How to Use ALICE
ALICE is organized around a simple idea: you are not moving through a fixed sequence. You are navigating a knowledge graph, and the path is yours to shape. This guide describes what you will find and what you can do with it.
Finding Your Way Around
When you log in, you arrive at your home page. Everything in ALICE is reachable from here.
ALICE
├── Courses your enrolled courses
├── About what ALICE is and how it was built
└── [your name] your profile and preferences
Courses
A course in ALICE is not a linear sequence. It is a network of lessons, each connected to others by conceptual distance. Your starting point and your capstone shape which connections are most relevant to you -- but you are never restricted to a single path.
Courses
└── [Course Name]
├── Map visual graph of all lessons and their connections
├── Syllabus your current recommended path, based on your capstone
└── Lessons
└── [Lesson]
├── Content the core text of the lesson
├── PDF supplementary readings (there may be several)
├── Video supplementary videos (there may be several)
├── AI Agent a personalized agent trained on this lesson
└── Homework assignments tied to this lesson
The Map shows the full knowledge graph of the course. Lessons you have visited appear differently from those you have not. You can navigate directly to any lesson from the map at any time -- there is no lock on content you have not yet reached in sequence.
The Syllabus is a suggested order derived from your selected capstone. Changing your capstone changes the syllabus. Two students in the same course may have entirely different syllabi.
The AI Agent on each lesson is not a generic assistant. It is trained on the specific content of that lesson and contextualized by your interaction history with the course. It will engage with what you have already encountered, not just what is on the current page.
Homework submissions are stored with your learning history. Feedback you receive is grounded in the specific lesson and your prior work, not a generic rubric.
Your Learning History
ALICE remembers every lesson you have visited, in what order, and when. This history is not just a record -- it shapes what the AI agent knows about you and informs the feedback you receive on assignments. You can return to any lesson at any time. Nothing expires.
Collaborators and Guests
If you hold the appropriate permissions, you can share specific lessons with collaborators outside the course, or invite guests to access content without a full account. These features appear in the navigation when they are available to you.
Languages
ALICE is multilingual. You can switch your display language at any time using the menu in the top navigation bar. Course content is available in all languages for which translations have been provided.
A Note on How to Read This Platform
In most educational systems, progress means moving forward and not looking back. In ALICE, progress means building a denser, more connected understanding of the knowledge graph. A lesson you revisit two weeks later is not a step backward -- it is a different lexia than the one you read the first time, because you are a different reader.
Use the map. Follow unexpected connections. Let the syllabus be a suggestion, not a constraint.