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Choosing a Model
Claude offers several models, each built for a different balance of speed, depth, and cost.
As a general rule, faster and lighter models work well for quick questions and everyday tasks, while more capable models are better suited for complex writing, analysis, or multi-step problems. If you are not sure which model to pick, Claude's default model is a reasonable starting point for most work.
For a full breakdown of each model and when to use it, review Anthropic's guide to choosing the right Claude model.
Personalizing Claude with Instructions and Styles
Claude lets you shape how it responds to you through profile instructions, project instructions, and styles.
Profile Instructions
Profile instructions apply account-wide and carry over into every conversation. Use these for standing preferences, such as your role, your communication tone, or formatting habits you want Claude to follow by default.
Project Instructions
Project instructions apply only within a specific project. Use these when a task or team needs its own set of rules that should not carry over into your other work.
Styles
Styles let you adjust Claude's tone and formatting for a given conversation without changing your account-wide instructions.
For setup steps and a closer look at how these three settings interact, review Anthropic's guide to Claude's personalization features.
Note: Do not enter confidential student, health, or other sensitive personal information into any instructions, styles, or project fields.
Using Projects
Projects create a self-contained workspace within Claude, with its own chat history, files, and instructions. Projects are useful for ongoing work where you want Claude to remember context, such as a specific initiative, department, or recurring task, without repeating yourself in every conversation.
Inside a project, you can upload reference documents, add project-specific instructions, and keep related conversations together in one place.
For steps to create and manage a project, review Anthropic's guide to projects.
Using Artifacts
Artifacts are a dedicated window where Claude can build substantial, standalone content separate from the main conversation, such as documents, code, slide decks, spreadsheets, and interactive tools. Artifacts are useful any time you want to review, edit, or reuse a piece of content on its own rather than reading it inline in the chat.
For a full overview of what artifacts can do and how to use them, review Anthropic's guide to artifacts.
Chat Search and Memory
Claude can search your past conversations to bring relevant context into a new chat.
Memory and chat search are scoped separately for each project, so context from one project will not carry into another or into your standalone chats.
For details on how this works and how to manage or turn off memory, review Anthropic's guide to chat search and memory.
Support
For questions about your Claude @ UW-Green Bay access or license, contact the GBIT Service Desk.
For questions about how a specific Claude feature works, Anthropic's Claude Help Center is the most current source and is updated more frequently than this article.