We just shipped seven new AI generators on iTutor — and unlike anything else in the planner so far, every one of them is built around a single design constraint: they only work if you've uploaded materials. Take away the textbook, and they break gracefully. Add the textbook, and they read it cover-to-cover so you don't have to.
This roundup walks through all seven, what each one is for, who benefits most, and how they fit together. There's a dedicated landing page at /features/study-tools if you want the full breakdown, and each tool also has its own deep-dive article linked below.
1. Study Guide
The big one. Upload a textbook, pick a topic, and get back a structured exam-ready review document — key concepts, formulas, worked examples, common mistakes, and exam-likely questions, all condensed into one printable pack. Choose brief / standard / comprehensive depth, optionally focus on specific chapters, export to PDF / Word / Markdown. Read the full Study Guide writeup →
2. Worked Solutions
For STEM courses where the textbook gives you "selected solutions in the back" and that's it. Worked Solutions extracts every problem from your uploaded material (or generates new ones in the textbook's style), then produces fully step-by-step solutions — narrative + math at every step, the final answer, and a "common pitfall" callout warning you about the mistake students usually make. There's even a "student version" PDF export with answers hidden, plus a CSV export for LMS gradebook import. Read more →
3. Chapter Summary Pack
The "I just uploaded a 500-page PDF, now what?" tool. Auto-detects chapter structure from your materials and produces uniform per-chapter summary cards — main ideas, key terms, critical quotes preserved with page references, comprehension questions, and an "if you only remember one thing" box. Cap the chapter count anywhere from 5 to 25. Print-friendly PDF with one chapter per page. Read more →
4. Glossary
For jargon-heavy courses (medicine, law, engineering, theology, computer science), the Glossary builds a searchable A-Z reference of every technical term in your corpus. Each entry has a contextual definition, the first-mention page, an example from the actual material, related terms (clickable cross-links), and Arabic/English translations. CSV export with UTF-8 BOM so Excel opens Arabic text correctly. Read more →
5. Concept Explainer
The "wait, I really don't get this" moment. Pick any concept from your materials and get a 6-tab deep dive: a 5-minute summary, a 15-minute deep explanation, an analogy, a worked example, common misconceptions (wrong/correct/why), and connections to other concepts in the same course. Configurable depth: quick / standard / deep. Generated on your phone in class, kept open while you walk to your next lecture. Read more →
6. Reading Guide
For humanities, theory, philosophy, and seminars — anywhere you have to read dense texts closely and the prof actually expects you to engage with them. Pick one specific uploaded material, and the Reading Guide produces pre-reading questions, key terms to watch for, section-by-section guided questions with persistent checkboxes, margin prompts in tinted callouts, and post-reading synthesis prompts. Designed to be filled out while you read. Read more →
7. Exam Prep Session
The night-before-finals tool. Reconstructs what a TA-led review session would look like for your materials. Three-pass generation: topic discovery + weighting, parallel topic expansion, time normalization to a target session length. Each topic gets key points, common pitfalls, 3+ practice questions with worked answers, and an "if you only remember one thing" box. Built-in client-side session timer (30 / 60 / 90 / 120 minutes) with persistence across reloads, a completed-topics tracker, and a printable cheat sheet. Read more →
How they fit together
The seven tools are designed to work as a workflow, not a list. A typical study cycle:
- Upload your textbook PDFs to a subject thread
- Generate a Chapter Summary Pack to grasp the structure
- Build a Glossary as a permanent reference you keep open in another tab
- Use the Study Guide for revision before each exam
- Practice with Worked Solutions (STEM) or Flashcards (vocabulary, included in the existing 16 tools)
- Hit the Concept Explainer when you get stuck mid-chapter
- Test readiness with the existing Quiz or Exam Simulator
- Final cram with the Exam Prep Session the night before
Why "material-first"?
The whole point is that these tools break when you don't have materials uploaded — by design. Generic ChatGPT will happily make up a study guide for any topic from its training data, but the answers won't trace back to your specific course, your specific professor's emphasis, or your specific edition of the textbook. iTutor's material-first tools refuse to invent, and ground every claim back to a specific chunk of your own uploaded content.
That's the difference between "an AI that knows about photosynthesis" and "an AI that knows about your Bio 101 textbook's chapter 6 on photosynthesis, including the diagram on page 142 and the worked example your prof referenced in lecture three."
Try them all free
Free tier includes a sample of every tool. Upload a PDF, pick a tool, and you'll have your first study artifact in under 60 seconds. itutor.study · See pricing