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title: "How To Go Through Onboarding"
description: "Shiken onboarding helps Shiken's AI to personalise your learning experience."
url: https://help.shiken.ai/en/articles/7668995-how-to-go-through-onboarding
collection: "Shiken For Learners"
updated: 2026-04-05
language: en
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# How To Go Through Onboarding

Shiken onboarding helps Shiken's AI to personalise your learning experience.

After signing up you'll be asked a few questions that help personalise your learning experience. All are based on evidence-based learning techniques.

# Step 1: Select Your Stage

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115231_1428.png)

This step sets the desirable difficulty of content delivered by Shiken.

# Step 2: Subjects

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115230_9488.png)

Select the Subjects that interest you. This ensure you only receive content suggestions relevant to your needs.

# Step 3: Products

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115231_9522.png)

To help you get started and to refine your interests choose up to 3 topics.

# Step 4: Set Learning Goals

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115230_7493.png)

Setting a goal has been shown to improve your learning outcomes and engagement with what you are studying.

Shiken allows you to set a combination of active recall questions, course lessons and mindfulness minutes as well as setting a deadline to complete our learning by.

You can see all of your goals and deadlines in the goals area of Shiken and each can be customized with a color and icon.

# Step 5: Unlock Your First Study Buddy

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115231_8721.png)

This step reminds you why you are using Shiken and also familiarizes you with Shiken's active-recall system. There are no wrong answers and to reward you for completing onboarding you'll be rewarded with your first Study Buddy!

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/6728b1aa8cedee5fdb5606a0/20241104115230_2639.png)

Unlock them all by building good learning habits and using Shiken regularly.