Student help
The student guide
Everything you need to get started, plus the one rule that matters most: the tutor helps you write your reflection — it does not write it for you.
Getting started in four steps
- Download a library. Start with Reflective Foundations if you are new, or a specialist library if you have a set standard to meet (NHS, medical, US academic).
- Upload it to an AI tool. Attach the Markdown file to a conversation in a tool that accepts file uploads, or paste its contents in.
- Type
prompt. This shows the menu of tools. Pick one by number or name. - Paste a passage of your own writing, or describe your situation, and work through the questions. Type
promptat any time to return to the menu.
This is not a first-draft generator
The tutor will not invent what happened to you, how you felt, what you realised, or what you learned. Those are the parts that make a reflection yours, and in professional contexts inventing them can be dishonest or against the rules.
What it will do is ask good questions, explain the difference between description and reflection, show you worked examples on unrelated situations, and review what you write. If that feels like more work than getting an AI to "just write it" — that is the point. The work is the reflection.
If you get stuck
Say "I'm stuck" at any point. The tutor will take a step back, make the task smaller, and offer a more manageable next move. You can also ask it to explain why it is asking something, or to give another example.
Protect real people
Reflective reports usually involve others — patients, service users, clients, pupils, colleagues. Before you paste anything into a public AI tool, check your course, placement, employer, regulator and data-protection rules. Do not include anything that could identify a real person.
Removing a name is often not enough: a handful of ordinary details together can still point to one person. Use the anonymisation tools (NH4 for healthcare, MD3 for medical) and read the anonymisation guide before you share or save.
Free AI plans
On a free plan, prefer a single mini library rather than the master file — the master contains all thirty tools and is large. One mini library is usually well within limits and keeps the tutor focused.
Which library should I use?
- New to reflection, or any subject: Reflective Foundations.
- Told to use a named model: Reflective Frameworks (Gibbs, What/So What/Now What, Kolb, Brookfield).
- Nursing or midwifery (NMC): NHS & Healthcare.
- Medicine, PA or AA (UK): Medical Reflection.
- US higher education, service-learning: US & Academic.