What is Knowt?
Knowt is a personalized learning platform that uses AI to turn notes, PDFs, videos, and presentations into flashcards, study guides, and practice tests. Students upload their materials and get ready-to-use study content in seconds. The platform addresses the time students lose creating study materials by hand. Knowt covers every step of exam prep, from generating flashcards to running full-length mock exams. A spaced repetition algorithm helps move material into long-term memory. Voice tutoring lets students get quizzed out loud or listen to AI-generated podcasts on any topic. Dedicated exam hubs cover AP, IB, GCSE, and A-Level content. A mobile app syncs with the web version, so studying continues on any device.
For teachers, Knowt generates assessments, lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets, and classroom activities from uploaded files. Monitored AI chats let teachers set up 1:1 tutors, oral assessments, and debate scenarios. Schools and districts can replace multiple separate tools with a single platform license.
Features & Benefits
Study Tools
- AI Flashcard Maker: Generate flashcard sets from any uploaded note, PDF, video, or audio file. Includes spaced repetition scheduling and card sorting to reinforce long-term retention.
- Math solver (mobile app): Take picture of homework and get answers by the AI for any math problem.
- AI Summarizer: Upload PDFs, videos, PowerPoints, spreadsheets, or live lecture recordings and get structured notes and flashcards instantly.
- Quiz Maker: Study flashcards through multiple choice, true or false, fill-in-the-blank, and written formats with unlimited rounds.
- Homework help: get step-by-step solutions and explanation by the AI homework helper.
- Practice Test Generator: Build full practice tests from any uploaded note, PDF, or video file.
- AI note taker: Record your lectures and get organized notes instantly.
- Voice Tutoring: Get quizzed out loud by an AI tutor or listen to an AI-generated podcast on any uploaded topic.
- Exam Hubs: Access curated study guides, flashcards, and practice tests for AP, IB, GCSE, and A-Level exams.
- Free-Response Room: Practice free-response questions for standardized exams, including an AP score calculator.
- Community Resources: Browse millions of student-created flashcard sets, notes, and study guides across subjects.
Assessment & Grading
- AI Assessment Creator: Generate auto-graded quizzes, full-length mock exams, and performance tasks from any uploaded file.
- Math Assessment Mode: Accept student answers via an integrated whiteboard for formal math evaluations.
- AI Grader: Score short answers, essays, and chat assignments with suggested grades and editable, standards-aligned comments.
- Live Games: Run uploaded content as live classroom games with multiple game formats, including imported Kahoot and Wayground content.
- Monitored AI Chat: Set up 1:1 AI tutors, conversational assessments, oral evaluations, and subject-specific chat partners for students.
Content Creation
- Lesson Plan Generator: Create structured lesson plans, substitute plans, and course syllabi from any topic or learning objective.
- AI Generators: Produce teaching and study content including worksheets, reading texts, decodable passages, math word problems, spiral review sets, science lab outlines, debate scenarios, discussion prompts, writing prompts, vocabulary lists, presentations, songs, and ice breakers.
Feedback & Communication
- AI Feedback Tools: Generate rubrics, writing feedback, report card comments, recommendation letters, IEP drafts, behavior intervention plans, class newsletters, PLC agendas, and professional emails from any input or criteria.
Classroom & Workflow Management
- Class Management: Create and join classes to organize students and distribute content.
- Content Import: Bring in existing sets and activities from Quizlet, Wayground, Kahoot, and YouTube via a Chrome extension.
Analytics & Privacy
- Analytics Dashboard: View activity, trends, and performance data across students, teachers, school sites, or districts.
- Student Data Privacy: Sign district Data Privacy Agreements at no cost. Student accounts carry no ads and restrict external file sharing.
Real-World Applications
A high school student preparing for AP exams can upload a semester’s worth of lecture notes and get a full set of flashcards and a practice test within seconds. Spaced repetition then schedules those cards over the days before the exam. The AP Hub adds pre-made study guides and realistic practice FRQs written by students who already sat the exam. The personalized learning platform adjusts to what the student still needs to learn rather than cycling through material they already know.
A college student juggling multiple subjects can drop a three-hour lecture recording into Knowt and come back to organized notes and a quiz. Audio podcasts on the same material let them study during a commute. When a practice question reveals a gap, the AI tutor explains the concept directly from the uploaded content. That combination of input formats makes the platform useful across math, science, history, and foreign language courses.
A middle school teacher may use the platform to build differentiated reading passages at multiple grade levels from a single source text. The same file can become a live classroom game, a graded quiz, or a monitored chat where students debate historical figures. Auto-grading on short answers and essays cuts feedback time, while editable comments let the teacher adjust the tone before sharing results.
A district technology coordinator looking to cut software costs might consolidate several standalone tools into one school license. The platform covers interactive assessments, lesson planning, student study tools, and analytics in one place. Rostering through Clever or ClassLink reduces setup time, and the student privacy controls meet district compliance requirements without additional cost.
