Inspiration Students often take notes in class, struggling to retain information. Studies show that active-recall based approaches of studying can improve retention. Creating flashcards is one way of achieving this, but this can often be time-consuming. We wanted to build a way to automate this process.
What it does Simply paste in a text source —whether a section of a textbook, or material from lecture — and the service outputs 10 relevant flashcards. These are printed in an easy to copy text format — perfect for a service like Quizlet to directly copy paste into.
How we built it We used React, OpenAI's GPT-3 API, and Node.
Challenges we ran into
- Configuring the API
- Prompt Engineering
- Avenues we pursued that we ended up not pursuing, including a pdf to text conversion, powerpoint to text conversion, and image to text conversion.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Teamwork, communication
- Building a final function product from end-to-end
What we learned
- Improved front/backend development skills
What's next for GenEd
- Integrating the above features that we tabled
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