How could We Use Google Assistant to Make Learning Fun
In my previous post, I discussed how my family is using Google Home to spend quality time together. We enjoyed so many things together such as listening to stories, playing trivia quiz, listening to jokes and host of other things. We could also ask for meaning for a word that we didn’t know, but my son didn’t want to proactively ask for meaning. I want him to learn better vocabulary, but the existing vocabulary quizzes are SAT level and he is in sixth grade.
So I wondered whether I could make a custom quiz for him. To my pleasant surprise google has made it very easy to create quiz either for personal consumption or for the world at large. Actually the official terminology is testing; there is no option labeled as personal consumption. The main point is that when you make it available for testing, it becomes available on devices associated with your account. So when you develop a quiz, you could test it on your own account. But who stops you to stay in testing mode for ever and keep modifying for your hearts content!
So how could we create a quiz? Like me, you would be thinking that it would require you to learn programming, or learn advance skills such as machine learning or artificial intelligence techniques or some amount of natural language processing. Well, all those things are used to create and run the quiz, but we don’t need to do that. Nice and smart folks at google have already done the hard work so that we could just use simple tools and enjoy the outcome.
We just need to create a Google sheet and the template of the sheet is also provided by google. There are 5 columns, first is the question column, second is the correct answer column, third and fourth are incorrect option columns, and fifth is the additional information which would be spoken with the correct answer. The comments in the google sheet also tell you that you could add additional columns for options but I didn’t try that.
If everything goes well, google will create your quiz and voila, you could run it in the device that is associated with your account. You could also publish it for the world, but I guess that would require many iterations before you would want to do that.
For detailed step by step instructions, visit the following guide: Build Actions for the Google Assistant (Level 1)
So I wondered whether I could make a custom quiz for him. To my pleasant surprise google has made it very easy to create quiz either for personal consumption or for the world at large. Actually the official terminology is testing; there is no option labeled as personal consumption. The main point is that when you make it available for testing, it becomes available on devices associated with your account. So when you develop a quiz, you could test it on your own account. But who stops you to stay in testing mode for ever and keep modifying for your hearts content!
So how could we create a quiz? Like me, you would be thinking that it would require you to learn programming, or learn advance skills such as machine learning or artificial intelligence techniques or some amount of natural language processing. Well, all those things are used to create and run the quiz, but we don’t need to do that. Nice and smart folks at google have already done the hard work so that we could just use simple tools and enjoy the outcome.
We just need to create a Google sheet and the template of the sheet is also provided by google. There are 5 columns, first is the question column, second is the correct answer column, third and fourth are incorrect option columns, and fifth is the additional information which would be spoken with the correct answer. The comments in the google sheet also tell you that you could add additional columns for options but I didn’t try that.
If everything goes well, google will create your quiz and voila, you could run it in the device that is associated with your account. You could also publish it for the world, but I guess that would require many iterations before you would want to do that.
For detailed step by step instructions, visit the following guide: Build Actions for the Google Assistant (Level 1)
posted by Dinesh Kaushal at 3:03 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home