Turn PowerPoint lecture slides into exam questions
Upload the file your lecturer taught from. Each slide is stored as one slide, and every question that survives the checks carries the line it was written from and the slide number that line is on.
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Why the .pptx and not a photograph of the screen
A PowerPoint file keeps the text of each slide as text. Reading it directly means the quotes are exact and the slide numbers are the ones on the deck, so a question you disagree with takes ten seconds to settle: open slide 34 and read the line. A photograph of the same slide is an image. It goes through optical character recognition first, and a misread word costs you the question, because a quote that does not match is thrown away rather than guessed at.
What is read, and what is not
| Part of the deck | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Slide titles and body text | Yes | Stored as text in the file, one slide per numbered slide |
| Text boxes, bullets and tables on the slide | Yes | Same text layer as the rest of the slide |
| Speaker notes | No | They are not on the slide, so citing a slide for a line from them would be wrong |
| Diagrams, charts and screenshots | No | Text inside an image is not text. The caption and the bullets around it are |
Getting good questions out of a deck
- Keep one deck per document, so mastery by chapter maps onto lectures.
- Sparse decks give sparse questions. If the slides are three words a line, paste the handout or the transcript in as well.
- Ask for clinical vignettes on the management slides and single best answer on the definition slides; a lecture usually splits that way by section.
- Sixty slides of real text is a useful bank. A deck of section dividers and images is not, whatever tool reads it.
What the slide number buys you
Every accepted question prints the quote it was built from and the slide that quote is on. When a question surprises you, you go straight to that slide instead of hunting through the deck, and if the slide itself is wrong you can see that too and dismiss the question. That is the argument for generating from your own lectures rather than buying a bank: your exam is written by the department that made these slides.
The other formats
Word documents, plain text files, text you paste in and a public web page are read the same way, except that none of them has pages of its own, so they are cut into numbered sections of about 2,500 characters and questions cite those. See lecture notes and scanned material.
Works in any language, and quality varies by language: the questions come out in the language of your document, or in the one you pick from a list of every living language. What works in your language, and what does not.
Questions about slide decks
Do I have to export the deck to PDF first?
No. Upload the .pptx and each slide is stored as one slide, so a question cites the slide it came from. Exporting to PDF still works and gives the same questions with page numbers instead of slide numbers.
Are speaker notes used?
No. Only what is on the slides is read. If the notes carry the explanation, paste them in with the paste box or upload the handout as its own document.
What about a slide that is only a picture?
A slide with no text has nothing to quote, so no question can cite it. Text inside a screenshot or a photographed diagram is part of the image and is not read. Slides like that are skipped rather than guessed at.
How much of a course should go in one document?
One deck per document. That keeps per-chapter mastery lined up with lectures, which is what makes the exams weighted toward your weak topics worth sitting.
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