How to use LectAIve

Think of LectAIve as a study companion for the lectures your professor prepared. The AI can rephrase, give examples, and quiz you. The source of truth stays the professor’s concepts, numbers, definitions, and required material.

The first time you sign in, LectAIve walks you through a short onboarding survey (about two minutes). You can skip a step and change answers later in Tune my AI.

• Your major, which tells LectAIve your academic area
• Current level (Freshman through Graduate)
• Interests, used for analogies
• How you prefer to learn (analogies, formal definitions, or examples first)
• How much detail you want, and how familiar you already are with the subject
• Whether you want plain language and less jargon
• Career goal

These answers help the tutor talk to you. They do not rewrite the lecture your professor approved.

Personalized support, same professor-approved lecture

Your professor approves one lecture, and that lecture is the shared foundation for everyone in the course. LectAIve does not write a different version of it for each student.

What your answers can change is the support around that lecture. Your familiarity with the subject, how much detail you want, whether you prefer plain language, and your academic area are all signals LectAIve can use to add a short explanation where one is genuinely useful. Your academic area is one of those signals. It is not a fixed track you get placed into.

After onboarding you land on Dashboard. From the left sidebar (or the mobile bar) you can reach:

• Dashboard — greeting, search, continue learning, recaps
• My Learning — enrolled courses, Progress, Quizzes
• AI Study Space — practice tools for decks you select
• Notes — notes you saved during lectures
• Settings — Tune my AI, appearance, voice, account

On the dashboard you may also see Courses Enrolled, Continue Learning, Your lecture recap, Recent Summaries, and Your AI knows you with a Tune my AI → link. Course cards offer Start Learning →, Continue Slides →, or Review → based on saved progress.

Ask AI

In a lecture, the side panel has Ask AI and Quiz. Use Ask AI when you want another angle, still grounded in the course:

• “Explain this differently.”
• “Give me an example.”
• “Why does this formula work?”
• “I don’t understand this concept.”
• “Quiz me on this topic.”

Switch between Text chat and Voice conversation. Quiz this slide or Quiz till this slide if you want a quick check.

Voice conversation

Where your browser supports it, choose Voice conversation, tap the microphone, ask a question out loud, and listen to the tutor. Say “stop” or press the button to end. Your browser may ask for microphone permission. Voice is not identical on every phone or browser.

I'm lost - explain differently

On a slide, tap I'm lost - explain differently. LectAIve writes a simpler or alternative explanation of that slide. This is help for you in the moment — not a rewrite of the official lecture for the whole class.

AI Study Space

Open AI Study Space from the sidebar (the page title is Study Space). Pick a course and lecture decks, then generate:

• Flashcards — flip cards from the selected decks
• Study Guide — a structured summary with key points and definitions
• Practice Quiz — ungraded practice questions with explanations

You may also see Exam readiness and Practice weak spots when LectAIve has enough activity to highlight concepts.

Helpful / Not helpful

Under an AI reply in Ask AI, use the thumbs: Helpful or Not helpful. That reaction is for that answer. It helps LectAIve learn how to tutor you better over time. One thumbs-down does not instantly or permanently rewrite your learning profile.

Was this session helpful?

Separately, at the end of a voice conversation, a longer chat, or a Study Space activity, LectAIve may ask Was this session helpful? This is about the whole session rather than one answer. You can pick Helpful or Not helpful, optionally tap a reason, and optionally add a note. It is entirely optional — close it or press Skip and nothing is recorded. Anything you type stays private; your instructor only ever sees combined counts, never your words and never your name.

Tune my AI

Open Settings (or Tune my AI → on the dashboard). In Tune My AI you can write custom instructions and update stated preferences: major, level, interests, how you prefer to learn, career goal, and detail preference. What you state here takes priority over guesses LectAIve infers from your activity. Preferences still change tutoring, not the professor’s lecture content.

LectAIve remembers the slide you were on and which lectures you have started or finished, so Dashboard and My Learning can show Continue Learning, Continue Slides, or Review. Slide activity can also feed recaps and study suggestions.

That is a record of work in LectAIve. It is not the same as being marked present in a physical classroom just because you opened a lecture.

Your professor’s course content — slides, narration, and required material — stays the course record. Your onboarding answers, Tune My AI notes, and tutoring preferences are used to personalize explanations you see. They should not overwrite the professor-approved lecture for everyone else.

For a fuller description of what is stored and how to export or delete personalization data, read Privacy and data use.