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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Teachers' Cheat Sheet: Create Better Quizzes Faster with Chain of Density Prompts


Introduction

Teachers and lecturers, we all know making quality quizzes takes a lot of time. Between coming up with questions, writing them clearly, and ensuring they test the right material - it can feel like a never-ending task.

When asking a Large Language Model to generate a quiz from a text, the results can be disappointing. That's why I want to share how I've been using chain of density prompting to generate quiz questions much faster. This technique has been applied earlier to generate better summaries (see Forbes 2023 article), but it can be applied to quizzes as well.


The Teacher and the Tool: A Story of Transformation

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