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Study materials that
build themselves
from your course.

Kova generates flashcards, practice quizzes, and spaced repetition decks directly from your lecture notes, syllabus, or course material — so students study what actually matters, not what they happen to copy down.

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FIN 301 · Week 6 · Capital structure
Flashcard deck · AI generated
Capital Structure & Financing
What is the key difference between a convertible note and traditional debt financing?
Answer
A convertible note defers repayment until a future financing event, converting to equity at a predetermined discount or valuation cap — unlike traditional debt which requires regular repayment regardless of company performance.
16 / 26 cards
Practice quiz · AI generated
At a $8M ARR valuation cap, a convertible note investor who converts at 20% discount gets equity at:
A. $6.4M effective valuation ✓
B. $8M effective valuation
C. $9.6M effective valuation
Three tools

Everything students need
to actually retain it.

Not generic study aids. Tools built from your course content — so students are practicing the exact concepts they'll be tested on.

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AI
Flashcards
Upload a lecture, reading, or week's worth of notes. Kova extracts the key concepts and generates a full flashcard deck — question on one side, explanation on the other. Students get Quizlet-quality cards without spending an hour making them.
  • Generated from your actual course material
  • Students can flip, mark, and review at their own pace
  • Difficult cards resurface more often automatically
  • Decks can be shared across the whole class
  • Students can add their own cards to the AI-generated set
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Practice
Quizzes
AI generates practice quizzes from your course material — multiple choice, true/false, and short answer. Students get instant feedback on each question, with an explanation of why their answer was right or wrong. Not just checking a box — understanding the concept.
  • Questions generated at the right difficulty level
  • Instant explanation with every answer
  • Wrong answers trigger a follow-up question on the same concept
  • Professor sees class-wide weak spots by topic
  • New questions generated each time — no memorizing the answer key
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Spaced
Repetition
The most proven study technique in cognitive science — and the one students almost never actually use because it requires a system. Kova does it for them. Cards surface at the optimal time based on each student's performance history, not a fixed schedule.
  • Concepts each student struggles with come back sooner
  • Concepts they know well come back less often
  • Adapts to each student individually — not one schedule for the class
  • Student sees when each concept is due for review
  • Pre-exam mode intensifies review across all concepts
How it's generated

Upload anything.
Get a study set.

Kova reads your course material — lecture notes, a syllabus section, a chapter, a case study — and extracts the concepts students need to know. You review the deck and publish.

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Upload your material
Paste text, upload a PDF, or link to a course reading. Kova accepts lecture notes, textbook chapters, case studies, or anything you'd normally assign for reading.
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AI extracts the concepts
Kova identifies the key terms, definitions, relationships, and application questions — the things students actually need to understand, not just memorize.
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You review and publish
Review the generated deck, remove anything that's not exam-relevant, add any concepts Kova missed, and publish to the whole class in one click.
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See what students are struggling with
Kova shows which cards students are getting wrong most often — by concept, not just by card. Walk into class knowing what needs more time.
AI deck generator · Week 6 notes
Source material
"Week 6 lecture notes: Capital structure decisions, Modigliani-Miller theorem, trade-off theory, pecking order theory, convertible instruments..."
↓ AI generating 24 flashcards
Card 1 of 24
What does the Modigliani-Miller theorem state in a world without taxes?
In a perfect capital market, the value of a firm is unaffected by its capital structure — only the total cash flows generated by assets determine firm value.
Card 2 of 24
How does the trade-off theory extend MM by introducing taxes?
Firms balance the tax shield benefit of debt against the costs of financial distress — optimal leverage is the point where marginal benefit equals marginal cost.
+ 22 more cards generated
Spaced repetition

The study technique
students never
actually use.

Spaced repetition is the most research-backed study method in cognitive science. It works by surfacing concepts at the exact moment the brain is about to forget them — dramatically improving long-term retention vs. re-reading or cramming.

The problem: actually doing it requires a system students have to maintain themselves. Most don't. Kova does it for them — automatically, per student, based on their actual performance history.

✓Each student's schedule adapts to their results, not a class-wide calendar
✓Pre-exam mode surfaces all due and overdue cards in the week before a test
✓Students see which concepts are coming up, so they can plan their study time
✓Professor sees class-wide retention trends — not just completion rates
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Student study schedule · FIN 301
Due for review today
Convertible note mechanics
Due now
Trade-off theory vs. pecking order
Due now
Modigliani-Miller with taxes
Tomorrow
LTV:CAC calculation
In 2 days
Net burn rate formula
In 8 days
Runway calculation
In 11 days
26
Cards
62%
Retained
4
Due today
Use cases

Works across
every course.

Any course with concepts worth remembering is a course worth adding study tools to. The AI handles the deck creation — you just upload what you've already written.

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Finance
Definitions, ratios & formulas
Burn rate, LTV:CAC, WACC, IRR — finance courses are full of formulas students need to memorize and apply. Flashcards built from lecture notes mean students practice the exact definitions used in class.
"What is the difference between gross margin and contribution margin, and when does each matter more?"
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Strategy
Frameworks & models
Porter's Five Forces, VRIN, BCG matrix — strategy courses rely on frameworks students need to apply quickly. Practice quizzes test application, not just definition.
"Apply Porter's Five Forces to a SaaS company entering the mid-market. Which force is most significant, and why?"
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Marketing
Concepts & terminology
CAC, CLV, STP, brand equity — marketing has a dense vocabulary that students need to internalize before they can apply it. Flashcards make the terminology stick.
"What is the relationship between brand positioning and pricing power? Give an example of each direction of causality."
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Operations
Process & systems knowledge
EOQ, safety stock, OEE — operations concepts require both definition and application. Practice quizzes walk students through calculation-based questions with step-by-step explanations.
"A company has daily demand of 200 units, lead time of 5 days, and safety stock of 300 units. What is the reorder point?"
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HR & Organizational Behavior
Theories & research findings
Motivation theories, leadership models, organizational design principles — OB courses cover dense research that benefits from spaced repetition to actually stick past the exam.
"How does Herzberg's two-factor theory differ from Maslow's hierarchy in predicting workplace motivation?"
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Entrepreneurship
Vocabulary & mental models
PMF, CAC payback period, unit economics, runway — entrepreneurship has its own vocabulary that students need to deploy fluently. AI-generated decks from course readings make that happen.
"What is the difference between product-market fit and market-product fit? How do you test for each?"
What's included

Everything in
the study toolkit.

Not a bolt-on. Built to work with every other part of Kova — so the same concepts from a simulation also appear in the flashcard deck.

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AI deck generation
Upload any course material — Kova extracts the key concepts, writes the questions and answers, and generates a complete deck. Takes seconds, not hours.
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Adaptive spaced repetition
Each student's review schedule adapts to their performance. Cards they know well recede; cards they struggle with return sooner. No manual configuration required.
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AI-generated practice quizzes
Unlimited fresh questions from your course material — multiple choice, true/false, short answer. New questions generated each session so students can't memorize the answer bank.
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Explanations on every answer
Wrong answers don't just get marked incorrect — students get a clear explanation of the concept and a follow-up question targeting the same gap.
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Linked to simulations
Concepts introduced in an Immersive AI simulation automatically surface in the study deck — so the terminology students encounter in context becomes the terminology they study.
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Class-wide weak spot reports
Professor dashboard shows which concepts the class is consistently getting wrong — before the exam, not after. Targeted review becomes possible because the data exists.
Your course material,
turned into a study system.

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