Inside Presto

Presto AI is made for teachers and students to use in very similar ways

4 simple steps to using Presto

STEP 1 – Put your text into Presto

Free Account: Paste 500 Words of English language text into Presto from anywhere on the Web. Premium Account: Load your PDF, Docx, Google Doc directly into Presto. There is no limit if you cut and paste. We recommend a maximum topic length of 2000 words for the best outcome.

Some tips about what to expect:

What Presto does

Presto generates questions that ask your learners to recall facts, define words or phrases, describe main ideas or causal relationships. Presto also creates questions which check a student’s comprehension of the text.

Presto’s preferred question format is short answer, which requires students give a constructed response rather than a selected response.

All questions are auto-grading using AI, not simple matching. That means we understand that if you say ‘Herman Ebinghouse’ you mean ‘Hermann Ebbinghaus’, and that ‘Nile’, ‘the Nile’ and ‘Nile river’ are all acceptable alternatives to ‘The Nile river’.

What Presto doesn’t do yet (but is learning to do)

We are working on training Presto’s AI to generate and auto-grade long answer questions and questions which test higher order thinking.

Content that works best

Presto works best with structured, factual content. Basically, if it’s straightforward instructional content, it's the perfect source text for Presto. Try to keep your text on one significant topic. A text on three significant chemical reactions, for example, makes AI thin out possible questions as there is a range of topics to choose from. Ideally, 2000 max characters about a topic or storyline will work well.

Content that might not work as well

Presto will do its best with any content, however content that has the following features may not work as well:

• Is in a narrative or blog format

• Includes convoluted sentences

• Is jargon heavy

• Contains complex nested numbering or formatting

To be able to use as wide a range of content as possible, Presto does allow you to quickly edit or remove any questions that are not quite up to standard. You can also round out your Presto quiz by adding your own questions.

STEP 2 – Presto builds your Quizzes and Study Notes

Presto automatically creates study notes and quizzes from the content you supply. Presto reads, thinks and creates a series of short answer questions and Gap questions. You can choose between two question types as a Free user. With a Premium account, you will soon have more choices and control over the types of question modalities that Presto creates.

Presto Question Types include:

• Short Answer questions – created by Presto from the text. These questions auto-grade

• Fill in the Gaps – perfect for comprehension questions. Auto-graded

• More question types are coming, but these two are the best styles for revision.

STEP 3 – Study Notes, Quizzes, Flashcards and Videos are ready in seconds

Presto creates the entire study pack in one click

• Study notes link back to the text

• All quiz questions auto-answer and self grade

• Flash Cards flip and test your memory, with the ability for spaced repetition

• Videos from YouTube Edu are linked. We pick the most popular videos that match the keywords and question. This saves so much time finding the right types of videos!

STEP 4 – Assign to the Class; Share links with friends via Social Media

Presto is deployed to students in several ways:

Assign and deploy your Presto

Presto can be assigned to any number of students, a class or cohort. There is no need to set up classes and all the fuss that goes with that. Presto simply opens up sharing in very simple ways, working with the systems you have now. Students can register or access Presto in fast mode, without needing any more than an access code.

There are multiple ways you can share –

1. Sharing with Google Classroom – Presto posts a link into an Activity in Classroom

2. Sharing with Teams – Presto posts a link into a channel for students to launch

3. QR Code – Students can take a picture of the QR code on their phone, and they will be taken straight to the web online Presto Quiz

4. Teachers can post a link to students in any chat which takes students straight to the quiz online. This might be a link in the LMS, Kahoot, SeeSaw, Zoom or Skype

5. Teachers can email a link to students

6. Teachers can link to Presto via Canvas or LTI based LMS systems

7. Quizzes can be uploaded into Canvas and LMS systems using our QTI capability.

Monitoring

Presto has LIVE monitoring built-in when Presto is connected to a group of students. As students use Presto their progress is monitored as they move through the quiz, question by question, answer by answer.

See Live Monitor and Fast Marking for more information.