Basically, I think the product idea is very good. OPENeLMS (https://openelms.ai/), for example, follows a similar approach. A decisive advantage of uPresenter over OPENeLMS is the good fit with ActivePresenter. An important disadvantage, however, is that it is not yet possible with uPresenter to create content using AI on the basis of uploaded PDFs (unless I have overlooked this possibility). In higher education, it is essential to develop content based on scientific articles and also to cite the sources. Creating content using AI based on general internet content is not common here. I hope that the creation of content using AI based on own documents will be integrated into the product.
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Hi Matthias,
Thank you for your kind words for uPresenter.
I appreciate your feedback regarding generating presentations from our own documents. And I myself do agree with you on this feature request, as it will help build presentations more closely to our available materials.
Please rest assured that this request has been forwarded to our internal team and we will consider implementing it for the official release or future upgrade.
In the meantime, I hope you will continue experimenting this beta version and contribute more requests or feedback. And, we much appreciate if you can share with your network about our app uPresenter so that more users can reach us and give us feedback to improve.
Thank you again and kind regards,
Clementine
Matthias,
I have been distracted for a few days - work caught up with me! But I have been pottering along, building a somewhat extensive presentation framed originally from the outline I added to Upresenter. It will, of course, move into Activepresenter before I then add voice-over. Although the outer frame is elegantly produced (sometimes strange faces in the background) in terms of higher education, one might say it does not cut the mustard. The requirement for integrating it with module material, the requirement for adding references and highlighting particular debates potentially from this or that article, is something which has to be added. However, I experimented with your idea of taking an article and then converting it into a potential slide deck. - This can actually be created through some of the AI platforms if you have a subscription. For an experiment, I inputted an academic article and tasked the AI with generating a slide deck that could be utilised by a presenter for exposition. It generated eight concise slides, which would have facilitated the presenter in discussing various topics.
A note on the journey to Active presenter - before exporting the slides to pdf - you need to make sure all the text is on the page. Once exported - you need to OCR the pdf - to allow the text to be further edited. For ‘presentation purposes’ - huge paragraphs of text are not suitable - if the slides are to be distributed as pdf, they might be left in their verbose state. Could UPresenter having produced the original slides - be then instructed to say - summarise the text on slide X - or reduce to say 4 bullet points? This is what I am doing manually utilising the overall storyboard structure - and perhaps freed from the worry of using copyright images.
But again - you seem to have pinpointed an issue that is affecting those in HE.
John
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Hi John,
Thank you for your detailed follow-up.
I have noted down your feedback and will forward them to our internal team.
Regarding your third question, we have just updated the app with new features (dark theme, updated AI assistant, friend referral with succesful signup to get more 200 credits), so you can achieve that.
You can choose Make shorter or Custom prompt to turn content into bullets.
Let me know how it goes.
BR,
Clementine
Hi Clementine and John,
Thank you very much for your replies. In the university sector, the requirement I mentioned is indeed indispensable. Without this feature, it is almost impossible to use uPresenter in this sector. That’s why I really hope for an integration.
It would be ideal if the AI chat with a document always displayed the quoted text passages as well. You can then compare the AI-generated text directly with the quoted text and make corrections if necessary. Examples of this procedure are
https://beta.monic.ai/ (especially for creating quizzes)
What would also be necessary for the academic field (I just remembered) is the export in SCORM format.
Matthias
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Hi Matthias,
Thank you for your clear references.
Regarding the quoted text passages as you requested, I’m not sure if this feature could be implemented soon, but our team will surely look into it and consider.
We have also noted down your requests on the exporting format.
Keep discussing and suggesting your ideas, as we really appreciate your effort and contribution 
BR,
Clementine
Clementine:
Been busy with this and that for a few days - but checked in. Had to quickly build a new idea to test the Ask AI link - it works neatly - and then I tried to look to other creations and see how I could edit them.
Thinking of what Matthias was saying - an independent AI is not likely to gel with the module materials - but the Upresenter can produce a series of interesting ‘base’ elements - which can be used to start the storyboard of a presentation. Again why marrying production with Activepresenter is useful. - You need to do that if one aims to produce MP4 or HTML5 productions.
John
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Please feel free to test more with the Ask AI feature, John.
Also, we are working on the new feature: Create from documents, so hope that when we update it, you will continue providing us feedback. We will inform once this feature is ready.
And, our team has well taken note of your request on integrating uPresenter with ActivePresenter. We will look into it and see what we can do.
Thank you, John. Much appreciate your time and effort for uPresenter 