Everything you need to know to get the most out of MasteryLoop HQ.
Take the Discover quiz first. A few quick questions, and you'll get a starting curriculum recommendation plus a first taste of how MasteryLoop works — no need to know exactly what you want to learn yet. Once you're comfortable, come back here anytime for the full walkthrough below.
Type in what you want to learn — a book, a topic, a passage, a manual, anything. Be as specific as you want: "the book of Acts" works, but "Acts chapters 1-5" or "the trial and death of Stephen in Acts 6-7" works too. The more specific you are, the more tightly focused your curriculum will be.
Cliff Notes gives you a fast overview — sections you can read through without gated questions. Good for a first pass or a refresher. Deep Study is the full experience: real comprehension checks after each concept, built to test why something matters, not just what it says. You can't skip ahead without engaging — that's intentional, it's what makes it stick.
Most people find Standard hits the right depth. Thorough goes further — longer explanations, more nuance, more source-comparison — and takes longer to generate. If you want to go deep on something like Scripture harmonization or word studies, Thorough is where that shines.
Each concept ends with a question. It's not a trivia question — it's asking you to explain the significance of what you just learned. You get feedback on your answer, including if you got the "what" right but missed the "why."
Miss a concept twice and you'll see "Still stuck? Get unstuck →". Arti first asks a few short questions, a sentence each, and you can leave one blank, to find where it actually broke down. Then you can ask for hints, one at a time, up to three. A hint nudges you; it never states the answer. When you're ready, Arti explains the why, and you get one more shot at the question.
You still have to clear the same bar to move on. Concepts you needed help with come back in your end-of-course review.
Anytime a concept leaves you wanting more, hit "Unpack this concept further." It'll split that concept into a few sub-parts and go deeper — this is how you can spend real time on a single verse or detail if it's rich enough to deserve it.
You can leave and come back anytime — your place is saved automatically. Jump back to earlier concepts anytime using the progress track or course outline.
Have a PDF, a manual, a document you want the curriculum built from directly? Upload it, and choose whether you want the curriculum to stick strictly to that document or use it as a foundation Arti can build on.
If MasteryLoop is helping you, you can share it with others. Tap the Referral button (top of the page, next to Account) to get your personal referral link. Send it to anyone — a friend, a study group, a coworker — and they can start using MasteryLoop too.
Connecting with your student: Open "My Students" → enter the email your student signs in with → choose a relationship (Guardian or Teacher) → Link Student. You'll see "Request sent — waiting for the student to approve," and their row will show their email with a "not yet approved" label until they act on it.
Nothing is shared yet. You won't see your student's name, curricula, or progress, and you can't assign them anything, until they approve. That's intentional — it's what keeps the connection consent-based.
Guardian vs. Teacher: when you send a request, you choose one of two relationships. Guardian gives you visibility into everything that student has ever generated. Teacher only shows you the specific work you've assigned them — nothing else they've built on their own. Pick whichever matches how much you actually need to see.
These are separate permissions. If you're already an approved Teacher and later request Guardian access to the same student, that's a brand-new request they have to approve separately. Teacher access never silently upgrades to Guardian access.
After you send a request: a pending request appears in your student's "Required → Link requests" area, and they'll get an email about it. If they approve, their name replaces the email in your list, the "not yet approved" label disappears, and you can see their work and assign them things. If they decline, the request disappears from both sides — and you can send a new one any time, since declining doesn't block you permanently.
Assigning work: Pick a subject and a depth — Cliff Notes or Deep Study — and assign it. The student still picks their own level and goal when they sit down to do it; you're choosing what and how deep, not the whole setup. A fuller "set everything for them" mode is something we're exploring, especially for co-ops and classroom use.
More than one student: link — and get approved by — as many as you like, and assign work to each individually from My Students.
If your student doesn't have their own email: most providers (Gmail, Outlook, and most major ones) support a "+alias" trick. If your email is you@gmail.com, sign your student up as you+studentname@gmail.com. Mail still lands in your inbox, but the app treats it as a fully separate account and login — just insert a + and a name before the @.
Unlinking a student: not currently supported — once a student is linked, there's no way to remove the link yet.
If someone asks to link to your account: a request will appear under "Required → Link requests", and you'll usually get an email too. Nothing is shared with them yet — they get zero access until you act. Open "Required" in the sidebar and you'll see who's asking, their email, and the role they want (Guardian sees all your work; Teacher only sees what they assign you). Approve to grant access, or Decline to turn it down. Declining removes the request from both sides; they can ask again later.
Approving one role doesn't approve the others. If someone already has Teacher access and later asks for Guardian access, that's a brand-new request you approve separately.
Anything a parent or guardian assigns you shows up in your "Required" list. Starting one pre-fills the subject for you — you still choose your own level and goal, same as building anything on your own.
Guardians only ever see whether an assignment is pending or completed — not your individual answers or comprehension check results. It's accountability, not surveillance.