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A study guide is structured reference content for your students — study notes, a topic overview, an exam primer. You build it from blocks, publish it to your classrooms, and students read it in a clean, accessible reading view.
Study Guides are available on the Premium plan (paid or comp’d) — creating one requires Premium. A study guide you’ve already created stays open to view and edit if you later move to a lower tier; only creating a new one is gated. See Plans & Pricing.

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Try it live

Read a published study guide the way a student would, with two live examples embedded inside it. Every example is a real activity in read-only mode, no account needed.

The French Revolution: Study Guide

Six sections, a key-dates table, callouts, and embedded flash cards and fill-in-the-blank practice.

All live examples

One example for every activity type and sub-type.

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Building a guide

Choose New Study Guide from your dashboard, then assemble the page from blocks:
Blocks sit in a single flat sequence — there are no nested subsections, and the contents list is a flat set of links to your heading blocks. Structure a long guide by using headings consistently and keeping the order logical, or by splitting it into several guides.

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Embedding activities

Choose Embed Activity from the add-block menu to place your own content inside the guide. Everything except Live Quizzes can be embedded, and each type behaves in one of three ways on the published page:
  • Flash Cards and Fill-in-the-Blank run as compact interactive players directly in the guide — students flip cards or fill blanks without leaving the page.
  • Maps, Timelines, Graphs & Charts, and Diagrams appear as a card with a Load button; clicking it opens the full interactive activity in place. An Open full page link is always available too.
  • Assessments and Experiences appear as link cards that open on their own page in a new tab.
Embeds follow the activity’s own access rules. An archived activity shows its archived notice, a graded activity keeps its due-date and submission behavior, and an assessment still requires the student to be enrolled (or have a password link) when they open it. Only published assessments can be embedded.

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Google Drive resources

On a Plus or Premium account you can attach Google Drive files to a study guide. Files are linked, not copied — students always open the current version in Drive, and ChimeEdu never modifies your Drive content.
Attachments are listed for the guide as a whole rather than embedded inside particular sections, and the file name is captured when you attach it — renaming the file in Drive later won’t update the name shown in ChimeEdu.

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AI-assisted drafting

Premium accounts can draft a guide with AI: choose Generate with AI, describe what you want, optionally upload source material, and watch sections stream in. You can refine with follow-up instructions, regenerate individual sections, and append to or replace existing content. See Study Guide AI for the full workflow.
AI output is written straight into the guide as it completes — there’s no separate draft to approve first. If the guide is already published, students see the new content immediately. Draft in an unpublished guide when you want to review before students do.

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Publishing and access

A guide is a draft until you publish it. Publishing makes it available in the Study Guides tab of every classroom you’ve linked it to.
Published guides are reachable by anyone with the classroom URL — enrollment isn’t checked, and the page offers a copy-link button for sharing. If a guide shouldn’t be public, set a password on it; that password is the only access control available. Keep genuinely sensitive material off study guides.

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What students get

Students read the guide with a set of reading controls they can adjust themselves:
  • A contents list for jumping between sections
  • Font choice, including OpenDyslexic for readers with dyslexia
  • Their preferences are remembered on their device
No action is needed from you to enable these.

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Frequently asked

Study guide video blocks take YouTube and Vimeo links. Direct video file upload is restricted to platform administrators.
No. Your plan’s limit counts activities and assessments; study guides and Experiences sit outside it.
No — publishing doesn’t send an email or in-app alert. Let your class know it’s ready.