IBL Book Course Generation
Upload IBL books and generate related online courses with sections, slides, and questions organized for inquiry-based learning.
CS 491/492 Senior Design Project
Ubien
An AI-supported platform for turning books into engaging inquiry-based courses.
Project Overview
Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) encourages students to work through guiding questions and build understanding through discovery. Ubien brings that learning flow into an online course experience with uploaded books, guided questions, animated avatars, and progress tracking.
Everyone can upload IBL books to generate related online courses. Ubien also supports regular books by converting them into IBL-style learning material and creating a related course inside the app.
Feature Areas
Any Book to IBL Course
Upload regular books, convert them into IBL-style books, and create related courses directly inside the app.
Animated Avatars and Voice
Male and female animated avatars appear on slides and questions, with Amazon Polly text-to-speech making course material more engaging.
Guidance and Progress
Guided question support helps learners move through activities, while progress tracking shows completed sections, slides, and questions.
Why Choose Ubien?
Compared with LMS Platforms
Tools like Moodle and Canvas are strong for course management, grading, and administration. Ubien focuses on transforming book content into IBL-style course structure and fixing parsing issues in the same workflow.
Compared with Course Authoring Tools
Tools like Articulate Rise are strong for building polished training content. Ubien is optimized for converting source books into inquiry-based slides and questions, then refining structure through split-and-correct editing.
Compared with AI Tutor Tools
AI tutors like Khanmigo are great for conversational support. Ubien combines guided help with course generation, slide-level progress tracking, and avatar-led delivery from slide content.
Compared with Course Catalog Platforms
Catalog platforms like Coursera are strong for ready-made course access. Ubien is built for people who want to upload their own books, convert them to IBL flow, and control course structure directly.
Technical Direction
Ubien combines PDF and book processing, AI-assisted course generation, guided question support, avatar presentation, Amazon Polly text-to-speech, and web-based progress tracking.
Project reports, team information, and reserved document links are available on the About and Documents page.
Latest Updates
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Feature Update: Turning Any Book into an IBL Course
Ubien now supports regular book uploads in addition to IBL books. This expands the earlier flow where the app focused on parsing books that were already writ...
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Feature Update: Slide Correction for Parsing Errors
Ubien now supports correction workflows for courses that were parsed incorrectly. If a course import creates slides with wrong boundaries or mixed content, u...
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Feature Update: Animated Avatars with Voice and Emotion
Ubien includes animated avatars that make course content more engaging during slides and questions. The system supports multiple avatar styles, including mal...
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Feature Focus: Progress Tracking
Progress tracking is a practical feature area for making longer IBL courses easier to use. Learners should be able to see what they have completed, where the...
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Feature Focus: Guided AI Support
Ubien includes guided AI support as a feature area for helping learners work through IBL questions. The intended behavior is different from a generic answer ...