Coursera, Inc.

Jacob K Samuelson

Mustafa Furniturewala

Jiquan Ngiam

Donald Geoffrey Schuller

Brice Benjamin Pollock

Myra Liu

According to an implementation, a system includes an online education platform including a content manager configured to provide an authoring tool on a computing device associated with a learner of an online course. The authoring tool is configured to provide at least one user interface for creation of a learner-created question for an assessment for the online course. The content manager includes an education content converter configured to convert the learner-created question from a first format to a second format. The online education platform including an assessment bank configured to store the learner-created question, as well as other learner-created questions and instructor-created questions. The online education platform including a content selector configured to select a plurality of questions from the assessment bank for the assessment for the online course.

User generated content within an online education platform

In one general aspect, a method for generating a note for a video of an online course can include providing a video of an online course for display in a user interface on a display device included in a computing device, providing a transcript of the video of the online course synchronously with the providing of the video of the online course, the transcript being displayed in the user interface with the video of the online course, receiving an indication of a selection of a save-a-note element included in the user interface, and in response to receiving the indication of the save-a-note element, creating a note for the video of the online course. The note can include an indicator of a frame in the video when a particular phrase included in the transcript of the video is spoken, the particular phrase, and a screen shot of the frame.

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Redwood City, CA, United States of America

Jacob K Samuelson