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Turn your notes into practice you can check.

It's 2 AM and you're stuck on problem 5. A generic chatbot hands you an answer with no connection to your course, and it shows on exam day. Build a study assistant from your own notes and readings instead: work through the next step, revisit source passages, and practice.

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Create an account, verify your email, then set up with your own notes.

Chat titled "Meiosis I vs II" with a personal study assistant called My BIO 101 Study Space. The student asks whether meiosis II halves the chromosome number; the assistant corrects them, explains reductional versus equational division with inline citation chips to the student’s own Week 5 notes, quotes an exam tip from those notes, and offers a practice question.
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Product screenshot. A personal study assistant corrects a misconception before a midterm, citing the student's own notes. Switch subjects to see the same check in other courses. Demo study data; generated responses vary.

Already have a course assistant?

Open your instructor's course link or invitation and follow its access instructions. No link yet? Check your syllabus or ask your instructor.

Study examples

Work through the next step with your notes.

Pick a subject to see one study loop over course notes: a targeted question, an explanation with a citation, a practice attempt, and feedback that sends you back to the passage. An instructor-provided course assistant works the same way from the sources and guidance they configured.

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My PSY 101 Study Assistant Personal study space
Student studying from their own notes
1 Selected source

My PSY 101 notes: operant conditioning Pasted text - Personal study collection

Reinforcement makes a behavior more likely; punishment makes it less likely. "Positive" means a stimulus is added and "negative" means one is removed, not good or bad. Negative reinforcement removes something unpleasant so the behavior happens more often, e.g. buckling a seatbelt to stop the warning chime.

2 Exchange
  1. Learner

    Isn’t negative reinforcement just another name for punishment? Both sound like something bad happening.

  2. My PSY 101 Study Assistant

    Your notes separate the two by what happens to the behavior: reinforcement makes it more likely, punishment makes it less likely. "Negative" is not about good or bad; it means a stimulus is removed. In the seatbelt example the chime stops, so buckling up becomes more likely. A behavior increased by removing something is negative reinforcement.

    Try one: a student with a headache takes a painkiller, the headache fades, and next time they reach for it sooner. Which of the four quadrants is that?

    • 1 My PSY 101 notes: operant conditioning - p.1 - Personal study
  3. Learner

    Positive reinforcement, because taking the pill has a good outcome?

  4. My PSY 101 Study Assistant

    Check the two questions your notes ask, in order: did the behavior become more or less likely, and was a stimulus added or removed? The behavior went up, so it is reinforcement. Now look at the headache itself.

    Was something added or removed when the headache faded, and what does that make the quadrant?

    • 1 My PSY 101 notes: operant conditioning - p.1 - Personal study
Illustrative example. The incorrect attempt is the learner’s own work; check important steps against your course material.
  • Grounded in your material. A personal study assistant references the lecture slides, readings, and notes you provide. An instructor-provided assistant uses the sources its owner selected.
  • Active practice. Ask for the next step, attempt a practice item, and get feedback that points back at the passage, instead of reading a finished solution.
  • Inspectable sources. Where a citation is available, trace an explanation back to the relevant passage. A citation makes a claim checkable; it does not make it automatically correct.
How it helps

Built to make you better, not dependent.

The point is not to do the work for you. It is to help you work through ideas so you build understanding you keep.

Socratic guidance

When an instructor configures Socratic guidance, or you pick a guided study template, the assistant can offer questions and hints before, or instead of, a final answer, so you work the problem and check your own reasoning.

Targeted review

Ask the assistant to revisit a specific topic from last week, point you to a relevant section of the course materials, or generate practice questions around the concepts you find most challenging.

Connect the dots

Ask for a study guide, compare two readings, or connect a lecture's themes to a specific passage. Where two sources disagree, ask the assistant to separate what each describes from how each explains it.

Your study space

Build study assistants from your own notes.

Use an official course assistant when one is provided, or create a private study assistant from your own permitted notes without waiting for an instructor to configure anything. Your course's AI-use policy and source permissions still apply.

After signup and email verification you land in your workspaces; the first session looks like this.

