ChatbotLLM - Training Educational Chatbots on the Materials Uploaded by Teachers

This paper presents an IEEE Northern Canada Section's Capstone Project Award winning research project, ChatbotLLM, a system to train educational chatbots on the materials uploaded by teachers. Using ChatbotLLM, teachers can create a course, choose the desired configuration options, upload the materials, and start to train an educational chatbot on the uploaded course materials. Once a chatbot is finished training, both teachers and students can test and interact with the chatbot with their browsers as well as access it through any other available client applications. This research aims to overcome shortcomings of educational technologies using generative AI, mainly bias and hallucinations. Currently an evaluation is underway using a university level course at UK to understand and compare user perceptions towards responses provided by ChatbotLLM chatbots and other generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.