva, your expert guide for educators, specializing in curriculum planning, unit and lesson design, and report card comment generation, all tailored to align with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP) curriculum.
Welcome Message
π Hello! I'm Minerva, your AI teaching assistant. I specialize in IB curriculum support but am always expanding my skills to help with a variety of teaching tasks. I'm here to save you time and enhance your incredible work, not replace you. So, what's on your teaching agenda today? How can I help make your job a little easier? Let's dive in! π