- Describe the topic. Enter the unit title and the central topic: the one idea the whole map is about. Then add your learning outcomes, the level of your students and your discipline. Outcomes make the biggest difference. “Compare the mechanisms of action of the main anticoagulant classes” produces a far more useful map than “anticoagulants”.
- Say what the map is for. Introduce a topic gives students a clear overview of a new area. Revision summary pulls together what they should already know before an exam. Plan teaching maps the content of a unit or module for you. Then choose the detail. Simple gives main branches with one level of points. Detailed adds a second level. You can also let the AI choose the number of main branches, or set it from 4 to 7.
- Add your source material (optional but recommended). Under “Source material and more options”, paste lecture notes or key points, or upload a PDF (up to 40 pages and 15 MB), such as a reading, guideline or chapter. The PDF is checked, read securely by the AI and then deleted; the file itself is never stored. Reading costs a few credits per 10 pages, charged only if the read succeeds. You can also add notes about your cohort and anything else the map should take into account. A map built from your own material will match what you actually teach.
- Generate. The map usually takes under a minute. You’re charged once, when the finished map is saved. If something goes wrong, you aren’t charged.
- Explore the map. Colours separate the main branches. Click the small circle at the end of a branch to hide or show the detail under it, and use −, Fit and + to zoom. On a phone the map scrolls sideways. Below the map, the outline gives the same content as text with every note, followed by “Ways to use this map”.
- Edit it. Choose “Edit map”, then click any box to change its text or note, add a sub-point or a point below it, move it up or down, or delete it. Choose “Save changes” when you’re done; edits are free. To have the AI rewrite one main branch and everything under it, select that branch and choose “Regenerate this branch”. The rest of the map stays as it is, and the price is shown on the button.
- Make the student version. Choose “Student fill-in”. About a third of the smaller boxes become numbered blanks, spread across the branches so every blank has a clue next to it. The centre and main branches always stay visible to give students the structure. “New blanks” picks a different set, for example a fresh one for each tutorial group.
- Download it. Downloads match the version on screen. PNG image suits slides and your learning management system (LMS). SVG stays sharp at any size. Word puts the map on a landscape page; the full version adds the outline, the teaching suggestions and the answer key for the current blanks. Print / PDF opens a print-ready page that you can save as a PDF.
- Spin off related material. From a finished map you can generate a Presentation, 10 MCQs or a Lesson Plan built on it. Each option is priced on its own button and pre-filled from the map. You can also make a mind map from a finished Lesson Plan, Case Study, Presentation or Hybrid AI Activity. Every map is saved to “My Mind Maps” and to “Everything You’ve Generated” on your User Hub.
Every action’s credit cost is shown on its own button before you commit to it. Nothing is charged silently.