Choose an AI Teaching Mode for Your Needs

Choose a Mode for Your Needs

Before choosing from the row of modes, think about where you got stuck. Perhaps one sentence makes no sense. Or it makes sense while you read, but you cannot recall it afterward. You might even know the answer and still struggle to explain your reasons. Those call for different kinds of help.

If a passage makes sense while you read it but you cannot recall it once you look away, try Active Recall. If it is unclear even with the text in front of you, ask in Q&A or work through a short passage with Guided Study.

Try one mode, see what the feedback tells you, and decide from there whether to keep practicing or ask for a different kind of help.

Teaching Modes at a Glance

Your situation	Choose	What you will do
A sentence, concept, or step is unclear	Q&A	Ask directly and add context if needed
You do not know where to start reading	Guided Study	Follow a sequence of surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing
You have read the material, but the relationships are confusing	Mind Map	Group and organize ideas into levels; explain or revise connections
You want to check what you remember without looking	Active Recall	Answer first, check your response, fill the gaps, and try again
You want short questions to reinforce key points	Flashcards	Answer one card at a time and read the feedback
You feel you understand, but cannot explain it clearly	Feynman Technique	Explain it to a beginner in your own words
You want to check whether a judgment has enough support	Socratic Method	State your judgment and reasons, then answer follow-up questions
You do not know what most needs practice now	Progress Check	Review the AI's assessment and provide another answer if needed

You can stay with one mode or use several. Either way, all eight focus on the current chapter. Switching changes the activity while keeping you in the current chapter.

Each lesson opens in general conversation. You can ask about the lesson, DeepDojo.AI, how a mode works, or another one-off topic and get a direct answer. There is no separate button for this default mode. For focused study or practice, choose a mode above the message field. Scroll sideways to see any buttons that do not fit.

General conversation can draw on saved conversations from the current lesson across its teaching modes. General Assistant and other lessons have separate histories. General conversation provides direct answers; its exchanges do not count toward flashcard progress, learning status assessments, or report requirements.

Mode buttons: one row; scroll sideways to see more
[Q&A] [Guided Study] [Flashcards] [General Assistant] [Feynman Technique] [Active Recall] [Socratic Method] [Mind Map] [Progress Check]
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Type a question or answer  [Tier icon] [Send] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

After you choose Flashcards, the message box looks like this:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Flashcards    Passed / Required    [× Exit]                │
│ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│ Type a question or answer  [Tier icon] [Send]              │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

When you select a mode, its icon, name, and any progress information replace the mode buttons. They appear above the message field in the white message box, separated from it by a thin gray line. Select × on the right to return to general conversation and choose another mode. Your saved conversations and learning progress remain available.

Compare Similar Modes

Q&A and Guided Study: Use Q&A for a specific question. Use Guided Study when you need help working through a tutorial passage. Q&A focuses on answering your questions; Guided Study guides you through reading and explaining the material back.

Active Recall and Flashcards: Both ask you to answer first. Active Recall stays with a topic, helps you fill gaps, and checks whether you can recall it again. Flashcards gives you a series of short questions, provides feedback on each card, and records flashcard progress.

Feynman Technique and Socratic Method: Use the Feynman Technique to check “Did I explain it clearly?” Use the Socratic Method to check “Do my reasons hold up?”

Progress Check and the Learning status panel: Progress Check is a conversation mode where you can ask the AI what needs more practice. The Learning status panel displays an assessment that updates automatically as you learn. The AI uses your answers to assess your understanding and asks for another short response when it needs more to go on.

Start and Switch Modes

If a mode has no conversation history, it shows an introduction, brief steps with icons, and an example. Selecting the mode opens this guide without sending a message. To begin, ask a question, send “Start,” or describe what you want to practice. Select About this mode if you would like the AI to explain how it works.

When you come back to a mode you have used in this chapter, you can pick up where the conversation left off. Say “Continue,” or explain what you need now. If a flashcard is still waiting for an answer, “Continue” brings back that question for you to answer.

The AI may suggest another mode; you control the change. If a concept in a flashcard is unclear, click × to exit, then choose Q&A. After clearing it up, use the same steps to return to Flashcards.

The General Assistant

You can ask one-off questions in general conversation. Choose General Assistant when you want a separate conversation for an email translation, a code discussion, or another request outside the lesson.

General Assistant keeps a separate conversation within the course, which you can continue across chapters. Exchanges in General Assistant and general conversation do not count toward chapter flashcard progress, learning status assessments, or report requirements. Ask about the tutorial in general conversation, or choose a teaching mode for focused practice.

For example, ask “What is the difference between evaporation and condensation?” in general conversation, or choose Q&A to explore it. Use General Assistant to keep an email translation in a separate thread.

Current mode → Click × → Mode buttons → [General Assistant]
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                                   Type your request → Send