Bring their notes
Students paste their notes or import a lecture PDF and check the extracted text against the original pages, formulas included. Practice is built only from what they add, not from a general course bank.
FOR INSTRUCTORS · FREE CLASS PILOT
Students explain it themselves.
In their own words.
Parlor Study asks students to explain an idea from their lecture notes, apply it to a new case, and come back to it a day later. Every answer is theirs to write: feedback points to what’s missing and asks them to try again. We’re starting a small, free pilot with college sections this fall, beginning with introductory research methods. Your section joins with one link.
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What your students do.
Explain and apply
For each part of a lecture, Parlor asks them to explain an idea in their own words or apply it to a new case, and they write the answer. Feedback names what’s right and what’s missing, quotes the passage of their notes it relied on, and asks them to restate the part that needs work.
Come back later
A day or so later, a fresh question on the same idea waits on their desk. First attempts are kept separate from answers revised after feedback, so a revision doesn’t hide the original gap.
Screenshots from the Parlor Study web app, October 2026, using a demo account and a demo statistics lecture. AI feedback can be wrong.
How a class pilot works.
We create your class
Tell us the course and section, roughly how many students, and when the term ends. We can limit the class to your school’s email addresses (for example, only @college.edu), so a forwarded link doesn’t admit anyone else.
You share one link
You get a class link like parlorstudy.com/class/K7QM-3XRA and its code, with a short paragraph you can paste into your course page or an announcement. No per-student invitations.
Students sign in
The link opens sign-in with the code filled in. Students use their school email (a six-digit code arrives by email, no password) or Google, confirm they’re 13 or older, and agree to the Terms. Students who already use Parlor join from Settings.
The class closes on the end date you choose, or when its seats are used. We can add seats, change the date or turn the link off at any time; turning it off stops new students joining and leaves existing accounts as they are. Participation is free during the preview, and each student gets a free AI allowance.
What you see, and what you don’t.
There is no instructor dashboard. Joining a class doesn’t share a student’s notes, answers, feedback or study time with you or with classmates, and students can’t see who else joined. Study time stays private to each student and is never counted for a class.
If it’s useful, we can tell you how the class is using Parlor as a whole, such as how many students joined and how many practiced this week. We won’t send you names or anyone’s work. If a later version offers instructors more, it will start with class totals, and individual work would be shared only with the student’s consent.
Students’ saved work stays in their own account. AI features send the relevant text to OpenAI or Anthropic through their business APIs, after the student agrees in the app. The privacy policy lists what is stored, who processes it and how students download or delete their data.
What it isn’t.
Not a shortcut. Students write every explanation themselves, from their own notes, and the Terms of Use forbid using Parlor to cheat on graded work or against your school’s academic-integrity rules.
Not a grader. Feedback is generated by AI and can be wrong or out of step with how your course treats a topic. Students are told to check it against their notes and your guidance, and it is never presented as a grade.
Not for proofs or calculations. Practice asks students to explain and apply ideas. Parlor doesn’t check derivations or worked numerical answers, because AI feedback on individual steps isn’t reliable enough yet. See studying subjects with formulas.
A preview. Parlor is in an invitation-only preview, so features change often and sometimes break. It runs in a web browser on laptops and phones; there is no app to install.
Interested in a pilot for your section?
Email us the course, the approximate number of students and the term’s end date. We’ll reply with your class link and the text to share. Want to try it yourself first? Request an invitation and look through the sample research methods course.