Academy · Glossary

The words of AI, explained simply.

28 terms you will meet in Learnya and in the courses, each linked to the lesson that goes deeper.

Agent

An assistant that does more than answer. It plans, uses tools, works through the steps and asks for your agreement before acting.

Go deeper: From an assistant that answers to an agent that acts
Approval

The moment when Learnya shows you what it is about to do, such as sending a message, adding to the Agenda or publishing a post, and waits for your agreement.

Go deeper: Understanding approvals
Assistant

An agent set up for a specific purpose, with its own instructions, sources, tools and guardrails. It can be shared with a team.

Go deeper: Writing an assistant’s instructions
Audit log

The record of what was done in the organisation, by whom and when. Administrators view and export it.

Go deeper: Using the audit log
Challenger agent

A second agent tasked with rereading an answer and looking for its flaws. Useful before a decision or a publication.

Go deeper: Sources and the challenger agent
Connector

The link between Learnya and a service you already use, such as a mailbox, a calendar or a CRM. Each connector is activated with your permission.

Go deeper: Connect a mailbox and let Learnya prepare the replies
Context

Everything the agent knows to handle your request: your message, the attached documents, the history and your preferences. The more accurate it is, the more accurate the answer.

Go deeper: Goal and context
Context window

The amount of text a model can take into account at once. Beyond that, the text has to be split or summarised, which is why well-organised documents help.

Go deeper: Calculation and long documents
Deployment modes

Learnya can be used online, locally on a workstation or on your organisation’s servers. The choice depends on your data and your constraints.

Go deeper: Choosing a deployment mode
Drive

The space where your documents, presentations and files live in Learnya, organised by project and ready to share.

Go deeper: Organising and finding your files in the Drive
Guardrail

A rule that limits what an assistant can do, such as never sending without approval or never quoting client data.

Go deeper: Setting the guardrails
Hallucination

A false answer stated with confidence, for example a source that does not exist. The defence is to ask for sources and check the key figures.

Go deeper: Hallucinations
Instructions

The text that tells an assistant its role, what it must do, what it must never do and the expected format.

Go deeper: Writing an assistant’s instructions
Language model

The engine that generates the text. It predicts the most likely continuation of a text from what it has learned, which explains both its strengths and its errors.

Go deeper: Predicting what comes next in a text
OOXML

The open format of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Learnya’s Office suite opens and saves it, so your files move around without conversion.

Go deeper: Create a deck from a document
Plan

The sequence of steps Learnya proposes before acting on a complex request. You can follow it, correct it or stop it at any time.

Go deeper: Following the plan and the tools
Review deck

A set of question-and-answer cards that Learnya has you review at the right moment, thanks to spaced repetition.

Go deeper: Create a review deck and use “Today”
Role

A member’s level of rights in the organisation: administrator, member or read-only.

Go deeper: Members, seats and roles
Scheduled task

A request that Learnya carries out on its own at a set time, such as a report every Monday. It can be paused or changed at any time.

Go deeper: Scheduling a task
SCORM

The standard format for e-learning modules. A lesson created in Learnya can be exported as SCORM for your training platform.

Go deeper: Build an e-learning lesson with a quiz and export it as SCORM
Skill

Reusable know-how that the agent draws on when the task calls for it, such as producing a deck or analysing a spreadsheet.

Go deeper: Choosing the tools and skills
Source

A document, a website or a folder that the agent consults to answer. An answer with sources can be checked, an answer without a source can only be taken on trust.

Go deeper: Providing knowledge and sources
Sovereignty

Keeping control over your data, where it is hosted and which laws apply to it. Learnya is designed and hosted in Switzerland.

Go deeper: Confidentiality and sovereignty
Spaced repetition

A method that brings each concept back just before you would forget it. Reviews become less frequent as your memory holds.

Go deeper: Create a review deck and use “Today”
SSO

Single sign-on. Your staff sign in to Learnya with their company account, and someone leaving is handled in one place.

Go deeper: SSO, passkeys and two-factor authentication
Tool

An action the agent can carry out, such as searching the web, reading a file or creating an event. An administrator chooses which tools are allowed.

Go deeper: Skills, tools and restrictions
Transcription

Turning audio into text. Learnya transcribes meetings and dictation in six languages and produces minutes, a summary or tasks from them.

Go deeper: Transcribe a meeting and get the minutes
Watch

A search that Learnya runs again at regular intervals on a topic, so that it only flags what is new, with its sources.

Go deeper: Setting up a watch