Apex Vision AI User Guide: Setup, Features & Shortcuts

Your fast launcher and control center. Click the Apex Vision AI icon to open the pop-up and access every tool in seconds.

1. Open Side Panel Workspace

   Launch your main AI study workspace alongside any webpage.

2. Quick Solve From Current Page

   Analyze the current page and get the latest AI answer without opening the full side panel.

3. Study Actions

   One-tap actions on any answer — Turn Into Flashcards, Quiz Me On This, Explain Why, Summarize This Page, or Create Study Notes.

Get personalized study tips and resources tailored to your specific questions and learning needs.

1. Get Your Answer

   Use the pop-up to submit your homework question.

2. View the Answer

   Notice the book icon in the top-right corner of the pop-up.

3. Click the Book Icon

   Your gateway to customized study recommendations.

4. Discover Tailored Advice

   AI compiles tips, resources, and suggestions to deepen your understanding.

Customize Apex Vision AI to match your preferences and workflow — control visibility, stealth options, appearance, and answer style.

• Toolbar — show or hide the floating toolbar.
• On-Screen Buttons — toggle "Get Answer" buttons on Canvas quizzes.
• Highlight Popup — enable/disable the "Get Answer" pop-up when highlighting text.
• Side-Panel Button — show or hide the Side Panel toggle button on pages.

• Toolbar Stealth Mode — make the toolbar blend in seamlessly.
• Hide On-Screen Buttons — hide buttons for a cleaner, less distracting workspace.
• Stealth Mode Pro Mastermind — advanced display controls for a cleaner study workspace. Press Ctrl + Shift + S to toggle and reveal hidden elements.
• Auto-Stealth display mode Mastermind — changes how Apex controls appear on screen. It does not create an LMS activity entry or alter separate proctoring or device-management settings.

• Font Size — adjust toolbar text size (default 10px).
• Height — customize toolbar height (default 25px).
• Text Opacity — control how visible the toolbar text appears.

• Freeform Mode — detailed, elaborate answers for in-depth understanding.
• Restrictive Mode — straight-to-the-point responses for quick answers.

A powerful, always-accessible AI assistant that lives in your browser's side panel — perfect for longer answers, image analysis, and advanced study tools.

• Dark / Light Mode — switch themes for comfortable viewing.
• MasterMind AI Toggle Premium — faster, more powerful AI for complex queries.
• In-Depth Answers — longer, more detailed explanations in a seamless interface.
• Image Analysis — snap a photo of any problem and get instant solutions.

• Predict Exam Questions — AI predicts likely exam questions from your material.
• Generate Study Guide — comprehensive guides from your notes or any content.
• Generate Flashcards — auto-create flashcards for memorization.
• Essay Writer — assistance for essays, research papers, and assignments.

Guided Study is a tutoring mode rather than an answer mode. Instead of handing you the solution, it starts from your own attempt, works out where you actually got stuck, and gives progressively stronger hints until the concept holds. It is currently in beta and requires a signed-in account.

1. Start with your attempt

   The flow opens at "Step 1 of 4 — Your attempt". Show your working, even if it is wrong; the wrong step is the useful information.

2. Ask for what you need

   Use I'm stuck for a nudge, Just explain it if you want the reasoning outright, or Teach me to be walked through it properly.

3. Get graded hints, not the answer

   Hints get stronger only as you need them, so you keep as much of the thinking as possible.

4. Prove you have it

   Use Practice This to generate a similar question, or Generate Practice Exam to build a full test from the topics you have been working on.

5. Watch topic mastery build

   Guided Study tracks mastery per topic. Mastery updates once Apex has checked an attempt, so it reflects work you have actually done rather than time spent on the page.

Connect a course for better hints. A Guided Study course keeps its notes, sources and mastery together. Upload your own material — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT or MD, up to 20 MB each — and Apex will search it and quote your own notes and readings back to you in hints, instead of explaining from generic sources.

Voice Tutor lets you talk through a problem out loud with a tutor that can see the page you are on. You ask by voice, it answers by voice, and you can keep asking follow-ups without restarting. It requires a signed-in account.

1. Open the tab you want help with

   Voice Tutor reads the tab it is started on, so open your assignment, reading or quiz first. It is ready when the panel says so.

2. Start a session

   Choose Start 10-minute Voice Tutor. Sessions run 10 minutes, and you get up to 10 sessions per day.

3. Grant microphone access

   Chrome will ask for microphone permission the first time. Voice Tutor uses your microphone plus snapshots of that one tab, and nothing else.

4. Talk normally

   Ask what you would ask a tutor sitting next to you. Follow-ups continue the same session, so you never have to re-explain the question. Mute mic pauses input when you need to think or talk to someone.

5. Keep going as the page changes

   Because it reads the current tab, you can move to the next question and keep the same session running.

One at a time. Voice Tutor and Lecture Recording both use the microphone, so stop one before starting the other. The extension will tell you if you try to run both.

For what a voice tutor is useful for and how it compares to typing, see the AI Voice Tutor guide.

Guided Study and Voice Tutor share one setting that decides how much Apex tells you versus how much it makes you work out. Change it whenever the situation changes — there is no wrong setting, and the same student wants different things the night before an exam than during revision.

1. Adaptive

   Apex adjusts as it goes, based on how you are doing on the current topic. A sensible default if you are not sure.

2. Answers first

   Leads with the answer, then the reasoning. Best when you are short on time and want to check your work.

3. Balanced

   An even split between the result and the method.

4. Teach me

   Holds the answer back and works through the reasoning with you. Slowest, and the one that actually prepares you for a closed-book exam.

You can also set response length, and reset your preferences at any time from the Voice Tutor controls.