Study

• What's due, soonest first; exams with their rooms; who teaches it; how it's graded; and the rules for late work and extensions.
• Each fact says where it came from: a part of Canvas, or a file and its page. Anything Nirvaana worked out instead of read is marked “Inferred”, with what it was worked out from.
• “Busy weeks” are weeks where three or more things are due, or an exam and something else. They are always marked Inferred.
• If you connected Canvas with your calendar feed link, you'll see: Your calendar feed gives dates only. Add your syllabus to fill in the rest.

Nirvaana reads your syllabus for what it says about AI, quotes it, and follows the strictest reading:

• Your syllabus says AI help isn't allowed in this course, so Nirvaana shows the course facts and a study plan, and no lessons.
• Your syllabus allows AI help for some things and not others. Lessons here teach the ideas with their own examples, never your graded work.
• Your syllabus doesn't say how AI may be used. Ask your instructor. Until then, treat Nirvaana as an outside source.

When your syllabus asks you to say when you use AI, every lesson and study guide shows: Your syllabus asks you to say when you use AI. Nirvaana counts as an outside source.

The top of each class's Study page. Say what you want to learn in your own words and press “Make the lesson”. Nirvaana finds the pages in your class files that teach it, then writes you a lesson from them and opens it. It says which step it's on as it goes.

• If you already have a lesson on it, the page says so as you type, with a way to open it. You can still make a new one.
• If your class files don't teach it, the page says so and asks you to add the notes or slides that do. Nothing is made up.
• If it's too close to your graded work, the page says why and offers the lesson on the idea itself instead.
• “Ask a question” looks for the lesson you already have on a question, and never writes a new one.

One lesson for each idea, in the order your course teaches them. A lesson is written the first time you open it, then kept. Each has five parts:

• “Big idea”, “How to spot it”, a “Worked example” solved step by step, “Watch out”, and one “Your turn” problem.
• When every example written for an idea comes too close to your graded work, no lesson is shown for it. The page says: “This topic is too close to work you're graded on, so Nirvaana won't teach it as a lesson. Look at your class notes on it, ask about it in office hours, or ask Nirvaana about a related idea.”
• Before a practice problem is shown, it's worked again on its own, without its answer. If the two answers differ, it's written again; if they still differ, the lesson comes without one, and says so.
• The worked example opens a step at a time: “Show the first step”, then “Next step”, or “Show every step”. Math is set as math, and some lessons add a picture: a diagram, a plot, a table or a number line.
• Pick a choice or type your answer, and press “Check my answer”. “Show the hint” and “Show the solution” stay closed until you press them. For a language course, a sentence is checked against its target, and you're told what is off: an accent, a word's form, a word missing or extra, or the order.
• “Check yourself”: a few cards from the lesson. Say the answer to yourself, press “Turn the card”, then “I knew it” or “Not yet”.
• Press “Mark as understood” when it's clear. The top of each lesson shows where it sits in the class and how many lessons you've marked; the foot leads to the one before and the one after.
• Each lesson names the pages it was written from. Where you are in each lesson is kept, so you can stop and come back.

Nirvaana never works out or checks your graded assignments. If you ask about a graded problem, or paste one, it shows you the lesson on that idea instead, with its own example and a practice problem it can check. The same goes for the chat, when a class is in the conversation.

• “Your plan”: a plan from today to the due date, with breaks: the pages to read, the lessons to work, the practice, then the assignment itself. A suggestion, worked out from the due date. Move it around as you need.
• “One way to work every problem”. For probability: name the outcomes, count all of them, count the good ones.
• “Handing it in”, only as Canvas says. For Gradescope: one PDF, then mark the pages for each question. Otherwise: Canvas doesn't say how to hand this in. Check the assignment's page in Canvas.

Add PDFs, Word, PowerPoint or Excel files from this class's Files, or paste text. Lessons are written from what you add.

You can also forward course emails with attachments to this class's email address: they land in Files. If you're under 18, upload or paste instead.

Graded work is never used to teach. Nirvaana keeps it only so it never works those problems.

In the Mac app, you can sign in to Canvas in a window of the app instead of making a token: open Connections, then Canvas, then Sign in to Canvas in the app. What it reads (the syllabus, assignments, pages, modules and PDFs) comes into Add your course files, marked with where in Canvas it came from, for every class it keeps up to date. Sync now reads it again; Sign out of Canvas forgets the sign-in.

Nirvaana reads your courses with your own Canvas sign-in, on this Mac, and never changes anything in Canvas. Some schools don't allow tools like this; check your school's rules if you're unsure.

If you're under 18, Nirvaana reads Canvas only through your calendar feed, so the app doesn't offer this. Add your course files yourself instead.