Xplain: Smart Teaching Assistant

Xplain: Smart Teaching Assistant

engineeringBy Jackson Barnes

Xplain is an teaching assistance tool that helps educators by providing real-time analysis and support during teaching sessions.

Xplain is an innovative teaching assistance tool that helps educators by providing real-time analysis and support during teaching sessions. It processes voice transcriptions of teacher-student interactions and provides contextual assistance to enhance the teaching experience.

The prototype uses OpenAI's API to analyze teaching conversations in real-time, identifying opportunities to provide additional context, examples, or resources that can improve the learning experience. The system runs on a simple Express.js server that makes it easy to deploy in various educational settings.

Features

  • Real-time voice transcription processing
  • Intelligent context analysis of teacher-student dialogues
  • Automatic detection of teaching moments that require assistance
  • Dynamic item generation based on teaching context

Prototype Stack:

Node.js - The runtime environment for running the server-side application Express.js - The web application framework for handling HTTP requests OpenAI API - For processing and analyzing the teaching interactions