Ways to study a lecture
Every document has its own page, the one that opens when you tap it. At the top there are four cards, one for each thing you can do with the lecture, and each one starts right away: there is no level to pick before pressing start.
| Card | What it does | What it guarantees |
|---|---|---|
| Study | Mina explains every slide in full, out loud or silently, with the frame pointing at what she is talking about. | Total coverage, verified in code. It is not allowed to add what the slide does not say, and if something slips through, you flag it and it gets reviewed. |
| Practice | A stretch of questions on what you have already studied, getting harder or more guided depending on how you do. | Every question is checked before it is shown, and one that fails the check never appears. |
| Ask | A chat with Mina: ask her anything about the lecture and she answers with your slides, your notes and your material. | It says where each answer comes from (your classes, your notes, your material or beyond it) and shows you the slides, so you can go and look. |
| Review | It gives you a concept with its name and a hint, you write what you remember, and only then do you see the ideas and the slides it comes from. | It draws on what you have already studied, and what you could not recall comes back first next time. |
Which one to use
- Study, the first time and whenever you want it told again. The card shows how many slides you have left and picks up where you were.
- Review, once you have studied it and want to know what stuck. Recalling without looking takes more effort than listening again, and that is exactly why it works better.
- Practice, often, and above all in the days before the exam. The questions are short, and the number at the end is there to show how you are doing from one time to the next, not to pass or fail you.
- Ask, when something does not add up and you cannot remember which slide it was on. For a doubt about the slide in front of you there is the raised hand in the dock, which keeps you in the lecture.
On the Free plan, Practice and Ask have a monthly limit. What each plan includes is on the pricing.
The level of detail
Study explains at the Full level: everything the slide says, skipping nothing, in three to seven ideas per slide. It is the level where coverage is checked block by block.
There is a shorter level, Summary: the essentials, one to three ideas per slide and under thirty seconds, for someone who has already studied it. You do not pick it on the document page: the study plan uses it when a day calls for a quick pass over a lecture. Since it leaves things out on purpose, coverage is not checked in Summary.
There is no detail level to pick in the player, and going over a lecture does not need a shorter one: there is Review, which makes you remember instead of telling it to you again in fewer words.
What sits below the cards
Below the cards are the lecture's summary, your notes and the practice sessions you have done. The summary puts itself together as soon as Filmina reads the deck, before you have studied it, and it opens to the side, just like your notes.
You rename the document by tapping its name. And closing the viewer takes you back to this page, not to the home screen: this is where you carry on from.
Progress and material
The right-hand column opens on Progress, which tells you how you are doing with that lecture in three numbers: the percentage you have already studied, with its bar; how your last practice went, out of 100 and how many you got right; and how much time you put into it over the last two weeks, and on how many different days. Below that, Worth another look: what you got wrong in your last practice and the slides you said you did not have or asked about. Tap one and the viewer opens on that slide.
Progress is for looking: what you do with the lecture is in the cards. The other tab, Material, has the slides one below the other, so the lecture stays in view, and a search result opens it there, on the slide it found. On a narrow screen, this column drops below everything else.