AI Assistant VU Education Lab
A Chrome extension that turns any web page into teaching material: a summary, quiz questions, an explanation pitched at a level, or ideas for an activity.
The VU Education Lab AI Assistant is a browser extension that turns the text of the page you are on into teaching material. You click the extension icon, pick a tool, and copy the result into Canvas, your slides or a document.
Advantages
- Summarize gives a concise summary with learning objectives and discussion questions
- Quiz produces multiple-choice, true/false or short-answer questions, with explanations
- Explain pitches a difficult topic at beginner, intermediate or advanced level
- Teaching offers ideas for a lecture, a discussion, an activity, an assessment or an essay
- Custom for anything outside that, with templates to choose from
- Works on most sites — news articles, Wikipedia, academic journals — and in Dutch and English
Points to note
- A VU CTL pilot, for VU staff only
- Chrome, Brave and Edge only; Firefox is not supported
- Sign in with your VU Google account (@vu.nl); a personal Gmail will not do
- Page text goes to the server to be processed and is discarded immediately afterwards; nothing is stored
- Runs on Azure OpenAI under the VU’s Microsoft agreement: processing inside the EU, and your data does not train models
- After a spell of disuse the server has to wake up; try again half a minute later
- The source code is open on GitHub