Install
Install the free AssisT Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to the toolbar.
How-To Videos
59 step-by-step guides for AssisT 1.0.0. Filter by condition to find what helps you learn.
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Welcome and Setup
Use the welcome page to pick your guides and build a short setup checklist.
Pop-up Theme
Switch the whole AssisT pop-up between its light and dark themes.
Discover Your Tools
Answer a few short questions about how you read, focus and see, and switch on the matching tools.
Help and Keyboard Shortcuts
Find every keyboard shortcut on the Help page and change any of them from the pop-up.
AI Setup: Browser
Run the AI tools on your own graphics card with a model downloaded once, with no account or key.
AI Setup: Local (Ollama)
Connect AssisT to Ollama so the AI tools run on your own computer.
AI Setup: Cloud API
Add your own AI provider key, stored on your machine and verified before any AI tool uses it.
Read Aloud
Have a paragraph, section or whole page read back to you, with the passage highlighted as it goes.
Word by Word
Highlight a single word at a time as Read Aloud speaks it, so your eyes always know where to look.
Reading Mode
Strip away navigation and side notes so only the article is left, and bring the page back with one click.
Dyslexia Mode
Try three colouring styles, Syllable Colours, Grammar Colours and Bionic Reading, that make words easier to follow.
Read from Images (OCR)
Scan a picture or scanned page and get the words back as real text you can copy or hear read aloud.
Maths Support
Hear equations read aloud, group long numbers, shade place values and use an on-page calculator.
Translate Page
Translate a page in place and revert to the original language with one click.
Text Stats
See a page's word count and reading time, with a full breakdown of words, sentences and paragraphs on demand.
Speech to Text
Turn your voice into text in any box on the page, with punctuation added automatically.
Lecture Companion and Voice Commands
Write live captions and notes as you listen to a lecture, and run AssisT by speaking.
Quick Actions
Highlight text to bring up a small toolbar for reading it aloud, looking up a word or adding a note.
Sticky Notes
Leave a note against a specific page and keep every note in one sidebar.
Authorship Shield
Keep a private, on-device history of how your writing grew, which you can copy as a report.
Citations: Save and Library
Save a source in one click from three places and keep them all in one library.
Citations: In-Text and Essay Check
Turn saved sources into formatted citations and check your essay for missing or unused ones.
Citations: Projects
Keep each assignment's sources separate with collections.
Citations: Add by DOI and Tidy Up
Add a source from its DOI, remove duplicates and restore a source removed by mistake.
Text Customisation
Change the font and the spacing between letters, words, lines and paragraphs.
Reading Guide
Draw a line that follows your mouse down the page so you always know which line you are on.
Custom Cursor
Replace the mouse pointer with a larger one in a colour and shape you choose.
Magnifying Lens
Enlarge whatever is under your pointer with a lens you can offset or lock in place.
Screen Colour Overlay
Tint the whole page with a colour you choose, without touching the text underneath.
Reduced Motion
Freeze spinners, banners and tickers in place, or follow your system's motion setting.
Auto-play Blocking
Stop videos starting by themselves when a page opens until you choose to play them.
Reading Progress
Add a bar that fills as you scroll, so you can see how much of the page is left.
Speed Reading
Play a paragraph back one word at a time in the same spot, so your eyes can stay still.
Focus Mode
Dim everything except a clear window that follows your pointer.
Simplified Interface
Strip a page down to the content you are reading, removing adverts, banners and sidebars.
Pomodoro Timer
Put a timer on the page for work blocks and breaks, in the corner you choose.
Canvas LMS
Add read buttons to Canvas assignments and to each question in a quiz.
Moodle LMS
Add read buttons to Moodle forums, pages and assignments.
Google Classroom
Add read buttons to the Google Classroom stream, classwork and each assignment.
Study Tools Toolbar
Find out why the AI study tools only appear once an AI option is switched on, and where that setting lives.
Study Tools Discovery
See a one-time card on course pages that names the AI study tools.
AI Summary
Shorten a selected passage to a brief, moderate or detailed summary.
Summary Reading Level
Set how plainly AI Summary and Simplify Text write, down to Very Plain.
AI Simplification
Rewrite a dense passage in plainer, shorter sentences at a level you choose.
Assignment Breakdown
Turn an assignment brief into a checklist of steps with rough timings.
Socratic Tutor
Get questions about a passage instead of answers, to check you have understood it.
Knowledge Graph
Draw how the ideas in a section connect as a map, and export it as an image.
Study Path
Turn material to learn into an ordered list of topics with a time against each one.
Multi-Document Analysis
Compare up to five passages and list what they share and where they differ.
Analyze Citation
Check how reliable a source looks and see the good and warning signs before you cite it.
Mind Map
Turn an article, or your own notes, into a map or tree of connected ideas.
Mind Map capture
Send a highlighted passage straight into a mind map as you read.
Mind Map templates
Start a map from one of six templates that lay out branches for a common kind of project.
Mind Map editing
Add, nest and style nodes with keyboard moves and the Details panel.
Mind Map AI help
Build a first-draft map from a page, suggest sub-points, explain a branch or turn it into test questions.
Mind Map import, export and shortcuts
Import and export mind maps in common formats and see every shortcut the map understands.
Flashcards
Turn a highlighted passage into a flashcard with spaced review built in.
Learning Record
Keep an on-device record of your tool use and reading speed to shape the AI around how you work.
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Previous version (AssisT 0.9)
Show the 33 AssisT 0.9 videos
These recordings show the AssisT 0.9 interface, which looks different from 1.0. Each link opens the video on YouTube in a new tab.
- Install & First-Time Setup (Getting Started, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Popup Controls (Getting Started, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Browser AI Setup (Getting Started, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Local AI Setup (Getting Started, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Cloud AI Setup (Getting Started, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Read Aloud (Reading Help, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Reading Mode (Reading Help, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Dyslexia Mode (Reading Help, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- OCR — Image Text (Reading Help, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Speech to Text (Writing Help, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Quick Actions Menu (Look Up Words, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Text Customisation (Reading Aids, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Reading Guide (Reading Aids, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Reading Progress (Reading Aids, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Speed Read (RSVP) (Reading Aids, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Sticky Notes (Reading Aids, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Custom Cursor (Pointer & Zoom, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Magnifying Lens (Pointer & Zoom, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Focus Mode (Visual Comfort, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Screen Colour Overlay (Visual Comfort, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Reduced Motion (Visual Comfort, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Pomodoro Timer (Productivity, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Simplified Interface (Productivity, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- Citations (School Tools, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- LMS Integration (School Tools, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Summarisation (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Text Simplification (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Assignment Breakdown (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Socratic Tutor (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Knowledge Graph (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Study Path (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Citation Analyser (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)
- AI Multi-Doc Compare (AI Assist, AssisT 0.9, opens in a new tab)