Instructional Design

AI Design Assistant – Context picker for test question generation – 3900.86

Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

The AI Design Assistant offers inspiration and efficiency when generating test questions. Instructors can now select course items to help define questions. This option improves the alignment of generated questions to course content.

The context picker does not draw context from items that are attached to an Ultra document. Only items that appear on the context picker’s menu are used by the context picker. In future releases, attached files will be included in the context picker.

Image 1. Auto-generate question option in assessment

Auto-generate question option in assessment

Image 2. ‘Select Course Items’

Select 'Course Items'

Image 3. Select course items and then, ‘Select items’

Select course items and then, ‘Select items’

Image 4. Select ‘Generate’ to apply the context to the generation workflow

Select ‘Generate’ to apply the context to the generation workflow

Image 5. Select questions generated and add them to your assessment

Select questions generated and add them to your assessment

For administrators: In Installed Tools, select Settings for AI Design Assistant and Unsplash. The default state is 'off.' When this feature is ‘on,’ you will need to assign the following privileges to course roles as necessary, i.e. Instructor: 'Search for images using Unsplash’ and ‘Use AI features’.

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