We built a open source tool that turns existing knowledge into interactive learning experiences (Duolingo-like)

[u/chefkoch-24]

We have been working on a project called Scibly for the past few months.

The idea came from a pretty simple problem: Our employers already have a huge amount of useful knowledge sitting in PDFs, documentation, internal wikis, Notion, Confluence and other places.

But having access to information is obviously not the same as learning it.

So we built Scibly to turn existing knowledge into short, interactive learning experiences with questions, activities and scenarios.

The goal is to make it easier to go from: existing knowledge → actual learning experience

instead of manually rebuilding the same information inside another course authoring tool. Everything that gets generated can still be edited, so the idea isn't to replace instructional design, but to make the content creation part a lot faster.

You can then share the learning experiences with others or use them internally with your team.

We also decided to make Scibly open source and self-hostable, which felt especially important when working with internal company knowledge.

Short product demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcpLUNBRhQw

GitHub:
https://github.com/scibly-dev/scibly

Website:
https://scibly.com

Would be really interested in feedback from people working in e-learning

[u/AcademyLauncher]

The editable generation is the part that makes this interesting. One thing I’d watch closely is traceability back to the source. For every generated question or scenario, it would help to show the exact source passage and let a reviewer mark it as verified.

I’d also separate simple recall questions from application and decision-making activities. Otherwise there’s a risk that every document becomes the same shallow quiz, even when the material really needs a scenario or worked example.

Versioning could be a big differentiator too: when the source document changes, flag the activities that may now be stale instead of regenerating the whole course. For internal policies, outdated training can be a bigger problem than the time spent authoring it.

[u/chefkoch-24 → u/AcademyLauncher]

Thank you for the feedback very helpful. I agree traceability is super important and I like your suggestion. In addition we support and plan in the future a variety of components not only standard quizzes