This week we are releasing two new sets of tools to Blackboard; ‘AI Conversations’ and ‘AI Design Assistant’.
We’ll be presenting the tools at the SOLSTICE and CLT Conference, on the 18th June 2025.
To help you become familiar with these tools I’ve recorded the following videos, and included some additional resources.
Introduction
AI Conversations
Socratic Questioning
- Part 1 – Introduction [1:40]
- Part 2 – Setting up [2:56]
- Part 3 – The Student Experience [1:29]
- Part 4 – Giving Feedback to Students [1:08]
- Part 5 – Ideas for Use [1:26]
- New Feature: Auto-Generate Conversation [2:34]
Role Play
- Part 1 – Introduction [0:47]
- Part 2 – Setting Up [2:05]
- Part 3 – Student Experience [0:51]
- Part 4 – Viewing the Student Answers [1:20]
- Part 5 – Ideas for Use [1:26]
- New Feature: Auto-Generate Conversation [2:34]
Additional Resources
- Blackboard AI Conversation Help Page.
- Auto-generate AI Conversations.
- Blackboard User Group 6 February. Led by Ellis Reeves & Meredith Hawcroft, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA.
- Online role-play environments for higher education, Russell and Shepherd, 2010.
- Using AI Based Chatbot ChatGPT for Practicing Counseling Skills Through Role-Play, Maurya, 2023.
AI Design Assistant
Generate Test Questions
- Part 1 – Setting up [4:08]
- Part 2 – Ideas for use [0:54]
Generate Learning Modules
- Setting up [2:34]
Generate Journal Activities
- Setting up [2:20]
Generate Discussion Activities
- Setting up [2:24]
Generate Assignments
- Setting up [2:25]
Additional Resources
- AI Design Assistant Help Page.
- Writing Multiple-Choice Questions for Higher-level Thinking, by Mike Dickinson.
- Learning and Assessing with Multiple-Choice Questions in College Classrooms, by Jay Parkes, Dawn Zimmaro. 2016.
Image by Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Talking to AI 2.0 / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0
