Luna - digitalisation made easy
In the sixth semester, there was a cooperation with IoT students at Aalen University of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Hans Krämer, Prof. Dr. Markus Weinberger, Prof. Jens Döring6. Semester - Kübra Terzi, Helene Kwedi-Penda, Aybullah Bayram, Maren Schlatter
Problemspace
In the digital age, chaos often reigns when it comes to the topic of digitising learning materials. Often the challenge for teachers is to create/provide suitable digital teaching content without much effort. Most digitisation options are too time-consuming and too strenuous. Teachers often need training to understand the technical background.
Teachers go through a complex preparation process every day. The compilation of teaching materials and the subsequent digitisation takes several hours every day. Different articles are copied out of individual textbooks, printed out and attached to paper with tape, then scanned (digitised) again.
The creation of digital school materials for online teaching is time-consuming and does not correspond to the current digital age.
What we want is: A simple and straightforward teaching material creation process where digital design and participation in the creation/editing of digital teaching materials (worksheets, book pages, etc.) is also possible for non-technical people.
= reduction of preparation time for online teaching, improvement of technical know-how without complicated training.
Topic
Developing a tool to convert analogue teaching materials into the digital environment.
Solution
"Luna" is a browser tool for school teachers to convert analogue working materials into digital teaching materials and make them editable. Elements on the analogue paper are to be automatically made digitally operable through OCR (optical character recognition) and deep learning. The tool contributes to a general reduction of preparation time in the (online) classroom, as opposed to the current analogue preparation process of the teaching material. We achieve this by effectively and efficiently integrating layouts into our product.
Scenario
In order to present the problems and the use of “Luna” in a more precise and comprehensible way, we have created an explanatory video with After Effects, which explains the problems and the subsequent solution (Luna).
Outcome
The resulting “Luna” desktop application has different point of views: the students’ and teachers’ perspective.
Within our project, we focused on the teachers’ perspective and worked it out in detail. From the home page to the editing tool within the desktop application.
To give you a brief insight, here are sample screens of the most important screens of the teacher's perspective:
On the starting page of Luna, you can sort and organize/share files with your colleagues.
Luna provides finished templates for lesson materials, which can be used by creating interactive worksheets. The user can decide by themselves wether to use finished templates or create their own template in the editor.
If selecting the finished template option “Luna” automatically scans texts and illustrated elements on the worksheet with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Deep Learning to then insert these elements into the recommended template as a preview.
In the editor of “Luna” you can effectively create parabolas or other mathematical shapes.
Functions in the editor for example are:
Import/add image, audio and video files
Adding textfiles for students to write in
Adding interactive features (Check boxes, questionaires, tables,…)
Adding text