Four Ways to Turn What You Have Into a Course

Not every student has a neat PDF from their lecturer. Some have a notebook. Some have a WhatsApp message a classmate forwarded at midnight. Some have nothing at all.

Flaevo used to want a file. Now there are four ways in, and they all end the same way: lessons you can read, then quiz yourself on, then revise with flashcards and Daily 3.

Open Study and tap Add a course.

The sheet also shows how many courses you have left on your plan, before you pick anything.

1. Upload a file

The big option at the top, and still the best one when you have it, because it is your lecturer's own words.

Slides, handouts and past notes all work: PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) and plain text. The older .doc and .ppt formats do not; in Word or PowerPoint, use Save As and pick the newer format first.

Flae reads the file and writes it up as proper notes, split into sessions. How that works, and why.

2. Snap your pages

For your notebook, a textbook you borrowed, or what the teacher wrote on the board.

Take a photo of each page, or pick them from your gallery, in the order you want to study them. Then tap Read.

Before Flaevo builds anything, it shows you what it read from every page. If a page came out blurry, you see it straight away and can Retake it, instead of finding out later that a whole section is missing.

A few things help:

• Lay the page flat, in good light, and fill the photo with it.
• One sharp page beats two blurry ones.
• Handwriting works. Neater handwriting works better.

How many photos: Free reads up to 3 photos per course and 5 a day. Pro reads 10 per course and 40 a day, and Max 20 per course and 100 a day. The 7-day trial counts as Pro.

3. Paste your notes

For text that only exists in a chat. Long-press in the box, tap Paste, give the course a name, and tap Build my course.

When your notes are short: Flae adds

Pasted notes and a single photo are often short. A few lines on demand and supply do not make much of a lesson on their own.

So when what you give her is short, Flae is allowed to explain around it: a clearer definition, an example, a step your notes skipped. Everything she adds sits in its own box labelled Flae adds. Everything outside those boxes came from your material.

That matters in an exam. If only your lecturer's notes count, read the Flae adds boxes as help, not as course content. Quizzes and flashcards are made from the whole lesson, additions included, so the session screen tells you before you start one.

4. Just a topic

No notes at all? Pick your class, a subject and a topic, and Flae writes the course from the official NaCCA syllabus for JHS and SHS.

It has its own post, because there is a lot to it.

Which one to use

• You have the lecturer's file: upload it. It is what you will be examined on.
• You have a notebook or a textbook: snap the pages.
• Someone sent the notes in a chat: paste them.
• You have nothing, and you are in JHS or SHS: just a topic.

You can mix them. Upload the handout for one course, snap your notebook for another, and start a third from the syllabus.

Getting it

All four are in the latest Flaevo. Update from the Play Store, or download the APK from flaevoapp.com.

Start with whichever course you are most behind in. Add it the quickest way you can, open the first session, and answer its questions.