How Aicademy works
Tell Aicademy what you want to learn and it turns it into a personalised study plan — lessons, quizzes, flashcards, and a tutor, all in one place. Here's the whole journey, step by step.
- Step 01
Just say what you want to learn
No forms, no setup. Type it the way you'd think it — “teach me the causes of World War I”, “quiz me on trigonometry”, “flashcards for Spanish verbs”, or just “GCSE Chemistry”. Aicademy reads what you're after and works out whether you need a lesson, a quiz, a flashcard deck, or a full learning path. Prefer to start from your own material? Upload a PDF, Word doc, text or Markdown and it builds from those instead.
- Step 02
Get a plan, not just an answer
Ask for a whole subject and Aicademy maps it into a learning path: the right topics in the right order, laid out as a sequence of lessons and quizzes that take you from the basics to exam-ready. Instead of a wall of text you get a route you can actually follow — and you always pick up where you left off. Only after one thing? Ask for a single lesson, quiz, or deck and you'll skip straight to it.
- Step 03
Learn each topic your way
Open any step and Aicademy writes the lesson as clear slides — one idea at a time, never a wall of text. Because you told it how you learn when you signed up (how you like things explained, the tone you prefer, what makes things click), the wording, depth, and examples are shaped around you rather than a generic average. Want to tweak something? Edit any slide and make it yours.
- Step 04
Test yourself and make it stick
Every path comes with quizzes built in, and you can spin a quiz or a flashcard deck out of any lesson in one click. Quizzes mix multiple choice, multiple-select, true/false, fill-in-the-blank and short answer — each marked instantly with an explanation of why. Flashcards schedule their own spaced review, so the cards you find hard come back sooner and the ones you've nailed space out. Jot notes right beside the lesson as you go.
- Step 05
Stuck? Ask Aica
Aica, your built-in tutor, sits inside every lesson and already knows the slide you're on. Ask it to explain something a different way, give you another example, or go deeper on the bit that isn't landing — no new tab, no re-explaining what you're studying. It keeps you moving instead of sending you back to a search bar.
- Step 06
Come back to everything — and watch it build
Every lesson, quiz, and deck saves to your library. Your flashcards resurface right when you're about to forget them, your streaks and progress track themselves, and each session carries on from the last. One topic at a time, a scattered subject turns into a study habit that actually compounds.
That's the whole loop — and your first lesson or path is ready in a couple of minutes.
Start for freeSee every tool and option in detailThe same topic, built for two different students.
That “shaped around you” from step three isn't cosmetic — it changes what the AI actually writes. Here's the same topic generated for two people with different profiles.
Topic: Mitochondria
Learning profile
- GCSE
- Concise explanations
- Calm tone
- Everyday examples
Generated excerpt
“Mitochondria are like power stations for your cells. They take glucose and convert it into ATP — a molecule your body uses as fuel for almost everything it does. The process is called cellular respiration, and it's why you need to keep breathing.”
Learning profile
- A-Level
- Walkthrough explanations
- Academic tone
- Mastery focus
Generated excerpt
“Mitochondria are the primary site of aerobic cellular respiration. Pyruvate from glycolysis undergoes oxidative decarboxylation in the mitochondrial matrix, feeding into the Krebs cycle. The resulting electron carriers — NADH and FADH₂ — drive ATP synthesis via the electron transport chain and chemiosmosis.”
The vocabulary, the depth of each section, and the examples used are genuinely different — not the same output with a reading level tweak. Your profile shapes what the AI writes.
It's built on how memory actually works.
Re-reading and highlighting feel productive, but they fade fast. Aicademy leans on the two study methods with the strongest evidence behind them — active recall and spaced repetition — and builds them in by default.
The quizzes, the flashcards that resurface right before you forget, the lessons you keep coming back to: none of it is decoration. It's there so what you learn actually stays.
Why active recall and spaced repetition workHow is this different from just asking an AI chatbot?
AI chatbots can explain things clearly.
The difference is everything that comes after the explanation.
- Text in a chat window — nothing structured, nothing saved
- No way to test whether you retained anything
- Nothing to come back to for revision
- No record of what you covered or how you did
- Explains the same way for everyone
- A structured lesson saved to your dashboard
- A quiz generated from your lesson, marked instantly with explanations
- Flashcard deck with a built-in spaced review schedule
- Every lesson, quiz score, and deck saved to your history
- Content shaped to your level, tone, and learning style
You stay in control.
The lessons, quizzes, and notes you generate are AI — so you can edit any slide, question, or line yourself, and Aica answers with the context of the lesson you're on. Prefer material that's been checked by a person? Aicademy also has a growing library of free lessons, each written to an exam specification and reviewed before it's published. Browse free lessons or read how our lessons are made.
Free to start — no card required.
Free plan includes 20 AI creations per month and 10 tutor messages per day. Upgrade to Pro to remove all limits and unlock full analytics, AI revision notes, and PDF export. Compare plans
Frequently asked questions
Aicademy works across academic subjects, university modules, professional qualifications, coding, languages, and most other topics you can clearly describe. It performs best when you're studying a defined subject rather than something highly speculative or rapidly changing.
Yes. Lessons, quizzes, and flashcard decks can all be edited after generation. The AI gives you a strong starting point; you stay in control of the final material.
Not yet. Aicademy is fully responsive and works in a mobile browser for reviewing lessons, flashcards, and quizzes. A dedicated app is on the roadmap.
Everything is private by default. Your lessons, quizzes, flashcards, and notes are visible only to you — the only exception is learning paths you explicitly publish to the Explore page.
No. Aicademy uses Azure OpenAI. Under Microsoft's data handling terms for the API, your inputs and outputs are not used to train, retrain, or improve foundation models.
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