Help Your Students Supercharge Their Study Habits with NotebookLM: See 5 Key Use Cases

In this tutorial, the management professor Boris Nikolaev demonstrates five powerful use cases of Google’s NotebookLM, an AI-driven research assistant designed to enhance learning and study habits. Boris is one of my colleagues here at Colorado State University and I have learned so much about AI from him. I recommend you subscribe to his YouTube channel where you can learn about how to use AI tools to support your teaching and research.

NotebookLM allows users to upload personal documents—like lecture notes, PDFs, and web articles—which the model then becomes “expert” in, reducing errors and providing more personalized, reliable responses. The speaker outlines key features such as summarizing documents, creating study quizzes, generating podcasts from materials, and preparing for exams by organizing notes and sources. With inline citations and an easy-to-use interface, NotebookLM offers an efficient way to navigate and understand complex information, although the speaker notes its limitations, like occasional hallucinations or biases. The tool is especially helpful for exam preparation and project research, providing reliable content directly from uploaded sources. See video below.

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