13 November 2021

Noodle Factory is a firm that aims to help teachers perform teaching duties such as marking and setting assessments by using artificial intelligence. The AI system the firm has invented purports to help teachers create notes, and set and mark simple assessments.

Set up in 2018, Noodle Factory now has about 5,200 students and teachers from secondary schools and institutes of higher learning using its program.

To use the program, teachers drag and drop text into its artificial intelligence engine, and the text is then converted into easily digestible chunks. Users can also feed the engine with information that gets turned into short questions.

The engine uses natural language processing to identify when a student’s answers to open-ended questions are correct or partially acceptable, even if the wording is different. It also offers analytics to teachers, such as the most-asked questions by students.