Student Mode vs Teacher Mode: which one is for you?
Lumo has two modes built around two very different jobs — revising to learn, and building materials to teach. Here's what each one does and how to pick.
Muhammad Yousuf with the Lumo Team
Co-Founder, Lumo AI 1 min read
Students and teachers use the same source material for opposite jobs. A student turns a lecture into something to revise from. A teacher turns it into something to teach with. Lumo has a mode for each.
Student Mode: revise to learn
Student Mode is about fast, grade-appropriate revision. You drop in a lecture, PDF, or video and get a full study kit — notes, flashcards, a quiz, a mind map, a study guide, and an audio overview — with the depth tuned to your level. The whole flow is built around active recall: not re-reading, but testing yourself until the material sticks.
Teacher Mode: from a source to a lesson
Teacher Mode is about building. From one strong source, you can produce a lesson plan, differentiated worksheets, a rubric, and auto-graded questions — then share them with a class using a join code. It turns the prep work that eats a teacher's evenings into a few minutes of review.
How to choose
- Studying for yourself? Student Mode. Optimize for recall and revision.
- Preparing to teach a group? Teacher Mode. Optimize for materials and differentiation.
- Both? Many people are both — a tutor revising a topic and building a worksheet for a student. You can switch as the job changes.
Same engine, same faithfulness to your source — two different jobs. Pick the mode that matches what you're trying to do today.
Try it free — start in Student Mode and explore from there.
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