Common questions from educators and students.

A raw upload gives the AI a messy, flattened version of your material. Ellide prepares the course document for AI use first, which makes the content easier to work from and lets teachers shape the tutoring behavior instead of accepting a generic chatbot response.

The intended product experience is that students see a clean study document while the AI receives the guidance layer inside the prepared output. The visible material should stay readable.

You can push the interaction toward guided tutoring behavior, such as asking a question first, holding back the final answer, or pointing students to the relevant page or diagram. That does not make every model perfect, but it gives you more control than a raw upload does.

Syllabi, lecture slides, handouts, assigned readings, scanned PDFs, study guides, and course packets are the core fit. The best results come from material that already reflects how the class is taught.

Students can start with free guest credits. Ellide may create an anonymous guest session so credits, document usage, and current outputs can be tracked while that browser session remains available. Creating or linking an account is recommended when students want to keep guest work, use the dashboard reliably, return from another device, or manage account data.

Ellide stores uploaded files, pasted educational materials, generated outputs, and related metadata so users can process, retrieve, manage, and delete their documents. See the Privacy Policy for the current storage, processing, billing, sharing, and deletion details.