How Smartitude works
Smartitude turns your own course material into practice, then schedules that practice so it sticks. It tests you and explains what you got wrong. It never does the work for you.
1. Add your material
Upload a lecture PDF or slides, a Word document, or a photo of your handwritten notes or a textbook page. You can also paste text. Each upload becomes a study set: a study guide, key terms, flashcards and practice questions, made only from what you uploaded. It takes about a minute. One lecture or chapter at a time works best.
2. Study a little every day
The Today card on the Study tab shows what's due and roughly how long it takes. Press Start today's session. For each card or question:
- Think of the answer, or type it and press Check my answer.
- Reveal it, then say how well you knew it: Again (didn't know it), Good (knew it after a think) or Easy (knew it at once).
- Be honest. Anything you miss comes back later in the same session and again tomorrow; what you know is spaced further and further out. That spacing is what moves things into long-term memory.
Something you've missed before offers Give me a hint before the answer, so the next attempt is a real attempt rather than a reread.
3. Check your answers
On a practice question, type your answer and press Check my answer. You get what you got right, what you missed or mixed up, the reasoning step by step, and a new question on the same idea asked a different way. A wrong multiple choice pick has Why was I wrong?for the same. It explains questions made from your material; it won't answer homework questions you type in.
4. Courses and exam dates
Put each class's uploads in a course, then set the exam datewith the button at the top of the page. Your daily plan then paces new material so you've seen all of it before the exam, and in the final week it puts what you haven't opened first.
The Exam prep tab shows:
- a readiness estimate, built on what you've actually got right after a gap of a day or more;
- the topics most likely to cost you points, and the mistakes still to fix;
- timed practice papers across any part of the course, with a report on where your time went.
5. Essay feedback
Upload or paste a draft, with your rubric if you have one. You get a verdict on each criterion, short quotes showing where it means, and what to fix first. It tells you what's weak and leaves the writing to you: it won't rewrite your sentences or predict a grade.
6. Your progress
The Progress tab shows how much of each course is secure, how often you're right first time, whether things stick after a gap, and your study streak. Securemeans you've recalled something several times running, on separate days, not just seen it. A figure with too few answers behind it shows a dash rather than a guess.
Tips
- A few minutes every day beats an hour the night before.
- Set your exam date early; the plan does the pacing for you.
- Rate honestly. Pressing Good on something you half knew only hides it from you until the exam.
- Flashcards can go to Anki too: open a study set and use Export to Anki.
Help us make it better
You're one of the first students using Smartitude. After each session you'll be asked whether it helped, and Ideas and problems in the account menu goes straight to the person building it. Anything confusing, wrong or missing is worth telling us. You can also email us at hello@smartitude.net.