Study with Neurona

Neurona is an educational suite that takes the internet and turns it into your classroom.

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Inspiration

  • Many students use AI to complete assignments and generate answers, but few use AI to genuinely assist their learning.
  • We wanted to give students access to an AI-driven study tool, from directly within their browser.
  • Giving this streamlined access minimizes the possibility that students would opt for an “easier” solution such as using ChatGPT for homework answers.
  • At the same time, students are increasingly turning to AI rather than their peers or teachers for answers to things they don't know.
  • Our goal is to shift that access back to educators, enabling them to understand what their students are struggling with.

What it does

  • Neurona is a chrome browser extension that takes text from any website (individual text blocks or whole site) and generates study materials based on that text.
  • Currently, Neurona is able to generate summaries, quizzes, and downloadable flashcards.
  • Neurona is tightly coupled with Neurona for Educators; Neurona sends telemetrics about student engagement
  • Neurona for Educators gives insight into what Neurona is being used for and what topics students are struggling with, so that teachers can adequately adapt lesson plans.

How we built it

  • We started by building a JavaScript-based frontend with Gemini API calls for the Neurona Chrome extension.
  • Based off that frontend, we then created a NodeJS-based backend with a remote PSQL database for the Neurona for Educators website.

Challenges we ran into

  • Packaging the data to be successfully read and analyzed by API calls
  • Hosting the Node.js backend and working with telemetrics

Accomplishments we’re proud off

  • Built an actual, functioning Chrome Extension!
  • The extension transforms the web into an interactive learning environment, enabling users to summarize content, take quizzes, and create flashcards

What we learned

  • Understood the challenges that educators face today with regards to AI
  • Wrote effective, optimised, prompts with AI
  • Pair programming with AI allowed us to scale from idea to MVP extremely quickly, giving us the space to pivot across several ideas Familiarity with building Chrome Extensions; managed to build a functioning one!

What’s next for Study with Neurona

  • Tighter integration with “Neurona for Educators”, to provide targeted, actionable data for educators
  • Improving the “Study with Neurona” extension through an expanded suite of study tools
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