Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This article (15 page PDF) describes an application that ingests a PDF slide deck, analyzes it for academic content, and generates a question set based on that content. I wanted to try it, but it asks for my Gemini API key, and I didn't want to run up a Google tab (Gemini is expensive; I learned that the hard way). But you can test it if you want, and also view the software repository. I can think of a variety of applications for a tool such as this, not the least of which is posing a set of questions to a student after they've presented their own work as a slide deck.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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