Virtual Teaching Assistant

An AI-powered assistant to help students with course materials and questions.

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Implementation Pathways

Explore different technical approaches to build your virtual TA

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Data Sourcing

Scraping the discourse forum and course website for the content.

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Embeddings

Creating embeddings for the data.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about the Virtual TA project.

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Project Blueprint

Starting point implementation of the Virtual TA system

This is only a starting point and will consume significant credits(in some cases all the credits and none left) if implemented as the full project. Make sure you understand the code before using it.

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Pre-Scraped Data

Access ready-to-use data from the TDS course and Discourse forum

Use this repository for raw posts and markdown data if you're having trouble with scraping

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Important Warning About Pre-Scraped Data

Use the pre-scraped data at your own risk. You are responsible for ensuring:

All data is correct and formatted as required for your implementation
The data is complete and covers all necessary course materials and forum posts
Your solution properly processes and utilizes the data

There is no guarantee on the completeness or correctness of this data. You might not receive marks if the data is not used properly and correctly in your submission.

Just A STARTING POINT

This is just a basic starting points for the way to do the project and not complete and even the best way to do the project, please make sure that all the data is present, correctly formatted, and used in your application.
Do not think this is the complete solution to the project and you will get full marks.