A Guide to iKnow!
Home is your learning dashboard
Here you'll find your next course recommendation, a handy button to study all your ready items, a weekly study calendar, study progress information, study time, streaks, achievements, and all your courses.
Next Recommended
iKnow! recommends what items you should study next. You can see how many items ready for review you have in a course or across all your courses.
Progress
Track your progress on:
- Started Items
- Strong Items
- Mastered Items
Weekly Calendar
On your Weekly Calendar, you can see how much you studied each day of the week. Click on a day to get a detailed report of that day's activity. You can also click on the calendar icon (top right) to see the Monthly Calendar.
iKnow! Terms
[Items]
Items are the basic learning blocks. They can be either words or phrases, and their translation. Items can also have sample sentences.
"Ready Items" are items that are now ready for you to review.
"Strong Items" are items still fresh in your memory that you don't need to study yet.
[Memory Bank]
iKnow! presents items in a spaced rehearsal pattern optimized for efficient learning. The training sequence is based on proven principles in learning science. Our system presents you with what you need to learn just at the right moment for you.
The Memory Bank is the visualization of this process and your study progress. You can watch the progress of your items increase over time.
Study All allows you to study items across all your courses
Study All gives you a recommended mix of new and in progress items pulled from across all the courses that you're currently studying.
Study All shows you how many ready items you have in all your courses. Study All is the recommended method of reviewing content, but you can also study on a course by course basis if you prefer.
Studying
Only courses you're now studying will be recommended for study.
Saved
Save courses for future study. Add courses from Saved to Studying when you're ready to start them.
Reviewing
Completed courses are listed here and will come back for review. If you don't want to review them, simply turn review mode off on each course.
Weekly Study Target
How much time do you want to study each week? Set your target, and iKnow! will help you stay on track.
You can set your Weekly Study Target at the top of the Monthly Calendar page.
Courses
Browse Courses to find a course that interests you, or take our iKnow! Placement Test to find the best place to start learning.
iKnow! Placement
Our quick test will place you in a course in Japanese or Chinese that's right for your level.
Japanese Core
Learn hiragana, katakana, and the top 6,000 words in Japanese.
Simplified Chinese
Learn the words and characters necessary for reading Chinese newspapers in simplified characters.
Traditional Chinese
Learn the words and characters necessary for reading Chinese newspapers in traditional characters.
English Vocabulary
Learn SAT words and high-level erudite English vocabulary.
Track your progress and achievements in the Progress page
From the Home dropdown menu, select Progress to see your monthly progress across items and sentences.
Graphs here help you visualize how much you're learning with iKnow! and different colors indicate items studied, items mastered, and time studied.
Achievement Badges
Get achievement badges for weekly target progress, items mastered and hours studied. You can also share these achievements with your friends!