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title: "Learner guide"
description: "Find your courses, study offline, and make Quire comfortable to read."
image: "https://docs.quirelms.com/og.png"
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# Learner guide

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Use the address and sign-in details your organisation gave you. If a course or activity is missing, contact your teacher or administrator to check your enrolment and access.

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-dashboard.webp" alt="The dashboard greeting a learner by name, with a card for each of their courses." width="1032" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>The dashboard lists your courses and where you left off.</figcaption></figure>

Quire is where your courses live. Sign in at your organisation's address,
and your dashboard (`/dashboard`) shows what is due, what is new and where you
left off.

## Your courses <!--quire:your-courses-->

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-course.webp" alt="A course page with the course index on the left, ticks beside completed activities, and a progress bar on the right." width="1032" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>Inside a course: the index on the left, your progress on the right.</figcaption></figure>

- **My courses** (`/my/courses`) lists every course you are enrolled in, with
  your progress.
- Inside a course, the course index on the left (on the right in right to
  left languages) takes you to any section. Ticks show what you have
  completed.
- A course another organisation has shared with yours is listed here too, marked
  **Shared by** that organisation. You work through it as in any course, and your
  attempts and grades are kept by your own organisation.
- **Grades** (`/my/grades`) shows your marks and feedback once your teacher
  has released them.
- **Certificates** (`/my/certificates`) and **badges** (`/my/badges`) keep
  what you have earned, with a link anyone can use to check it.

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-grades.webp" alt="The My grades page, a table with one row per course and the course total and percentage." width="1032" height="640" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>My grades shows one row for each course.</figcaption></figure>

## The AI tutor <!--quire:the-ai-tutor-->

If your organisation offers the AI tutor, each course that has one has an **AI
tutor** page where you ask about the course and get answers from material you can
open, with its sources. Before your first question you accept your organisation's AI
use policy. Answers can be wrong, so check them against the course.

Teachers of the course can read tutor conversations. Every time one does, it is
recorded, and you see it: a conversation says that a member of staff has read it,
who, and when, and **AI tutor access log** (`/my/ai-privacy`, also linked from your
privacy page) lists every read. Conversations are kept for the period your
organisation sets and then deleted, and you can delete one yourself after the
course ends.

## Offline <!--quire:offline-->

You can download a course and study it without a connection, on a train or
anywhere the signal drops.

1. Open the course and choose **Download for offline**. Quire saves the
   course's pages and files on this device.
2. Study as usual. A banner tells you when you are offline.
3. Work you do offline, such as ticking items on a checklist, is kept on the
   device and sent when you are back online. `/offline` lists anything
   waiting, lets you send it again, and shows anything that could not be sent
   and why, with **Retry** and **Discard**.

To free space, choose **Remove from this device** at `/offline`. Signing out removes every
download for your organisation from the device.

On a phone or tablet you can also **install** Quire from the account menu, so
it opens like an app.

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr" data-count="multiple"><img src="/screenshots/learner-phone.webp" alt="Quire on a phone. On the left the dashboard with a menu button at the top left; on the right the navigation drawer open over the page." width="390" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><img src="/screenshots/learner-phone-menu.webp" alt="" width="390" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>On a phone the navigation opens from the menu button at the top left.</figcaption></figure>

## Making Quire comfortable <!--quire:making-quire-comfortable-->

Open **Preferences** from the account menu (`/account/preferences`).

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-account-menu.webp" alt="The account menu open under the learner name, listing Profile, Preferences, Security, Language and time zone, Offline courses and Sign out." width="520" height="470" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>The account menu is at the top right of every page.</figcaption></figure>

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-preferences.webp" alt="The Preferences page with colour scheme, language, time zone and accessibility settings." width="1032" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>Preferences: colour scheme, language, time zone and accessibility.</figcaption></figure>

- **Language**: choose from more than a hundred. Twenty are translated in full;
  the others translate the menus and main screens and show English elsewhere.
  Languages marked **machine translated** were translated automatically; the
  wording may be imperfect.
  Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu display right to left.
- **Text size**: Default, Large, Larger or Largest (up to one and a half
  times the usual size), everywhere in Quire without zooming the page.
- **Dyslexia-friendly font**: a typeface with distinct letter shapes and
  wider spacing.
- **Reduce motion**: replaces movement with fades, whatever your device is
  set to.
- **High contrast**: stronger text, borders and focus outlines.
- **Colour scheme**: light, dark, or following your device.
- **Time zone**: due dates and times are shown in this zone.

These follow you to every device you sign in on.

## Keyboard and screen readers <!--quire:keyboard-and-screen-readers-->

Every page starts with a **Skip to main content** link, and the main areas are
marked as landmarks (navigation, main content, notifications) so a screen
reader can jump between them. Everything you can do with a mouse you can do
with a keyboard; press `Tab` to move and `Enter` to act.

## Glossary links <!--quire:glossary-links-->

If a course has a glossary, a term it defines can be a link wherever the course text
mentions it, in lessons, forum posts, quiz questions and summaries. Follow it to the
definition.

## Your data <!--quire:your-data-->

<figure class="quire-shot" lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="/screenshots/learner-privacy.webp" alt="The Your privacy page, listing each purpose a person can allow or switch off." width="1032" height="760" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>Your privacy: choose what you allow, and ask about your data.</figcaption></figure>

Your organisation decides what Quire keeps about you and for how long, and
its privacy policy is linked at the foot of every page. You can also act on your
own data at `/account/privacy`:

- **What you allow**: switch off purposes such as analytics, marketing and AI
  features. Switching one off stops it from then on and does not undo what was done
  while it was on. A learner under the age of consent has these off until a guardian
  agrees.
- **Hide me from the directory**: your name and profile are not shown in people lists
  and search to anyone who does not teach or administer you.
- **Ask about your data**: request a copy of your data, a portable copy, a
  correction, or deletion of your account. Quire emails you a link to confirm the
  request, and nothing happens until you open it. Your organisation's privacy officer
  carries it out, and the page lists each request with its state and due date. A
  deletion waits 24 hours after you confirm, and you can withdraw it until then.
  Records the organisation must keep, such as grades and certificates, stay but no
  longer name you.
- **Who received your records**: every time your education record was given to
  someone outside the organisation, and why.
- **AI tutor conversations**: who has read them, from the link on the same page.

Source: https://docs.quirelms.com/learner/index.mdx