Inspiration

In the modern era there are a plethora of online resources and programs created to help students study, however, studying efficiently is still a struggle every student faces partially due to the fact that every resource covers a topic rather than being tailor-made for what the student needs to know for their exams. This problem is exacerbated now during the era of online learning, where resources and access to teachers are less readily available. Given how personal and widespread this struggle is we sought to create a webapp that would take an input of text the student is being tested on and produce an output of questions and answers based on the input, thereby removing any irrelevant information commonly found on other sources. We hope that by creating Study Buddy we will give struggling students another avenue to tackle their studies efficiently.

The Problem

Many students do not know a successful and efficient way to study; Study Buddy is designed to effortlessly create study questions that will allow students to be successful in all of their assessments.

What does it do?

Study Buddy accepts a wall of text as an input and generates questions and answers, relevant to the provided text. These are presented as cue cards, which makes it easy for students to study them.

Target Audience

This web app was created for students in middle school to young adults in their undergraduate programs; it is for anyone who needs to memorize facts and concepts.

How it was Built

The backend for Study Buddy was built using with a mix of Node and Express, while the frontend was built using React. We used OpenAI's GPT-3 - a technology at the forefront of natural language processing - to analyze the given text and generate cue cards with questions and answers.

What's next?

We believe that StudyBuddy is a resource that would be helpful to many students, therefore, we plan to keep the site up and running after the hackathon. Furthermore, we understand the shortcomings of StudyBuddy in fields like math or organic chemistry, so we plan to find a way to overcome those shortcomings and make StudyBuddy effective for every subject and student.