User Guide

Everything you need to get the most from LectiGuide — from your first study guide to board preparation.

Contents

Getting Started Creating Your First Study Guide Audio Recordings Uploading Files Clinical Practice Guidelines & Web Sources Study Tools TriPrep Practice Clinical Thread Rotation Brief Abbreviation Bank Offline Mode Downloading Your Study Guide Managing Sessions LectiGuide Tutor Using on Mobile Troubleshooting

Getting Started

LectiGuide turns your professor's lecture into a complete study guide — answered from the lecture audio, your uploaded slides, and your listed textbook. Every answer is specific to what your professor taught, not generic internet content.

💡 First time? You get 3 free study guides to start. No credit card required. Try it with a real lecture from your current course.
1

Create an account

Go to lectiguide.com and sign up with your email. Your account is free to start.

2

Enter your learning objectives

Paste your professor's learning objectives — from the syllabus, course portal, or lecture slides. These are the questions LectiGuide will answer.

3

Upload your lecture materials

Upload the lecture audio recording, course slides (PDF or PowerPoint), and any handouts. LectiGuide reads everything together.

4

Add your textbook

Enter your textbook title and author. LectiGuide will cross-reference every answer with your textbook for a complete three-source study guide.

5

Generate

Tap Generate. LectiGuide processes your materials and returns a complete study guide in 3–6 minutes depending on the number of objectives.


Creating Your First Study Guide

Learning Objectives

Paste your objectives exactly as your professor wrote them. LectiGuide handles all formats — numbered lists, bulleted lists, sub-objectives, and paragraph form. The more specific your objectives, the more specific your answers.

💡 You can also upload a PDF or Word document containing your objectives using the file upload button next to the objectives field.

Course Information

Adding your course name and a brief description helps LectiGuide contextualize answers to your specific program and curriculum. For example: "Respiratory Therapy 201 — Cardiopulmonary Pharmacology."

Textbook Reference

Enter your textbook title and author. You can also add specific chapters if you know which ones cover the material. If you are not sure of the chapter, leave it blank — LectiGuide will answer from the full textbook.

💡 Previously entered textbooks appear as suggestions as you type. Tap a suggestion to auto-fill the title and author.

Audio Recordings

Recording in LectiGuide

Use the built-in recorder to record lectures directly in the app. Tap the microphone button to start, tap again to stop. LectiGuide automatically saves a backup copy you can download.

⚠️ Long lectures: Stop and restart the recorder every 30–35 minutes. This keeps each recording under the processing limit and allows LectiGuide to transcribe segments as you go. Upload all segments together when generating.

Uploading Existing Recordings

You can upload recordings you already have — from Voice Memos on iPhone, a digital recorder, or any other source.

iPhone Voice Memos

iPhone Voice Memos (.m4a files) are fully supported. Open the Files app on your iPhone, find the recording, and upload it directly.

⚠️ Edited Voice Memos: If you edit a Voice Memo and save a copy, the exported file may not transcribe correctly. Use the original unedited recording for best results.

Multiple Recordings

If your lecture was recorded in multiple parts, upload all of them at once. LectiGuide transcribes them in order and combines the content. Each recording is labeled automatically — Recording 1, Recording 2, etc.


Uploading Course Materials

Supported File Types

⚠️ Old PowerPoint format (.ppt): Files in the legacy .ppt format cannot be read on mobile. Open the file in PowerPoint or Google Slides and export as PDF, then upload the PDF. This takes about 30 seconds on iPhone using Google Drive or OneDrive.
⚠️ Scanned PDFs: PDFs that are photos of pages (scanned documents) cannot have text extracted. LectiGuide will notify you and use your audio transcript instead. Ask your professor for a digital version if available.

Multiple Files

Select multiple files at once — all are read together as one combined source. Great for lectures with multiple handouts or a slide deck plus supplemental notes.


Study Tools

Every study guide comes with a full suite of study tools built from your specific session content:

📋 TriPrep

Three-round adaptive practice in board exam format — multiple choice, SATA, and clinical scenarios.

📊 ExamDNA

Analyzes your professor's question style and generates a mock exam that matches how they actually test.

🃏 Flashcards

Auto-generated flashcards from every key term and concept in your study guide.

🎧 Study Podcast

Converts your study guide into a podcast episode you can listen to during commutes or clinical rotations.

🧮 Formula Bank

Extracts every formula, equation, and calculation from your lecture and saves them for quick reference.

📝 Summary

Generates a concise clinical summary of the entire lecture for quick review before exams.


TriPrep — Adaptive Practice

TriPrep is LectiGuide's three-round adaptive practice system, designed to match the format of your licensing exam.

💡 Multi-session TriPrep: In your dashboard settings you can combine objectives from multiple study sessions — great for comprehensive exam prep that pulls from the whole semester.

Clinical Practice Guidelines & Web Sources

LectiGuide can fetch and use clinical practice guidelines, NIH publications, and any web-based required reading as a fourth source in your study guide — alongside your lecture, notes, and textbook.

1

Find your CPG URL

Navigate to the AARC CPG, NIH NHLBI guideline, or clinical resource your professor assigned. Copy the exact URL from your browser address bar.

2

Paste in the Clinical Reference card

On the upload screen, find the Clinical Practice Guidelines card below the textbook section. Paste your URL and tap Add URL. LectiGuide fetches the document automatically.

3

Generate — four sources appear

Your study guide now includes a fourth orange source block labeled with the document title — distinct from your lecture, notes, and textbook answers.

💡 Works best with AARC CPGs, NIH NHLBI guidelines, CDC resources, and major clinical journal pages. If a URL returns an error try the specific article page rather than an index page.

Clinical Thread

Clinical Thread connects concepts across all your saved sessions — showing you how a topic was taught from semester one through clinical rotations. It is the closest thing to seeing your entire education organized by concept rather than by course.

