Meet Lampo, QuizPilot's visual teacher
On 30 September, Lampo went live for every QuizPilot learner. Type a question on any topic, or send a photo of a homework problem, and Lampo works through it on a board, drawing and labelling as it goes, while explaining each step out loud. Lessons come in Uzbek, Russian and English, and Lampo is free to try.
The idea came up on 27 September. Two days later Lampo was in the app.
How a lesson is made
A lesson is not a video. The model writes it as a short script: what to draw on each step (axes, points, a curve, a label, a picture for real-world topics) and what to say while drawing it. The app plays that script live on a sheet of paper, and a voice reads each line as the pen moves.
The model decides what goes on the board. Our own code decides where it goes: it keeps a label off the curve it names, keeps notes beside a photo instead of on top of it, and stops an arrow at the edge of a word instead of inside it.
When a lesson ends, Lampo asks the student a question about it. Answering, or asking anything else, starts a follow-up, which Lampo answers the same way. Any lesson can be shared as a link.
The first week
By 7 October, about 1,800 people had asked Lampo for more than 2,600 lessons and followed up more than 2,300 times. Nearly 200 lessons were shared as links. About 19 in 20 lessons were asked in Uzbek.
What is still rough
The boards are not clean yet. In an audit of 511 lessons from early October, almost a third of boards had a line drawn through a word. A fix on 6 October brought that down to about one in five.
The hardest case is a line the model draws after a word is already on the board. The student has read the word by then, so moving it is not an option, and that part is still open.