The AI tutor is a panel that sits beside the lesson you are reading. You type a question in your own words and Ekati AI answers, using the lesson in front of you as its source. It is there when you have read the same paragraph three times and it still has not clicked.

You will find it in two places, and they do exactly the same thing. On a computer, a round Ask Ekati AI button floats in the bottom corner of the lesson. On a phone, use the spark icon in the top bar. Tap either one and the panel opens next to the lesson.

The tutor is not a search engine. It knows which course and which lesson you are in, and it is built to explain that material rather than anything else.

It answers in the language you write in

Write your question in English and you get English. Write it in French and you get French. There is no setting to find and nothing to choose: the tutor matches you. This matters more than it sounds, because a learner who thinks in one language and then has to translate into another before asking gets a worse answer.

It stays inside your own course material

The panel knows the course and the lesson it was opened from, and it is built on that material. Ask about a step in the lesson and you get an explanation of that step, with the vocabulary the course actually uses.

If you ask something the lesson does not cover, the tutor says so instead of inventing a definition — and then offers to help anyway. And if the conversation drifts away from the lesson altogether, it will say so and point you back to what you are meant to be reading.

On a quiz or an exam, it gives a hint, not the answer

Open the tutor during a quiz or an exam lesson and its behaviour changes on purpose: instead of the solution it gives you a hint about the idea behind the question, plus one question that sends you back to the work. Those answers are marked Hint, not the answer — try it yourself first.

This is the whole point of having a tutor rather than a search box. On a reading lesson it explains the concept and then suggests one thing for you to try; on an assessed lesson it helps you think, not do the paper for you.

Send a photo of your exercise

Attach a photo of the page you are stuck on and the tutor explains what it sees. This is the fastest way through a question that depends on a diagram, a table or a worked example, and it saves you from retyping a long question badly.

Send a voice note

Send a short voice note when typing is the slow part. Voice notes use very little data, which matters on a shared or metered connection, and the tutor reads them the same way it reads a typed question. Both buttons sit at the bottom of the panel, next to the send button.

Which model answers you

Chat settings at the bottom of the panel let you switch the AI model if you want to. The default is chosen for you and is the sensible one to start with; switching is worth doing only if a particular model explains something better for you.

Every question spends a little AI credit. If your balance runs out, the tutor stops and offers the top-up. Your balance and how to refill it are on the AI credits page.