Learning Workspace

The RoxWhy learning workspace is powered by RoxWhy. It combines tutoring, source-grounded study, writing support, visual explanations, notebooks, memory, and RoxBots in one place.

Core workspace areas

Chat

Use Chat for normal tutoring: explanations, examples, follow-up questions, and source-grounded answers from your knowledge bases.

Good for:

• "Explain this in plain English."
• "Give me an example and then ask me to try one."
• "Use my uploaded notes to answer this."

Deep Solve

Use Deep Solve when a question is hard enough to need planning, step-by-step reasoning, checking, or a more careful answer.

Good for:

• Multi-step maths or science problems.
• Reasoning through a programming issue.
• Breaking down an assignment question.
• Checking a solution path before moving on.

Quiz

Use Quiz to generate practice questions from a topic or knowledge base. Save useful questions in the Question Bank when you want to revisit them.

Good for:

• Quick recall checks.
• Exam revision.
• Finding weak spots.
• Turning notes into active practice.

Deep Research

Use Deep Research when you need a structured research path or a report-style answer. Keep it focused and check sources before relying on the result.

Good for:

• Comparing ideas.
• Building a reading plan.
• Summarising source material.
• Preparing research notes.

Visualize

Use Visualize when a diagram, chart, concept map, or visual explanation would make the topic easier to understand.

Good for:

• Processes and cycles.
• Timelines.
• Cause-and-effect relationships.
• Concept maps.
• Simple charts and diagrams.

Co-Writer

Use Co-Writer to turn rough material into writing you can review and revise.

Good for:

• Outlines.
• Drafts.
• Study guides.
• Summaries.
• Rewriting unclear notes.

Book Builder

Use Book Builder when a topic needs a structured learning path. It can organise a topic into chapters, examples, review prompts, quizzes, and notes.

Good for:

• A new subject area.
• Exam preparation.
• A reading list.
• Building a reusable study guide.

Knowledge bases

Knowledge bases hold the source material RoxWhy should use. Create separate knowledge bases for different subjects, exams, projects, or reading lists.

Use knowledge bases for:

• PDFs.
• Notes.
• Worksheets.
• Slides.
• Markdown or text files.
• Drafts and research notes.

Keep names clear, for example:

• Year 9 Biology - Term 2
• English Essay - Macbeth
• Algebra Revision
• Programming Project

RoxBots

RoxBots are reusable subject helpers. Each RoxBot can keep a role, instructions, memory, and source context for the subject it supports.

Use RoxBots when:

• You study the same subject every week.
• You need a consistent teaching style.
• You want a tutor connected to a knowledge base.
• You are preparing for an exam or project over multiple sessions.

Examples:

• Socratic maths tutor.
• Patient writing coach.
• Biology revision tutor.
• Programming project helper.
• Reading-list tutor.

Notebooks and Question Bank

Use notebooks to keep important records from chat, Co-Writer, Book Builder, or research sessions.

Use the Question Bank to revisit generated quiz questions, mistakes, and practice prompts.

Save:

• Summaries you want to revise.
• Questions you missed.
• Drafts or outlines you want to improve.
• Follow-up questions for class.
• Useful source-grounded explanations.

Memory

Memory helps RoxWhy keep track of study context across sessions. It can include a summary of topics studied, goals, preferences, and useful context. RoxBots can use memory to avoid starting from zero each time.

Memory is there to support continuity. Students should still check facts, calculations, and assignment-specific requirements.

AI tokens

AI-token usage depends on the mode, model, prompt length, source retrieval, and amount of work requested. Longer conversations, large documents, deep reasoning, research, writing, and visual workflows can use more tokens.

See AI Tokens and Top-Ups for the billing and support details.

Recommended first workflow

1. Create one knowledge base for the current subject.
2. Upload class notes or a short reading.
3. Ask Chat for a plain-language explanation.
4. Ask Quiz for practice questions.
5. Save mistakes or useful explanations to a notebook.
6. Create a RoxBot if this is a subject you will return to.
7. Check AI-token usage after a longer session.