Master quantum concepts with enhanced practice from Black Opal
At Q-CTRL, our goal for Black Opal is simple: deliver the world’s most effective and accessible quantum computing course. That means ensuring the best possible educational outcomes for our learners.
Today, we’re excited to launch enhanced practice – a new way to reinforce and deepen your understanding of quantum concepts. Developed in response to user feedback, enhanced practice offers more variation, greater depth, and smarter feedback to strengthen your skills.
Whether you’re just starting out or are deep into your learning journey, enhanced practice provides a dedicated space for revision, reinforcement, a path to deep understanding, and strong retention of what you’ve learned.
The road to quantum advantage is not only about better qubits, but also intelligent software that empowers people with the expertise to unlock its potential. enhanced practice helps you build the deep conceptual mastery needed for problem-solving, informed algorithm design, and real-world impact.
Introducing a new way to practice
Developing deep intuition for quantum concepts is more than just completing Black Opal’s skills – it’s about truly understanding them.
The revamped Practice section, available to all users, enables you to revise everything you’ve learned so far in short, flash-card style sessions. These targeted exercises are focused on the areas where you need the most reinforcement, enabling you to strengthen recall and your understanding of core quantum concepts.
A personalized learning experience
Personalized practice sessions in Black Opal draw from up to 600 challenge questions and activities covering everything you’ve completed so far.
Each short, eight-question session is tailored to focus on the areas where you need the most reinforcement, making it a quick and effective way to strengthen your understanding of core quantum concepts across the platform.
Make the most of your time
Within enhanced practice, we highlight the areas where you can strengthen your mastery of quantum concepts, so every session is focused, effective, and makes the best use of your time.
Whenever you revise or complete activities in the main course, your mastery profile updates automatically. The new Practice dashboard and the mastery indicators on each topic give you an instant view of your progress at a glance.
Practice makes perfect
Every topic in Black Opal has three mastery levels: Needs revision, Good, and Exceptional.
By revisiting skills and strengthening your understanding, you can progress toward Exceptional in every topic – and ultimately across all of Black Opal. This ensures you have the strongest possible grasp of quantum concepts, with knowledge that’s not just remembered, but truly mastered.
Develop true quantum intuition with enhanced practice
Enhanced practice is available to all users. Contact us to enquire about our enterprise and educational access to Black Opal, or sign up for free to try Black Opal for yourself.
