What is Blackboard’s AI Design Assistant?

• Generate Modules and Course Structures
• Generate Journal, Discussion and Assignment topics
• Generate Rubrics
• Generate Test Questions
• Generate Question Banks
• Generate or Find Relevant Images

Is the AI Design Assistant Safe to Use?

• humans in control,
• fairness,
• privacy,
• security, and
• safety.

How do I generate Rubrics in Blackboard?

1. Rubric generation is an option everywhere that you can create a rubric (from an assignment, graded journal/discussion, or from Gradebook). Select Generate to start.
2. You have several ways to customize the rubrics that the AI Design Assistant generates.
   1. Enter a description (limited to 2000 characters) to narrow the focus of the rubric
   2. Select the rubric type: percentage, percentage range, points, point range, or no points
   3. Adjust the complexity of the rubric
      1. There are ten levels included in the complexity level slider:
         1. Early primary school
         2. Late primary school
         3. Early middle school
         4. Late middle school
         5. Early high school
         6. Late high school
         7. Undergraduate lower division
         8. Undergraduate upper division
         9. Graduate level
         10. Advanced PhD level
   4. Define the number of columns and rows
   5. Select Advanced options to change the output language
3. Optionally, you can select which course items you’d like the AI Design Assistant to provide context for new rubrics. Select Select course items to start. Select any course content item to include it in the context for your rubric. When you finish choosing items for context, select Select items to return to rubric generation.
   1. Innovative Learning also recommends using the Context Picker to ensure that the AI is using the course items that are most relevant to generate information from.

Once you’ve finalized your settings, select Generate. If the rubric meets your needs, select Continue to edit the rubric, or continue altering the description and/or complexity to improve the rubric by re-generating it. Make sure you review the rubric for accuracy. You can also further edit your rubric to better fit your teaching style and goals. Learn more about editing your rubrics manually.

What are Innovative Learning’s recommendations for using the module generation feature in Blackboard’s AI Design Assistant?

• Innovative Learning recommends creating a rubric for every graded item. Rubrics allow teachers to grade each student consistently and provides an accessible and clear method to ensure students know what they are being graded on.
• By providing a properly formatted description and giving the associated number of rows, the AI generates a reasonable rubric, so please make sure to give relevant and detailed information to help the AI Design Assistant to generate an effective rubric. However, it may require multiple attempts to get a usable rubric.
• Sometimes it can generate an “undefined” description, and the percentage can be oddly distributed such as 100%, 8% and 10%. The layout could get broken as well.
  • When situations like these arise, you must provide a new and/or better description, adjust the complexity level, then regenerate, or manually change the rubric yourself.