How to Turn Your Lecture Slides Into Study Material with Flaevo

Lecture slides are where most of your marks live — and where most study time gets wasted. Re-reading a 60-slide deck feels like studying, but barely anything sticks. Flaevo's My Courses turns those same slides into material you actually learn from. Here's how.

The problem with studying straight from slides

Slides are made to support a lecture, not to study from. They're bullet points, half-thoughts and diagrams that made sense while someone talked over them. Reading them back later is passive, slow, and easy to zone out on. You need to turn them into something that makes you think.

Step 1: Upload your slides or PDF to My Courses

Open My Courses, create a course, and upload your lecture slides, a PDF, or your notes. Flaevo reads the material and turns it into focused study sessions built from your content — not a generic textbook version of the topic.

Tip: upload one lecture or chapter at a time. A single focused deck makes sharper sessions, quizzes and podcasts than a giant 300-page file.

Step 2: Study the session, then let Flae quiz you

Once your slides are in, work through the session and then ask Flae, your AI tutor, to quiz you on it. This flips slides from passive reading into active recall — the single most effective way to make material stick. Ask Flae to explain anything that didn't land, then test you again.

Step 3: Generate quizzes and flashcards from the deck

From the same material, generate:

• Quizzes and mock exams — exam-style questions drawn straight from your slides, on a timer.
• Flashcards — auto-built decks for fast recall reps.

Now your lecture isn't 60 slides to re-read; it's a set of questions you can actually practise.

Step 4: Let Smart Review keep it for exam day

Here's the part that matters at university, where Week 2's slides are still examinable in Week 14. Smart Review uses spaced repetition to bring each topic back right before you'd forget it, and anything you get wrong comes back more often. Upload your slides each week and, by exam time, your whole semester is already sitting in Flaevo — reviewed, not forgotten.

Step 5: Turn the deck into a podcast for the commute

Generate a Course Podcast from the session and Flae will teach the slides as a short audio lesson — with analogies and quick recall questions. Replay it offline on the way to campus. It's the easiest way to squeeze extra revision out of dead time.

From a pile of slides to a study system

The workflow is simple and it scales across every course:

1. Upload the lecture slides to My Courses.
2. Study the session; have Flae quiz you.
3. Practise with the generated quiz and flashcards.
4. Keep it with daily Smart Review.
5. Reinforce with a podcast on the go.

Do that after each lecture and you're never facing a wall of un-studied slides again. For the bigger university picture, see how university students study smarter with Flaevo.

Got a lecture deck open right now? Create a free Flaevo account, upload it to My Courses, and turn it into your first study session in minutes.