Keyword Search

Type any clinical concept — oxygen therapy, bronchodilators, ABG interpretation — and LectiGuide instantly searches every objective, key point, and answer across all your sessions. Results appear grouped by semester level in chronological order.

Deep Search

Tap Deep Search to find semantically related objectives even when the exact word does not appear. Your LectiGuide uses AI to find conceptual connections — searching "PEEP" might surface objectives about lung compliance and ventilator weaning that are clinically connected.

Clinical Concept Map

After running a search tap Clinical Map to generate an interactive concept map built from your sessions. Nodes represent clinical concepts colored by type — foundation, mechanism, clinical application, treatment, assessment. Tap any node to see the key points your professor taught about that concept.

💡 Use Clinical Thread before TriPrep comprehensive exams — search the concepts you feel least confident about and see exactly what your professors said across every semester.

Pre-Clinical Rotation Brief

Rotation Brief scans everything your professors taught across all your sessions and generates a clinical reference document tailored to your specific rotation. Walk into the ICU with a brief built from your own professors' teaching — not generic internet content.

Available Rotations

🏥 ICU / Critical Care

Ventilator modes, ARDS, hemodynamics, vasopressors, ABGs, weaning protocols

🚨 Emergency Department

Airway management, acute respiratory failure, emergency medications, intubation

🛏 Medical Floor

Oxygen devices, bronchodilators, patient education, COPD and asthma management

👶 Neonatal / NICU

Neonatal ventilation, surfactant, CPAP, RDS, BPD, neonatal pharmacology

🌬 Pulmonary / PFT Lab

Spirometry, lung volumes, DLCO, flow-volume loops, restrictive vs obstructive

❤ Cardiac / Cath Lab

Cardiac output, hemodynamic monitoring, cardiovascular pharmacology

🧒 Pediatric

Pediatric anatomy, dosing, croup, RSV, bronchiolitis, pediatric ventilation

🏠 Home Health

Home oxygen, home ventilators, patient education, COPD self-management

🌙 Sleep Lab

Polysomnography, CPAP titration, AHI, sleep staging, PAP therapy

🚶 Pulmonary Rehab

6-minute walk test, Borg scale, breathing retraining, energy conservation

The brief is organized into six sections: Key Clinical Concepts, Critical Values, Key Medications, Equipment and Procedures, Assessment Priorities, and Need to Know. Download as a PDF to carry into your rotation.

⚠ The Rotation Brief only includes content from topics you have studied. Generate study guides for relevant courses before generating a brief for best results.

Abbreviation Bank

The Abbreviation Bank is a searchable reference of 120+ clinical abbreviations organized by category — General, Respiratory, Nursing, Hemodynamics, Labs, Pharmacology, and Clinical. Your abbreviations are automatically injected into every study guide generation so LectiGuide understands your professor's shorthand.

You can add your own custom abbreviations with a category tag. Custom abbreviations are saved to your account and persist across all sessions.

💡 Pay attention to QID (four times daily) vs QOD (every other day) — these are common mix-ups on licensing exams. Both are pre-loaded in the bank.

Offline Mode

LectiGuide automatically caches your 15 most recent study guides to your device. If you lose internet connectivity your sessions remain fully readable — objectives, answers, key points, and need-to-knows are all available offline.

Important: Offline mode only works if you stay on the page after losing connectivity. Closing the app or refreshing the page while offline requires an internet connection to sign back in. Open LectiGuide before boarding a plane or entering a no-signal area.

How to use offline

  1. Open LectiGuide while connected to WiFi or cellular
  2. Generate or review your study guides — they cache automatically
  3. When you lose connectivity the ⚡ Offline badge appears in the top navigation
  4. Your 15 most recent sessions load from the local cache
  5. All study tools — TriPrep, Flashcards, Key Terms, Formula Bank — work offline
💡 Generating new study guides and syncing data always requires an internet connection. Offline mode is for studying from previously generated guides.

Downloading Your Study Guide

Tap the PDF button on your results screen to download a formatted study guide you can print or save. The PDF includes all three source answers (lecture, slides, textbook), need-to-knows, and key points for every objective.

💡 Your study guide is saved permanently in your account. You can access it any time — even after your course portal closes.

Managing Sessions

Every study guide you generate is saved as a session in your dashboard. Sessions persist indefinitely — your semester one pharmacology session is still accessible when you are preparing for boards two years later.


LectiGuide Tutor

LectiGuide Tutor is an AI chat assistant that answers questions using your session materials as context. Ask follow-up questions about anything in your study guide, explore related topics, or request alternative explanations.

The Tutor uses three tiers of sources in order:

  1. Your session materials — what your professor taught
  2. Your listed textbook — for additional depth
  3. General clinical knowledge — with a clear disclaimer
💡 Open the Tutor from any results screen. Your current session is automatically loaded as context.

Using LectiGuide on Mobile

Install on Your Home Screen

LectiGuide works like a native app on iPhone and Android — no App Store download required.

iPhone: Open lectiguide.com in Safari → tap the Share button (box with arrow) → tap Add to Home Screen → tap Add.

Android: Open lectiguide.com in Chrome → tap the three dots menu → tap Add to Home Screen → tap Add.

Recording on Mobile

The built-in recorder works on both iPhone and Android. For long lectures stop and restart every 30–35 minutes and upload the segments together.

Uploading Files on iPhone

Tap the upload zone → your iPhone Files app opens → navigate to iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, or any connected storage → select your files.


Troubleshooting

Audio not transcribing

PowerPoint not uploading on iPhone

Textbook answer shows "Not found"

Generation taking a long time

Book answers disappearing after PDF download

💡 Still having trouble? Email us at hello@lectiguide.com — we respond within one business day.