Ask Grandma

Inspiration

We were inspired to build a chatbot because of the increasing popularity of online education and the limited time that parents and teachers have to interact with students. With more and more people turning to online learning platforms, we realised that there was a need for personalised, interactive tools that could help students learn and engage with the material in a fun and meaningful way. We were also motivated by the need to increase the use of multi-media approaches in education, particularly for younger students.

What it does

It provides STEM lessons with a multi-media approach, and quizzes you at the end of each lesson.

How we built it

We built out flow diagrams, and fleshed out our STEM stories before building on the Kore.ai platform.

Challenges we ran into

Building a chatbot was a challenging but rewarding experience. The two biggest challenges we faced were learning how to use a new platform, and putting ourselves into the mindset of a student. We had to spend a lot of time experimenting with the platform in order to create the chatbot, and then more time figuring out what lessons and stories we could tell. Another challenge was deciding the best way to incorporate a multimedia approach into my chatbot. Currently we use GIF's but would like to include video and audio in the future

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building our first educational chatbot! Learning (or re-learning in some cases) KS2/3 maths, biology, and chemistry!

What we learned

Building a chatbot becomes very complicated once you start adding in choices and trying to connect multiple nodes following choice splitting! Having an option to build out the conversation as a conversation and then as a flow was very useful.

What's next for Ask Grandma

Definitely a lot of tidying up of particular nodes! On top of that, increasing the amount of lessons, introducing feedback and scoring, and bringing in more multi-media!

Built With

• gifs
• kore.ai