Guest talk with Prof. Dr. Alexander Pretschner, TUM, Chair for Software and Systems Engineering

April 1, 2025

The TUMTutor system allows students to ‘talk’ to a lecture anonymously and be ‘quizzed’ by the lecture. Lecturers can see which questions and groups of questions are asked and can thus immediately respond to obviously difficult or misunderstood learning content. Originally created as part of a software development project at TUM and then further developed by five students, it was launched at TUM in mid-November and now has more than 3.000 users who have answered more than 100.000 quizzes and conducted more than 50.000 chat interactions.

An effectiveness evaluation is to follow in March. For this reason, the accompanying research project AIffectiviness will be launched under the leadership of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation, in which the effectiveness of selected courses (5-10 per institution) will be analysed with four HAWs, four universities and the Bavarian Virtual University (vhb).

At our Guest talk, Prof. Dr. Alexander Pretschner will present the TUMTutor, its features and provide insights about the current use of the tool at TUM.

Video Demo

A video demo is available here:
https://onetutor-ai.notion.site/#1a6cc726cd3080e5b2ede1856929d6f3

Alexander Pretschner is a Professor of Software & Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the spokesperson for the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), and the Scientific Director of the Research and Transfer Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software-Intensive Systems (fortiss). Previously, he was a Professor at KIT and the University of Kaiserslautern, a Group Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, and a Senior Engineer at ETH Zurich. He earned his Ph.D. at TUM, his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas, and his degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen.

Feature image by Creator: Brian J. Matis