Our approach
We create tools, courses and communities that equip students with skills, empower them with knowledge and encourage them to build confidence.
We unlock student potential by identifying and streamlining the points of unnecessary friction in the learning process, but crucially keep the points of productive friction necessary for students to engage, retain, and learn.
Equip learners to build skills
Our products increase the knowledge, skills, and confidence that learners need to become self-sufficient, engaged and effective throughout their education journey.
Unlock learner potential across campus
The barriers faced by all learners can be a real source of frustration. Provide your learners with the tools and courses to overcome academic stress, improve grades, and achieve genuine progress.
Support learners with specific needs
Genio Notes offers everything you need to fulfill your department’s note taking accommodation needs and set your learners up for success.
LXD research
Genio Notes demonstrated statistically significant impact across all target areas:
- Dropout prevention
Students showed a significant reduction in dropout intentions, declining from 7% to 5% (p = .01), directly addressing institutional retention challenges.
- Academic performance
GPA increased significantly from 3.34 to 3.46 (p < .001, Cohen's d = .14), with the strongest effects among students creating comprehensive recordings.
- Student engagement
High-usage students (used the Genio Notes platform >50 per semester) exhibited significantly greater academic engagement compared to low-usage students (p < .05, d= .16).
- Stress reduction
Student survey findings indicated that Genio Notes positively influenced their mental health, with reductions in academic stress levels; particularly among New Majority students juggling multiple responsibilities, and students with learning accommodations.
Case study: Volunteer State Community College
- Improved retention by 11% - students utilizing Genio Notes achieved an 88% retention rate from Fall to Spring, compared to 77% for students who didn’t use Genio Notes
- Genio Notes saved 28 students from dropping out
- 88% experienced less stress because of Genio Notes
- 88% believed Genio Notes has improved their study skills
- Volunteer State Community College successfully demonstrated Genio Notes' impact, securing long term funding via the Student Tech Fee.
Learner Impact Report 2025
Our 2025 Learner Impact Report explores how Genio Notes empowers students to thrive, drawing from data from hundreds of students across the United States. Key findings include:
- 45% of students improved their GPA after using Genio Notes
- 87% find learning less stressful
- 95% believe their learning skills have improved
Genio Notes' learning principles
Using Genio Notes , students can take charge of their studies by combining manual tasks with intentional automation, minimizing the waste in learning while ensuring proactive participation in the process.
The result? Increased confidence, better grades, and learning skills that last far beyond graduation.
Mind
Learning is personal, and it's a cognitive process
We all have different brains, with different strengths and weaknesses. Understanding yours is one of the most important steps in becoming an effective learner.
Your memory, attention, and ways of processing information are shaped by both biology and experience — and by your current state.
Fatigue, stress, anxiety, or other life factors can reduce working memory capacity, make it harder to concentrate, and slow processing.
Knowing when you learn best, and getting support when those factors are in play, can make a big difference.
Everyone faces learning bottlenecks — moments where something holds you back. It might be a gap in your knowledge, a missing skill, or the absence of the right tool. Identifying and addressing these can lead to huge leaps forward.
Learning works best when you use strategies that align with how your brain operates: break ideas into manageable parts, connect them visually, practise retrieving them, and space out your study.
Knowledge is a foundation — the more you know, the more deeply you can think, analyse, and create. Technology can help you find and adapt strategies that fit you — tracking progress, reducing overload, and making the process more efficient.
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Heart
Confidence, agency, and enjoyment build independent learners
Believing you can learn makes you far more likely to start, persist, and succeed.
Confidence grows when you see progress, get feedback, and feel safe to make mistakes.
Agency means you decide what matters and how to approach it — and that ownership fuels growth.
Curiosity is a powerful source of motivation; it sparks when you notice a gap in your knowledge and want to close it.
Positive emotions sustain effort, and play in learning can make challenges feel more like exploration than assessment.
Learning alongside others makes it stronger, as social interaction brings energy and new perspectives.
Technology can give you more control — adapting pace, removing friction, and connecting you with people and resources that make learning more meaningful.
Action
Learning is a process, and it requires output
We live in a world of passive consumption, but learning sticks when you engage with it. Even small actions count — like highlighting a key point, jotting a note, or marking something for review — because you’ve processed the material in your own way.
The more interactive the activity — summarising, mapping, teaching, or testing yourself — the deeper the learning.
Collaboration and social learning enhance output by providing feedback, new angles, and motivation. Feedback at every stage helps you focus, improve, and move faster.
Learning happens over time, so follow the process: capture, organise, refine, and apply. Just-in-time learning, using the right resource at the moment of need, can make knowledge more relevant and memorable.
