A New Way to Learn With Abbey: Auto-Generated Courses and Quizzes
Create quizzes from documents in a few seconds to test yourself. Generate entire courses quickly in collaboration with AI. Browse our collections of high-quality learning content.
I know that for anything I’m trying to understand, Abbey is the best place to do it. Suppose I have a textbook chapter or article that I need to know backwards and forwards: not only can I get a quality summary, but I can auto-generate a quiz in seconds to test myself. I find that I learn more from the quiz in one minute than I do from reading the article in ten. The things you get wrong tend to stick with you better. Quiz generation is just one new feature we’re launching on Abbey this week. In fact, it is not even the most important: for anything you want to book-up on, you can quickly make a curriculum for it on Abbey, which links to curated, high-quality sources, like textbooks and academic articles. The course is totally customizable, and created based on your conversation with AI.
Curriculum Generation
Abbey is not pedagogically prescriptive, so it won’t tell you what you must learn. The best studying follows a personalized structure. Abbey works with you, through natural language, to draft a curriculum based on your background knowledge and the task at hand. The curriculum is then automatically supplemented with sources from Abbey Collections and your uploaded files. For example, a curriculum on basic mechanical engineering might include a unit on joints. There, our permanent joint materials could be supplemented by a research paper you recently read about welding titanium that’s pertinent to your current project. Then after finishing the unit, Abbey can make a quiz directly from the sources in multiple choice or short answer format to test you on what you studied.
All sources are chattable, meaning you can compare relevant concepts without getting bogged down by jargon; just ask it to explain a term. You can make a curriculum for any kind of learning goal: get up-to-speed enough on recent research, pick up a totally new subject, or relearn all of high-school biology. And you can share your favorite courses and take courses made by others. This can be especially powerful inside an organization that needs to incorporate new tech and proprietary processes into onboarding/training courses for new hires.
In the spirit of learning new things, we’ve created an open Curriculum on AI which goes from the first models and their fundamentals to recent breakthroughs that we’re all so familiar with. You can check it out here.
Quizzes
Abbey's Quizzes enhance curricula by offering concise, targeted assessments for any topic. Quizzes are adaptable, suitable for in-depth course materials or for quickly getting up to speed on a single topic with a combination of multiple-choice and short-answer questions. This makes them ideal for professionals and students looking to go deep into a topic or quickly brush up. With specific concepts in mind you can tailor questions to precise ideas in a document or even create a whole quiz from scratch.
In a study group or organizational context the sharing functionality of quizzes enhances collaborative learning and ensures uniform understanding and training, which is particularly useful for new technologies and processes. And, it’s fun to quiz your friends.
Collections
Technical professionals and students and anyone else constantly learning often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content spread across various sources. High-quality sources are required for real learning. Currently, there is an abundance of information which is dispersed across siloed sources like proprietary software, manufacturing processes, data sheets, national codes, online platforms like YouTube and GitHub, and traditional mediums like textbooks, handbooks, and research journals. To ingest this information requires constant attention shifts which is exhausting and hampers the learning process.
Collections is our curation of high-quality, accurate, and comprehensive resources for all fields. We aim to cover every major research area to supplement everyone’s learning experience with clear, detailed, and engaging materials. Biology, chemistry, physics, math, engineering, The National Electrical Code, material data sheets, machining handbooks, etc. As much of Wikipedia as is useful, Want to see something added to Abbey? Request a source here.
The Future
Enhancing collective intelligence is key to advancing humanity, and technical complexity and knowledge gaps slow that advance. By democratizing access to sources of knowledge through Collections and building AI tools like Curriculum that can reason through complex technical processes, we aim to break down these barriers. Whether you’re an engineer with advanced design challenges or a researcher navigating massive data sets and new nomenclature, everyone needs to tackle harder problems. AI-assisted tools that understand complex technical materials let employees get smarter, record their wisdom, stay on top of new research, and put the pieces of the puzzle together.
In our technical world continuous learning is a necessity that can be leveraged into an advantage. Onboarding, real-world learning, and a powerful knowledge base could all use the same underlying sources. Abbey equips everyone with the resources they need to grow in industry and role-specific ways. We want to build a future where everyone, regardless of their field or level of expertise, has permanent access to tailored educational resources.