Help & Guide

How Cortex works

Cortex turns real expertise into playable, grounded courses. Pick your path below — every guide is step-by-step, with screenshots.

Start here

Cortex has two sides that meet in the middle.

Learners discover a course, enroll for free, and move through short activities — readings, videos, quizzes, flashcards and more — with a live coach a click away.

Authors & admins build a trusted knowledge base from their own documents, then let AI compose a full course from a one-line idea — grounded entirely in that knowledge, and always reviewed by a human before it goes live.

The one idea that matters

Everything the AI writes is grounded in knowledge you uploaded and vetted. The model restructures and explains your material — it does not invent facts. That is what makes a Cortex course trustworthy.

Guides

Taking a course

Discover, enroll, and move through activities. Progress, previews, and the live voice coach.

Authoring courses

Build knowledge systems, compose a course with AI, and shape every activity in the builder.

Administering Cortex

Access & permissions, publishing, editable AI prompts, and the grounded coach.

Architecture — how & why

The systematic tour: grounding, pedagogy, the course model, performance, and the platform it rides on.

Key ideas in 30 seconds

Knowledge systems — buckets of vetted, single-idea “nano-lessons” distilled from your documents. They are what the AI is allowed to draw from.
AI Compose — a wizard that goes idea → knowledge → teaching approach → outline → full course, with a human checkpoint at every step.
8 activity types — reading, video, embed, quiz, download, flashcards, matching, sequencing.
Grounded coaches — a text coach for authors and a live voice coach for learners, both answering only from your knowledge.

Cortex