Plato gives you quick, module-specific support inside your university learning environment. You can use it to ask questions about your course, review sources, create revision materials and come back to earlier chats when you need them.
What you can use Plato for
You can use Plato to:
- ask questions about course content
- inspect the sources used in an answer
- generate flashcards and practice questions
- answer generated questions and receive feedback
- save revision materials for later
- revisit earlier chats
Your chats and your data
Your chats are your own. Module leaders and teaching staff cannot read your individual conversations with Plato, and there is no way for them to look up what a named student has asked.
What staff do see is cohort-level analytics for their module: common questions across the whole group, which course materials Plato referenced most, and overall patterns of use. These are aggregated across everyone on the module and are not linked back to individuals. The purpose is to help staff spot where a topic needs clearer explanation, not to monitor you.
Your chats are saved to your own account so that you can come back to them, and so your revision materials stay available.
A good first workflow
Start by opening Plato in the relevant module and asking a specific question. Once you receive a response, you can check the sources for further detail and, if useful, ask Plato to generate revision materials from the same topic.
Where to go next
- Need help phrasing questions? Read Ask Questions
- Want to check an answer? Read Check Sources
- Ready to revise? Read Generate Revision Materials