Technology can connect the steps, remove wasted effort, and make it easier to create, adapt, and share your work.
Making output personal — something you’ve built yourself — can increase pride, ownership, and the motivation to keep going.
The Confident Notetaker's Masterclass
Improve the academic preparedness of your students with our on-demand note taking course. It is agnostic to Genio and teaches important foundational techniques.
- 84% of pre-release testers said their confidence in note taking increased after completing the course.
- 94% of students who tested the course learned something new.
- 51% more students during the pre-launch testing reported clearer note taking strategies after completing the course.
Available to all Genio Notes users.
Accessibility and flexibility
Genio Notes helps you meet ADA compliance for a lower cost and less admin time.
But it’s more than just a checkbox. This tool really works. Genio Notes makes advanced learning support available to everyone, eliminating barriers related to disability, academic preparedness, or time constraints.
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The Missing 65%
65% students who have a reported disability don't inform their institution, and so don't benefit from accommodations that they could have access to.
Creating inclusive learning for all
It has been my career goal to ensure everything is as universally accessible as possible to ALL students and this gets me one step closer to achieving that monumental goal - Pamela Farron, Berkshire Community College
Credentials and awards
We're passionate about security and recognize the importance of being transparent about safeguarding your data. That's why we're trusted by over 900 Higher Education institutions.
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Ethical use of AI and data
We’re careful about how we use AI in our products, that’s why:
- We don't sell or rent user data
- We don't allow third parties to train their AI models on Genio Notes data
- We don't automatically record, transcribe, summarize, or generate quizzes for users, users must choose to take these actions.
Moreover, we think very carefully about how we leverage AI in our product to ensure it is additive to the learning process. Rather than attempting to automate everything the learner does, Genio Notes is selective about the steps it offloads to AI, and the steps we ensure the student must still do themselves.
We use AI to remove unproductive friction, such as searching through long recordings or transcripts, but retain the productive friction, like the process of synthesizing notes.
Proactive participation
Effective learning begins with proactive participation and a student’s intentional actions in their learning process. That means going beyond passive listening in class, to a situation where, as material is presented, students are actively doing something with the knowledge. This proactive participation serves as a crucial scaffold for active engagement.
With Genio Notes, students are constructing their own learning paths with captured and organized content. Think of it like a high-tech workbench equipped with specialized tools (e.g., a precise saw, a powerful drill, an organized set of blueprints). The workbench and tools don't build the project for the student, but they enable the student to actively cut, shape, and assemble components during the building process. The student still has to perform the actions, but Genio Notes provides the means to do so effectively.
Innovation through experimentation
Through an iterative design process based on research with real students, we know our product is solving real problems for learners and educators.
We gather feedback through our 'Genio Insiders' research panel and undertake prototype testing to gather feedback from real students to shape our features. Learners can also opt in to Feature Preview, allowing them to use the beta version of new features to help us gather feedback.
This ensures we develop with consideration, making practical trade offs to guarantee focussed technological applications.
Learning science baked in
Genio Notes goes beyond traditional note taking to leverage the power of how we learn. Built on learning science principles, Genio Notes minimizes the strain on working memory, allowing students to focus on actively engaging in the lecture.
Genio Notes' approach includes Dual Coding theory by allowing students to capture information through both audio recordings and visual elements including images and Scribbles.
Powered by Multimedia Learning principles, which show that combining these elements reduces cognitive load and boosts memory, this comprehensive approach maximizes knowledge retention, making Genio Notes a powerful study tool for academic success.
Training
- Training webinars to get students set up and using Genio Notes
- Skills Portal resource is a hub full of bite-size training videos on how to use Genio Notes
- Study skills resources for your students
- The Genio Admin Guide
Marketing support
- Printable posters and leaflets that can be distributed throughout your campus
- Email and social media templates
- Additional resources and support for your Marketing team as they become available
Administrative support
- Onboarding and training calls with admins and key stakeholders
- Administrator specific webinars hosted by the Genio Team
Dashboards and reports
- Get utilization insight reports on how students are using Genio Notes
- Work with your Customer Success Manager to align Genio Notes to your institution's goals
IT support from Genio
- Single Sign On setup that will allow students to access Genio Notes using their institution email address without the need to be sent an invitation from an admin, saving time
- Ability to segment departments and conduct bulk actions like invitations if required by your institution
Working together with faculty
- Faculty Workshops on request with your Customer Success Manager where we will overview Genio Notes and answer Faculty questions
- Faculty information webpage with answers to FAQs
- Genio Notes' AI information page explains our position and responsibility surrounding AI
- 6 common questions asked by Faculty about Genio Notes, answered
See what's possible
With our free ROI calculator, see how much Genio Notes could save your department and institution per year.
