Using Thinkverse

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A problem screen has two halves: the whiteboard on the left, the tutor chat on the right.

The whiteboard is the point

Work the problem on the whiteboard — draw, write, type, drop in a photo of paper work with the Image tool (camera or upload). The tutor sees what's on your whiteboard, so showing your steps gets you far better help than just typing "I don't get it." When you've made a mistake, the tutor can draw right on your board — it circles the exact spot to look at again.

Put your answer in the answer box at the bottom, and submit as many times as you like.

Talking to the tutor

Type, or press the mic and say it. The quick buttons above the chat are the moves you'll use most:

• ✨ Check my work
• Help me start
• Can we solve it together?
• Can I get a hint?

The tutor can also talk back. When you start a session you choose "I'll read it myself" or "Always read to me" — and you can flip that any time in the chat settings. If you can't hear it on an iPad, tap the tutor's video; Safari starts it muted.

In your language

The 🌍 button (in the chat and on the whiteboard toolbar) switches the conversation into any of 100+ languages, any time.

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The tutor gives increasingly explicit hints, not answers. First it points your attention at the right spot; if that's not enough, it asks you a smaller question; if you're still stuck, it explains the general rule or works a similar example with different numbers. What it will never do is state the final answer or a step you haven't reached yourself — asking directly doesn't work, and neither does asking repeatedly.

That's not the tutor being unhelpful. If it handed you answers, you'd finish the session and be no better at math than when you started — and it would notice you're fishing and stop getting more generous.

Asking for help is not cheating. Teachers are told to grade on finishing, not on getting everything right the first try. If you're stuck after two tries, the tutor will usually offer to break the problem into smaller steps with you — take it up on that.

Good things to ask:

• "Can you check my work?"
• "Why is this step wrong?"
• "Can you explain that a different way?"

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Yes. The tutor speaks over 100 languages, and you pick yours — it's a setting, not a guess:

• when you sign up ("Pick your language"),
• in Settings → Conversation Settings → Conversation Language,
• or mid-problem, from the 🌍 button in the chat or the whiteboard toolbar.

The whole conversation — the tutor's explanations, its voice, the interface — follows your choice. Do the math in the language you think in.

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You choose your tutor when you first sign up, and you can change everything later in Settings (bottom of the sidebar):

• Custom Avatars — pick the tutor's look. Each avatar comes with its own voice. Your teacher can add avatars for the class, so the list can grow.
• Conversation Settings (click to expand it) —
  • Tutor Personality: Patient guide, Funny mentor, Direct tutor, or Excited coach.
  • Conversation Language: any of 100+ languages.
  • Interests: tell it what you're into and it'll use that in examples.

None of this changes the math — just who's teaching it to you.