Bring a goal. Take a first step.

Make sure you are ready.

In Tutor ACP, connect your agent and your Tutor service. Choose Codex or Claude in the agent settings. For an institution, your organisation supplies the Tutor address and authorises your public identity.

Starting on your own computer? You can run Tutor MCP locally and connect it to a compatible AI application. Follow Local installation before continuing.

If setup is incomplete, your message is saved as Ready to send. Finish connecting to continue. The client guide explains identity backups and first connection.

Start with something that matters to you.

Open Courses and choose a programme from your institution’s catalogue, or start a personal programme in Conversation if your institution allows it. A shared course may require an invitation or approval before you can join.

For a personal programme, tell the tutor what you want to do, what you already know and how much time you have.

I want to learn enough Spanish to talk with people when I travel.
I am a beginner and can practise for 15 minutes a day.
Help me choose a starting point, then guide me through one short activity.

In another MCP application, begin with “Use Tutor MCP” so the assistant knows to use your connected learning service. You can replace Spanish with a skill, project or subject of your own.

Tutor searches for an existing personal programme before creating a new one. A new personal programme is private and saved from the first exchange.

Try it yourself, then ask for help.

Answer the questions, explain your reasoning and tell the tutor where you get stuck. Try an exercise before asking to see the answer. If you used a hint, make that clear.

You can ask for a different pace, explanation or example:

Give me a smaller example.
Explain it in another way.
Let me try one exercise without hints.
Connect this idea to a situation from my work.
I have five minutes left. What is a useful stopping point?

Each activity can add evidence to the course, helping Tutor choose what to practise or review next. The AI can make mistakes: question an explanation that seems wrong and ask it to check the reasoning.

When a tool asks for permission, review the request. Your choice can be saved for the relevant account, service and agent, and changed in Settings → Agents.

Look for evidence, not just a high number.

Open the course’s Progress view to see what has been recorded and what is due for review. A mastery estimate helps route your learning; it does not by itself prove that you have retained or demonstrated a skill.

Delayed recall can provide evidence of retention. Eligible assessments can support demonstration and transfer to other situations. Badges reflect their recorded evidence and are not an external certification.

A useful question is: “What can I now do, and what should I try next?” Read the progress guide for the differences between estimated, retained, demonstrated and transferred learning.

Leave a clear next step.

Summarise what I practised and what is still difficult.
Save the session in Tutor.
Suggest one next step and tell me what I should review.

Next time, reopen the same account and Tutor service, then return to the conversation or select your course. Ask: “Let’s continue my Spanish course.”

Each conversation keeps its selected course. Switch courses explicitly when you want a different subject, rather than assuming that another conversation changed the current one.

Turn a useful programme into a shared starting point.

If you want others in your institution to follow your programme, open its Sharing and access tab. Sharing a personal course copies its design while keeping private conversations and progress separate.

Review the objectives, choose who can join and submit the programme for the owner’s approval when required. Each member then follows the shared programme with their own learning record.

Look after your account and your learning.

Keep your encrypted identity backup and its phrase safe and separate. Your identity export, conversation files on the device and learning data on the Tutor service have different backup procedures.

You can adjust the application’s language, theme, text size, line spacing and reduced motion in Settings → Reading and appearance. Changing the interface language does not translate your existing conversations or course content.