Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of information in classes, lectures, or courses? Organizing notes, reviewing material, and pulling out what's essential from long resources can be tough. But what if you had a smart assistant to help you along the way?
AI is rising as a powerful tool for students everywhere, from high school to grad school, helping you save time and boost your learning.
Recently, in a special livestream, we explored how the Tess AI platform can totally change the way you study. We showed real use cases, from organizing your class notes in real time to interacting with PDF documents in smart ways.
If you missed the livestream or want to catch the details again, check out the full video below:
A crucial point is the philosophy behind using AI in education. The goal isn’t for artificial intelligence to replace the student’s learning process or to do their work for them. On the contrary, AI should be seen as a supporting resource, a powerful tool to optimize tasks, organize information, and make it easier to access knowledge.
When we use AI to study, the focus still stays on the student’s development. The technology comes in as a helper, making it easier to process information quickly, spot key points, and organize study material in a more efficient way. Think of AI as your personal study buddy, always ready to help you structure your ideas and review your texts, but never to take away your chance to actually learn.
The Tess AI platform works perfectly in this context. With its many features, Tess lets you have quick interactions through chat and even create personalized AI assistants for specific tasks. The two main environments we can explore are:
AI Copilot: An intuitive chat interface where you can chat with different AI models (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to do quick tasks, like asking questions, generating initial summaries, or getting ideas. It's great for getting started and for one-off tasks.
AI Studio: Tess's custom AI agent creation environment. Here, you can build chats trained specifically for your needs, like an agent that always organizes your class notes in the same way or an assistant that reviews your academic texts following pre-defined criteria.
Let's check out the process of creating an AI agent focused on organizing class notes and working with study materials in PDF form. The idea is simple, but game-changing: instead of just typing random notes during a lecture or after watching a video, you can use AI to automatically structure, polish, and summarize all that information.
You can do this easily in the AI Copilot, but the real magic happens when you create a dedicated agent in AI Studio. That makes things consistent and personalizes the AI exactly to your study style.
If you want to replicate the process and create your own study assistant in Tess AI (in plans that allow agent creation, like Individual or higher), follow these steps:
Access AI Studio: In Tess's left menu, click on "AI Studio" and then on "Add New Agent". Give your agent a clear name, like "Note Assistant - [Subject Name]" or "Study Organizer".
Set the User Inputs: Think about the info your agent will need before starting. Click on "Add User Input". We created two:
Class Subject: A short text field for you to enter the main topic (Ex: "Introduction to Supply Chain"). This helps the AI understand the content. Mark as required.
Class PDF: An "Upload File" field so you can attach the class slide PDF, a book chapter, or other support material.
Add an AI Step (if you’ll use a PDF): If you included the PDF input and you want the AI to read the contents, you'll need an intermediate step. Click "Add AI Step", choose the category "Document Processing" and pick "Extract Full Text from PDF". In the "PDF" field, select the matching user input you created (Ex: {{pdf_da_aula}}). This turns the PDF file into text the AI can understand.
Create the Command (Prompt): This is your agent's "soul". In the "Command" box, you'll give detailed instructions to the AI. There's another Tess agent that can help you make a strong prompt: the Extraordinary Prompt Creation Chat.
Save and Test: Save your agent. Now, when you open it, it’ll first ask for the inputs you set up (subject and PDF). Fill in the info and start chatting or pasting your notes.
Here are some valuable tips to get the most out of AI in your studies:
Be Specific with Your Prompt: The clearer and more detailed your prompt is, the better the result. Say exactly what you expect, the format you want, and what the AI shouldn't do (like making up info or overusing topics).
Control Creativity: The "Creativity" (or "Temperature") setting is key. For factual tasks like summarizing notes or analyzing a base text, set the creativity lower (Accurate, Natural) so the AI sticks to the lesson's main points.
Tap into Your Knowledge Base: Besides PDFs, you can upload other files (TXT, audio transcripts) as a knowledge base for your agents, so they can fetch super specific info you provide.
Explore Tess Community: Lots of users share their agents publicly in the Tess community. It's totally worth searching for ready-made agents for education (language tutors, mind map makers, text checkers) before making your own from scratch.
Even though the focus here was on notes and PDF analysis, there are other cool possibilities for students:
Academic Writing Assistant: Create an agent trained on ABNT standards (or another style) to review your papers, suggest improvements for clarity, coherence, and language use, without writing it for you.
PDF Question Chatbot: An agent focused exclusively on answering questions about a specific document (book, article, etc.).
Language Tutor: AI agents that can help you practice conversation, correct grammar, expand your vocabulary, and explain rules of a new language.
Artificial intelligence, when used consciously and strategically, opens up a whole new horizon for students. Tools like Tess AI not only help you organize knowledge better, but also let you interact with it in a more dynamic and efficient way.
When you create custom agents for your needs, like the notes assistant we showed, you turn AI into a real ally in your learning process. It can help you save time on repetitive tasks, make information clearer, and even let you dive deeper into topics by asking questions and requesting specific summaries.
Remember: the key is to use AI as smart support, keeping you in charge of your own learning journey. Explore, experiment, and see how this technology can power up your studies!
