Modality-based question budget allocation favoring mechanism slides over structural slides¶

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Description¶

The system allocates a bounded question budget per slide based on detected modality and pedagogical role. The window planner prompt instructs: "Favor low budgets for title , agenda , transition , administrative , appendix , and r epe at ed recap slides ." and "Favor higher budgets for rich mechanism , comparison , result , diagram , chart , table , or s y n t h e s i s slides ." Budgets range from 0 to 5, and zero questions are explicitly acceptable, so generation effort concentrates on core pedagogical material.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Slide modality types and deck roles must be drawn from the fixed label vocabularies defined in the window planner prompt

Constraints¶

Budgets are capped between 0 and 5 per slide, though the deck synthesis prompt notes some slides may deserve more than three questions

Target Learners¶

undergraduate and graduate students in technical lecture courses

Learning Goals¶

balanced question coverage aligned with instructional importance across heterogeneous slide types

Claims¶

Reconciliation Zero Budgets Structural Slides [+W]

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Salsman, J. (2026). Slide Deck Q&A Quality Assurance App: A Multi-Stage Pipeline for Pedagogical Question Generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26428. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.26428

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Field	Value
`type`	`design`
`id`	`modality-based-question-budget-allocation`
`title`	`Modality-based question budget allocation favoring mechanism slides over structural slides`
`description`	`The system allocates a bounded question budget per slide based on detected modality and pedagogical role.`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-10-11`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `salsman-2026`

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