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by seany62 385 days ago
Great idea! Will it highlight parts where the professor says something like "this is important and will be on the exam...". All of the information on the exam (which dictates the majority of your score in the class at most US universities) must be conveyed to the student one way or the other (worksheets, lectures. etc.). A cool runoff would be an "AI Exam Prep" which guessed what would be on the exam, based on previous exams and where the info came from
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Great point! Right now it doesn’t flag “this will be on the exam” moments, but I’ve been thinking about it. Since we have the full transcript, detecting key phrases like that is definitely possible.

Flashcards are on the way too — and tying them to “likely exam content” would be super useful. Appreciate the idea!

To take this further, allowing the user to define hot items or subjects might be better. For example, history tests often ask questions about when or where an event happened. Imagine if we could request that we want a list of dates and associated events.
That makes sense, will consider this. Thanks for the feedback