When you open a lesson you get a screen with two halves. On the left is the outline: every module, and under each module its lessons, with a tick on the ones you have finished. On the right is the lesson itself, opened full width so the text is not squeezed into a narrow column. On a phone the outline folds into the menu button at the top and the lesson takes the whole screen.

Every lesson ends the same way. You tap the button at the bottom, the lesson is marked complete, your progress fills a little more, and the next lesson opens. There is no separate “save” and no need to remember your place — coming back later takes you to whatever you had not finished.

It works on a slow connection and it does not need to be logged in again while you read. The progress you see at the top of the screen is the same figure that fills the circle on your course list, so the two never disagree.

Modules and lessons

The course is divided into modules, and each module holds its lessons. A module header shows how many of its lessons you have finished and what percentage that is, so you can see at a glance where a chapter stands. Tap a module header to fold it away, and tap it again to bring the lessons back.

Ticks, badges and locks

A lesson you have finished carries a tick. A lesson that is a quiz or an exam is labelled as one. A lesson that has to be passed before you can move on carries a pass mark, and a lesson that is still closed shows a small padlock — closed lessons open by themselves as you complete the one before, so you never have to work out what to unlock next.

On a computer, it is a permanent column

On a wide screen the outline stays in place on the left while you read on the right, so you can jump to any lesson without losing your place. The module holding the lesson you are reading opens automatically.

On a phone, it is one tap away

On a small screen the outline moves into the menu drawer that slides in from the left. Tap the menu button, tap the lesson, and the drawer closes and the lesson opens. The reading itself is unaffected — it still uses the full width of the screen.

Slideshow view

This is the default. The lesson fills the screen one slide at a time, with nothing else competing for attention — no outline, no buttons in the margin, no keyboard in the way. Move forward by tapping the next arrow, by swiping on a phone, or with the arrow keys on a keyboard. The counter at the top tells you which slide you are on out of how many.

List view

The other setting shows the lesson as an ordinary page: the module name above the title, the content in one continuous column, and any sub-topics listed underneath so you can dip into a part without leaving. This suits a lesson you are reading carefully, or one you want to come back to and revise.

The choice sticks

The two buttons sit together at the top of the screen, and the one you chose is filled in. Ekati remembers your choice, so you are not switching back and forth every lesson: set it once on the device you read on and it stays. Reading on a laptop and slideshow on a phone is a perfectly normal combination.

Sub-topics inside a lesson

A longer lesson is broken into sub-topics under the reader. They are not separate lessons and they do not affect your progress — they are simply smaller pieces of the same lesson, useful when one screen of text would be too much at once.

Marking a lesson complete

At the bottom of a lesson there is a button that completes it and moves you to the next one. On the last lesson of the course the same button reads as finishing instead, and you land back on the course page. Behind the button there is a Back link, so returning to the course never means hunting for the menu.

Quizzes and exams

A quiz or an exam is a lesson that asks questions, so you cannot simply skip past it. The lesson shows its questions on screen; you answer, then submit. Some exams also show a time limit and a pass mark, and some allow a limited number of attempts. Whatever the case, the lesson only counts as complete once you have submitted.

You will see your last score as soon as you submit, and whether it reached the pass mark. If it did not, a retry option appears so you can try again — and the score that counts for your progress is your best one, not your last attempt.

The end of the course

When the last lesson is finished, the course page says so and your progress circle is full. From there you can download a certificate if the course issues one, and you are asked to rate the course. That last step is optional and does not affect what you have earned.

Stuck on a question

The chat button at the top of the lesson screen opens a discussion attached to that lesson. Classmates can post there, and Ekati AI answers from the content of the lesson rather than from guesswork. On a quiz or an exam it gives hints instead of the answer, which is the point: you are still the one doing the work.