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 Module structure in Blackboard?

1. In an empty course, select Auto-Generate Modules. If you already have content in your course, Auto-Generate Modules is an option in the Create Item menu.
   
2. When you select Auto-Generate Modules, each generated module comes with a name, image, and description. You can turn off the generation of images or descriptions if you choose.
   
3. You have several ways to customize the learning modules that the AI Design Assistant generates.
   1. You can select which course items you’d like the AI Design Assistant to provide context for new learning modules. Select Select course items to start. Select any course content item to include it in the context for your learning module. When you finish choosing items for context, select Select items to return to module 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.
   2. Enter a description (limited to 2000 characters) to narrow the focus of the modules
   3. Select a prefix for the module titles (Unit, Module, Chapter, etc).
   4. Choose whether to include AI-generated images for the modules.
      • We advise against using the AI-generated images. We saw a variety of issues including culturally inappropriate images, disproportional body parts in people, and incorrect/odd images.
      • Please use image files selected from Unsplash, provide image files, or refrain from using any images instead.
   5. Adjust the complexity of the modules’ focus
      • There are ten levels included in the complexity level slider:
        • • Early primary school
          • Late primary school
          • Early middle school
          • Late middle school
          • Early high school
          • Late high school
          • Undergraduate lower division
          • Undergraduate upper division
          • Graduate level
          • Advanced PhD level
   6. Select the number of modules to generate
   7. Select Advanced options to change the output language
4. Once you’ve finalized your settings, select Generate. Choose the modules you’d like to add to your course, then select Add to Course.
   
5. You can edit modules manually once they are in your course.

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

• 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.
• By entering logically formatted module titles and descriptions to the “Description”, and selecting the corresponding “Number of Learning Modules”, AI can generate relatively usable modules with fewer attempts.
• While multiple attempts are required to get the desired number of modules, reducing “Number of Learning Modules” may result in fewer attempts to generate desired modules.
• We advise against using the AI-generated images. We saw a variety of issues including culturally inappropriate images, disproportional body parts in people, and incorrect/odd images. Please replace it with image files selected from Unsplash, provide image files, or refrain from using any images.