Prospectus
01Your material. A clear plan.
- Source material
- 1 text
- The term
- 3 weeks
- Daily allowance
- 60 min
- Papers
- 4 assessments
Independent study, run properlyEst. for the work itself
Follow your curiosity.
Give it a term.
From philosophy to physics, bring the material you want to understand. Lyceum gives it a clear plan, daily study, and a record of how far you’ve come.
01 Material stays attached 02 Dates become real 03 Work leaves a record
Curiosity, given a structure
Everything
has its place.
Your material becomes a prospectus, a place in your week, and a record of the work you do.
See how it comes togetherCalendar
02A fixed term. A steady pace.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read | ● | ● | ● | — | — |
| Review | — | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Practise | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
Record
03Your work. Kept together.
- Contract signed✓
- Course enrolled✓
- Practice completed✓
Example: Introduction to Probability · standard pace · first study week. Generated from the app’s registrar and a verified demonstration ledger.
23open-access titles in the Library
3pacings, chosen once, then binding
1attempt at every paper
Your deviceholds your main study record
For the life of the mind
The world is too interesting
for just one subject.
Ask how the stars move. What makes a society just. Why a species changes. Follow a question into a book, and a book into a course.
“All men by nature desire to know.”
A cabinet of questions
Look closer. There is a course in it.
A change of perspective
P(A | B)=P(B | A) P(A)P(B)
New evidence.
A different answer.
Bayes’ theorem connects what you already believe with what you learn next.
Explore probability ↗
Chemistry
Give an idea an experiment.
From careful measurement to a different understanding of matter.
Study chemistry ↗The registrar's workspace
A little structure. A deeper kind of study.
Your reading, daily work, and course record share one workspace. These are real screens from a demonstration enrolment.
Scroll the strip to see more.
A small, deliberate sequence
You bring the material. Lyceum makes the commitment concrete.
Submit the source
A PDF, a document, notes or a web page. The text is extracted without throwing away its original context, and contents pages, prefaces and indexes are recognised so they are never scheduled.
Read the prospectus
Three paces by daily effort. You see the exact study blocks, assessment dates, workload and grading weights before anything is enrolled.
Sign the contract
Enrolment is a registration contract: your typed name, your drawn signature, and a hash of the terms written into the ledger.
Keep the term
Daily blocks, quizzes, problem sets, a midterm, a project and a final. One attempt each. A missed paper is recorded as missed.
A course, not a to-do list
The schedule is the product.
Anyone can make a reading list. The hard part is a shape you cannot quietly renegotiate on a bad Tuesday.
- Three workload options, shown in full before enrolment
- Original pages and reading context at every study block
- A local record, a transcript, a contract and a certificate
Introduction to ProbabilityExample course
| Week | Study |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Sample spaces and events · 2. The axioms of probability … and 1 more |
| 2 | 3. Conditional probability and independence · 4. Bayes' theorem … and 2 more |
| 3 | Review and final examination |
Computed by the same registrar that plans your course.
Nothing to upload
Where will your curiosity take you?
Twenty-three open-access titles — OpenStax textbooks under CC BY and public-domain classics — each with a real course plan already computed by the registrar.
AstronomyAstronomy
34 weeks · 60 min a dayCC BY 4.0PhilosophyThe Republic
18 weeks · 60 min a dayPublic domainChemistryChemistry
32 weeks · 60 min a dayCC BY 4.0
StatisticsIntroductory Statistics
22 weeks · 60 min a dayCC BY 4.0
BiologyOn the Origin of Species
13 weeks · 60 min a dayPublic domain
EconomicsThe Wealth of Nations
32 weeks · 60 min a dayPublic domain
Observe. Question. Understand.
Read the work behind the idea ↗“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
The architecture of follow-through
The course remains legible after motivation leaves.
A serious study system has to work on ordinary days. Every event — enrolling, attending, starting a paper, submitting it, being graded, missing a deadline — is written into a hash-chained ledger you can verify yourself.
Explore your course record
The point is accountability
There are limits by design.
The calendar is binding.
Dates, weights and examination windows are shown before enrolment and then held constant. One quiz, problem set or project a term may be deferred by three days; examinations never move.
One attempt means one attempt.
Starting a paper seals it. Leaving the page does not stop the timer. A missed paper is recorded as missed and graded zero.
The record is legible.
Course events are kept in a hash-chained ledger that can be checked from the record page, and exported whole.
Before you start
Reasonable questions.
Is this accredited?
No. Lyceum is an independent study tool and does not award accredited academic credit. A certificate records that you finished the course you enrolled in, and it can be checked against the register.
What material can I use?
A PDF, a Word document, notes, markdown, plain text or a web page. You can also start from the Library of open-access titles. Contents pages, prefaces and indexes are recognised and never scheduled.
Where is my work stored?
Your main study record lives in your browser on your device. Faculty requests, cohort participation and registered certificates can send relevant information to the server. Signing in does not back up your study record; export it to keep a separate copy.
Can I change the schedule after enrolling?
No, and that is the point. Dates, weights and examination windows are shown in full before you sign and are fixed afterwards. One quiz, problem set or project a term may be deferred by three days; examinations never move.
Does it cost anything?
The web app is free. In the iOS and Android apps each course enrolment is a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the AI faculty and a registered certificate for that course.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Fonts and libraries are bundled into the app, so once it has loaded it runs with no network at all. The offline examiner sets and grades papers when no faculty key is configured.
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