A format to translate lecture slides into a semi-booklike format has been developed and refined over the recent years. An example can be seen here:

https://dwi.lva.tuwien.ac.at/dwi20221117.html

Slidebooks are created using a convoluted pipeline of processing steps, from the creation of slides in Apple Keynote, the annotation of these slides using the »presenter notes« functionality in Keynote, the extraction of all content from Keynote using AppleScript, ImageMagick and curl and the encoding into a text-only format, to a python script that creates an HTML + javascript-file that can then be uploaded to a web server.

This pipeline is not only relatively slow, unreliable and error-prone, it is also a nightmare to maintain and update. The goal of this master thesis for one person is to take everything that has been learned so far, completely rethink the process and create a »service« that makes it easy to create slideBooks.

In addition, new elements for SlideBooks that enhance the interactivity (like quizzes, crosslinks between slidebooks, gameful elements) should be devised, designed and prototyped or implemented.

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