Imagine you’re working on the Oireachtas. Open the guide inside Study and read it there. Save it to a space called “Politics & Society”, choose a learning goal, and ask Dex to help you distinguish the Dáil, Seanad and President.

Learn asks you to think through the material. Give an answer, ask for a hint, or explain where you’re stuck. Dex receives the recent exchanges in that space, so the next question can follow your attempt. You can choose a particular source and use English or Irish for the tutor’s responses.

Then switch to Test. Write your answers before revealing the key. Compare them with the suggested answer and cited passage. If you mark an answer “Needs work”, Study adds that question to your revision cards. Next time you open Today, you’ll see what is due and which topics deserve another try.

The guide, your answers, your tutor session and the revision card remain together. That continuity is the point: you should be able to spend the next session learning rather than rebuilding the last one.

Study brings our published English and available Irish guides into one searchable library. Read the full guide, follow its source links, save a copy to a space, and move straight into tutoring or practice. You can also import selectable-text PDFs, text files and your own notes.

Four guided paths give you a starting point. Irish politics from scratch begins with the institutions and moves towards government and law. Politics & Society builds a foundation for further study and practice. CSPE: take part connects democratic participation with civic action. Research Irish politics and law focuses on finding, reading and citing evidence.

The paths are sequences of useful guides. For coursework or an exam, keep your teacher’s instructions and syllabus alongside them. Study does not claim that finishing a path covers every learning outcome or certifies your knowledge.

A useful study home should help you decide what to do next. Today lets you continue your most recently updated space, review cards that are due, and return to topics from your latest practice checks.

If you’re following a path, it also recommends the next unread guide and explains why it is showing up. You can see which steps have been read and which have been practised.

We keep those signals separate. Marking a guide as read records reading progress. A guide knowledge check or a practice review records an attempt. Reading something once should never silently become a claim that you understand it.

Research helps you find an answer in your sources, with passages you can inspect. Learn gives you questions, hints and feedback on an attempt. Test creates short-answer practice with a key you reveal when you’re ready. Revise turns material and missed practice into cards you can revisit. Write gives feedback on your own draft’s structure, evidence and clarity.

Write is a coach. It asks you to strengthen the argument and look again at the evidence; it is instructed to avoid producing a replacement essay. Your draft stays yours, and the space keeps a log of assistance.

Across these modes, the learning goal and chosen source help keep the task focused. Practice requests can also include topics you have marked as needing work. These are specific pieces of context that help Dex respond to the session you are actually having.

When Dex generates study material, it works from selected passages in your saved sources. Each returned item includes a source quote. Study checks that the quoted text exists in the cited passage and leaves out items whose quotes cannot be verified.

That check has a clear limit. A matching quote proves the passage exists; it does not prove Dex’s interpretation is correct or complete. Open the source, read the surrounding material and check the reasoning. Our guides retain links to their underlying sources so you can continue that process beyond Study.

Practice ratings are self-assessment, not official grades. An AI answer key can also need correction. We want the interface to help you examine an answer and decide what to revisit, while keeping the evidence and those limits visible.

Update, 2 October 2026: Dex Study now uses a free DáilDex account. Your spaces are saved to that account as you work, so you can start on a laptop and carry on from your phone. This device keeps an offline copy for revising without a connection, and anything saved only in your browser from the first release can be moved into your account in one click. The rest of this section describes the first release.

This release saves study spaces in the browser on your current device. It does not synchronise them between devices. Your sources, drafts, answers, cards and session history can be backed up as a Study file; notes can also be exported as Markdown or printed to PDF.

When you ask Dex for help, relevant source passages and the request are sent to the selected model. A tutor request also includes your learning goal and recent session context. PDF extraction happens on the server. Study model requests deny provider data collection and do not inherit chat’s training-consent setting.

Export a backup before clearing browser data or moving to another device. Saved sources and cards can be used without another model call; asking the tutor or generating new practice needs a connection and a Dex pass. The model picker shows the options available to your plan.

You don’t need to organise an entire course before trying Study. Choose one guide. Save it to a space. Ask Dex a question, then try answering in your own words. Use the source to check your understanding and turn the difficult part into something you can revisit.

We built DáilDex to make Irish parliamentary information easier to find, follow and understand. Dex Study extends that work into learning: a place to read carefully, ask a better question, practise an explanation and come back to it.

Open Study, choose your first guide, and begin with the idea you want to understand next.

How a Bill becomes law, the Oireachtas explained and researching Irish politics are three useful starting points. Each guide links back to its sources.