Some quick experiments, based on a conversation with some colleagues before the break. As we head into IBDP exam review season, teachers and students are looking for practice questions and will run out of past papers.

These two Poe bots are designed to use a screenshot of a question from IBDP Maths or Sciences and generate a worked markscheme and five other very similar questions. The idea is on-the-spot differentiation for students (for example if they make a mistake on a question and need some more practice).

If you want to try:
🟰 IBDP Maths Question Maker: https://poe.com/IBMath_QuestionMaker
🧪 IBDP Sciences Question Maker: https://poe.com/IBDP_Sciences_QMaker

The don’t make new graphs or charts, but might be useful for practising more calculations or equation-based questions. It took a while to get them working with presenting mathematical/chemical notation properly, but seems to work.

Here’s an older one: a PZ Thinking Routines coach/selector. Think about the topic and thinking moves you want students to make, and it will try to help you select routines, make them work and adapt with AI. Thinking Routines are great during exam review time to help students make connections and clarify their reasoning.
🤔 https://poe.com/ThinkingRoutinesBot

Using Claude Code to Make a Citation Manager

In another experiment, I spent hours sorting over 1,100 references in Paperpile over the break (tags etc)*. Seeing all the examples of Claude Code making Chrome extensions, I had a go at making a bibtex-grabber that I could use to capture adn edit references while I read them on the same page (sometimes the PaperPile auto-capture misses data and I need to switch between screens).

It will try (not very hard) to capture reference data from a site/paper and has a popup window to edit. Then the bibtex can be copied and pasted into the reference manager. It’s a bit ropey, but means I can edit with the page/file still open and double-check in PaperPile later.
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/SJTYLR/bibtex-grabber

*This is what it looks like…