LTKA-Bot is a virtual teaching assistant chatbot designed to support course activities and automate processes to improve education efficiency. It was built using the Hubot chat engine and Telegram frontend. LTKA-Bot has modules to manage tasks, groups, submissions, and other course elements. An initial deployment showed it can streamline in-class and offline activities as well as generate reports. Overall, LTKA-Bot demonstrates the potential for chatbots to automate education and lift it to the next level.

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LTKA-Bot
Bringing Automation to
the Classroom
A ChatOps-Based Approach
Eueung Mulyana, Rifqy Hakimi, Hendrawan
https://telematika.org/remark/ltkabot
ICWT2018 | CC BY-SA

2. Outline
Introduction
Design & Implementation
Deployment Study & Result
Conclusion
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3. LTKA-Bot
Introduction
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Introduction
Background
Technology Advances
Changes and Dynamics in Educational
Demands & Regulations
Accreditations e.g. ABET
Resources Trade-o & E ciency

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Introduction
LTKA-Bot
Virtual Teaching Assistant (Command-
Based Chat-Bot)
Supports Course Activities
Course-Related Showcases
Automatic Report/ Document Generation
e.g. for Accreditation Purposes

6. Elements of Course Design
Ref: [Felder] 6 / 22

7. Design & Implementation
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Design &
Implementation
Module-Based Design
Hubot Chat Engine
Telegram Frontend
Actions & Work ows

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Modules

10. LTKA-Bot System Architecture 10 / 22

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Example of
Work ows
Task Assignment

12. Diagram of Actions
Group Module 12 / 22

13. Diagram of Actions
Submission Module 13 / 22

14. Deployment Study & Result
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Deployment
Study & Result
Report Documents (In-Progress)
In-Class Activities
O -Classs Activities

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Example of
User-Bot
Interaction
Group Module

17. Example of Chat Sessions
In Group and Private Chatrooms 17 / 22

18. Conclusion
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Remarks &
Conclusion
Addressed aspects: design
approach, usecases and
some lessons learned from
current trial and deployment
Introduction of LTKA-Bot, a ChatOps based virtual assistant that
can help and facilitate lecturers and students in all course-
related activities such as: task assignment, submission, group,
logbook, session, outcomes/measures, and scoring
management.
LTKA-Bot has shown the potential in
streamlining and automating many
processes and thus lifting up higher
education to the next level.

20. Refs/Resources
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21. Selected References
1. R. M. Felder and R. Brent, "Designing and teaching courses to satisfy the ABET engineering
criteria," Journal of Engineering Education, 92.1, pp. 7-25, 2003.
2. HUBOT, [Online]. Available: https://hubot.github.com/. [Accessed: 10- Jun- 2018].
Credits
Icons made by Those Icons from Flaticon
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ENDEueung Mulyana, Rifqy Hakimi, Hendrawan
https://telematika.org/remark/ltkabot
ICWT2018 | CC BY-SA