Support Student Independence with Provided Study Notes

Access to Provided Study Notes can be controlled at an organisation or a group level, using 'Manage Features' in Genio Admin.

At the moment, there is not an option to toggle it on and off for individual students.

There are two key ways that we are encouraging good learning habits with this new features:

Avoiding Fluency Illusion

Fluency illusion happens when learners misjudge how well they have mastered or understood familiar topics. A common culprit is the passive reading of study material, as this builds familiarity, but not recall and understanding.

Our provided study notes are a structured starting point to studying, content to be actively engaged with and to develop on , as opposed to a finished product designed to be read over and over again.

Evidence-Based Note Taking
Notes are structured using evidence-based note taking techniques, including the Cornell method, encouraging active engagement with the material rather than passive reviewinf. This is supported by research on active recall and retrieval practice, which finds that reconstructing information from memory produces stronger long-term retention than re-reading alone.

The feature will be available to all learners using an institution licenses (providing it is switched on) but it will not be available on individual licenses. 

This is because we want the feature's availability and usage to be based on individual learner need, which requires admin controls. 

If you have an institution license, you will be able to switch the feature on and off for learners at your institution.