  1. Bring your materials. Select lecture slides, syllabi, readings, or notes you have permission to use. Upload PDFs, Word documents, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text, and organize assistants by course.
  2. Ask a focused question. Start with the specific concept, derivation, or lab calculation you find confusing. Study templates give you a starting configuration you can adjust.
  3. Check and practice. Review the explanation, inspect available citations, and attempt follow-up practice. Ask for a summary or study guide when that is the output you need.
The same "Meiosis I vs II" chat with a citation opened. A side panel renders the cited BIO 101 Midterm Study Guide from the student’s notes, with PDF, HTML, and Source view tabs, beside the assistant’s answer.
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Product screenshot. Opening a citation shows the passage from your own notes beside the answer, so you can check the explanation against what you actually wrote down. Switch subjects to see other courses' notes.
Security and privacy

Private by default, shared by choice.

Your chats and materials are private unless you choose to share them. The points below say exactly what that means, and where course rules take over from platform settings.

  • No training on your content. Alkimi does not use customer content to train models, and model providers are configured for no-training use. Chats and materials are encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256). Read the security overview
  • Private by default. Instructors cannot open your private conversations, including private chats with their course assistants. Billing managers see credits used per member, not what was said. A chat becomes visible to someone else only when you create a share link. Review privacy and sharing
  • Academic integrity is set by your course. Follow your instructor’s syllabus and AI-use policy. Rules vary by course and by assignment; if permitted use is unclear, ask before submitting AI-assisted work. Learn about teaching controls
Share Chat dialog for the "Meiosis I vs II" conversation. Visibility can be External or Organization, scope is set to "Up to this message", and toggles cover Remove sensitive info (on), Include all branches, and Include citations. A notice reports that the student’s name and organization member names were detected and will be scrubbed. The Existing Links panel reads "No share links yet" and a Create Share Link button sits at the bottom.
Product screenshot. Sharing is something you do on purpose. The share dialog scopes what is included, flags names it detected, and scrubs them before a link exists.
Student plan

One plan, made for students.

For private study assistants built from your own notes. Eligibility is a valid educational email address; monthly, term, and annual billing are on the pricing page. Credits replenish monthly and meter chat and tool usage. Uploading your notes is free.

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Getting started

Questions students ask before getting started

Instructor setup, school-provided access, course rules, private chats, incorrect answers, training, personal study content, and plan costs.

Do I need my instructor to set up Alkimi?

Not always. You can use an official course assistant when an instructor or institution provides one, or create a private study assistant from your own notes and materials on an eligible individual plan. Course assistants follow the sources and teaching rules chosen by their owners, while personal assistants use the materials and settings you choose. If your instructor provided an assistant, open the original course link or invitation and follow its access instructions.

Do I need to pay if my school provides an assistant?

It depends on how the assistant is shared with you. What counts is whether you are a member of the organization that owns the assistant on Alkimi (a school, department, or instructor's account), not which school you attend.

  • When you do not pay: If you open the assistant from a public link, or you were added as a member of the organization that owns it, that organization covers the usage.
  • When you do pay: If you are invited to the assistant as an external member, you need your own eligible plan, even when the instructor who built it teaches at your school. Your chats then use your own credits unless the assistant is public-enabled. Building your own study assistants also needs a personal plan, such as the Student plan.

Is using Alkimi allowed in my course, and will it give me the answer?

Follow your instructor's academic-integrity and AI-use policy for each course. A course assistant may be configured to guide your reasoning, ask follow-up questions, and resist final-answer requests, but behavior depends on the instructor's settings. If a use is unclear, ask before submitting AI-assisted work.

Can my instructor read my private chats?

Instructors cannot open your private conversations. Assistant owners see aggregate activity, while organization billing managers can see how many credits each member uses but not what they said. A conversation becomes visible to someone else only when you create a share, and organization policy controls whether that share can be opened outside the institution.

What should I do if an assistant gives an incorrect answer?

Check the cited course material before relying on an important response. If the answer still looks wrong, rephrase the question, point the assistant to the relevant source, or ask your instructor. Alkimi can make answers easier to trace, but it does not guarantee that every generated response is correct.

Is my data used to train AI models?

No. Alkimi does not use customer content to train models, and model providers are configured for no-training use. Chats and materials are encrypted in transit and at rest, and you control explicit sharing.

What can I put into a personal study assistant?

You can organize personal assistants by course and ground them in supported notes, documents, pasted text, and selected website content. Chat uploads can include images, PDFs, LaTeX, source code, notes, and data files. Available file types depend on the assistant's upload settings and selected model.

How much does the Student plan cost, and what are credits?

See the student pricing page for current rates, billing options, and monthly credit allowances. The Student plan requires a valid educational email. Credits cover messages and other model-powered work; different models and tools use credits at different rates, so usage estimates are not guarantees. Term and annual plans still issue credits monthly.

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