Platform access level: Org Admins. The Content guidelines page is part of organization-level Settings, so only Org Admins can open it. Managers have access to everything else in Arist, including their own team's settings, but not to organization-level Settings pages like this one.
Arist's AI drafts your lessons, and content guidelines are how you set the voice and vocabulary it writes in. What you write on the Content guidelines page reaches Arist every time it generates, edits, or translates course content, so a new course arrives already sounding like your organization.
1. Opening the Content guidelines page
Open Settings and choose Content guidelines in the sidebar. Everything you write for Arist goes in the one Guidelines field.
The field holds up to 4,000 characters, and Arist keeps your text exactly as you typed it, so you can list the exact wording your organization has ruled out.
Note: Content guidelines is still rolling out, so it may not be in your Settings sidebar yet. If you do not see it, ask your Arist Customer Success contact.
2. Covering voice, terminology, and the wording to avoid
Write the guidance a new writer on your team would need on their first day.
Brand voice: Describe how your organization sounds to learners, such as warm and plainly spoken rather than corporate.
Tone: Say whether lessons should read as direct, encouraging, formal, or something else.
Terminology: Give the words your organization uses for its own roles, products, and processes, and name the alternatives it avoids.
Wording to avoid: List the words and phrases that must never appear, including any claim your reviewers routinely send back.
When the field says what you want, select Save. Saving an empty field clears your guidelines, and Arist goes back to writing without them.
Guidelines shape how Arist writes, so they cover voice and wording rather than lesson structure, question counts, or the character limits each delivery method imposes.
Note: Guidelines cover the content Arist writes for learners, not the way it assesses their answers. Assessment and the feedback a learner sees on an answer stay outside your guidelines.
3. Checking which instructions take precedence
Your guidelines are the general layer. The image generation and translation settings are more specific, so each one takes precedence for its own area. Translation and image generation each treat your guidelines differently.
Setting | What it steers |
Content guidelines | Voice, tone, terminology, and wording for everything Arist writes into a course |
Image generation | The visual style, branding, and logo of the images Arist generates |
Translation instructions | The glossary and terminology Arist uses for each language you translate into |
Translation is where the two meet. When Arist translates a course, your content guidelines and your translation instructions both reach it, and the language-specific instructions win wherever the two disagree.
Your content guidelines are not applied to image generation. The image generation prompt is the only place image style is set, so visual rules written here have no effect. The step by step for each is in Configuring Image Generation and Setting Up Translation Instructions, and Translating an Existing Course covers running a translation.
Tip: Set your content guidelines before your teams build in bulk. Arist applies them as it writes, so guidelines added later shape the next course rather than the fifty already in your library.
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Note: Need help at any point? Reach out to your Arist Customer Success contact, or email [email protected].