sBlackboard Blackboard now hosts a persona AI feature that allows students to dialog with a persona that instructors can create. For instance, if you would like your students to hold an interview with a particular famous expert, you can build a role play interview or set up a series of socratic questions.
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Once you click on AI Conversation, the following page will appear (see image below). Hover over the Title at the top of the page and click on the pen icon
to edit the Title.
There are two types of AI Conversations:
Socratic Questioning: where the AI tool asks the students continuous open-ended questions.
Role Play: where the AI persona interacts with the students via questions and responses.
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The Reflection Question is set at default and cannot be removed.
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Use the AI Design Assistant to Auto-Generate AI Conversations
Instructors can now use the AI design assistant to auto-generate AI conversations. This can be helpful to get started and give you ideas for creating interactive experiences for students.
To use the AI Conversation Generator:
i. Create a new AI conversation (see above for detailed directions)
ii. Click on the icon labeled “auto-generate conversation” on the top right of the screen (see screenshot for example). This will open the AI design assistant.
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iii. This will take you to the Auto-Generate Conversation window. From this window, you have several options to adjust the generated conversation- see descriptions below and accompanying screenshot for examples.
Choose items to generate: You can decide to generate some or all of the following: a conversation title, an AI persona, and/or a reflection question.
Decide on a conversation type: Select either “roleplay” or “socratic questioning”. If you aren’t sure, you can leave this selection at “inspire me” and you’ll be provided both types to choose from.
Description: Provide directions and context for the conversation you envision.
Select course items to ground the conversation: You can direct the AI to specifically reference selected items in your course; for example, you could build a socratic questioning conversation about the course syllabus, or about a particular module, document, video, etc.
Adjust complexity: This can be adjusted from low to high, from early primary school to PhD level.
Generate: Generate to update the conversation to match your input. You can continue fine-tuning these fields and re-generating the conversation.
Save: Once you have saved the AI Design Assistant-generated conversation, it can be further edited according to the directions above, by accessing the conversation in your course view. Be sure to adjust the settings, due date, grading category, etc.
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AI Conversation Grade Settings - Personal Study
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Ungraded AI Conversation item will still be shown in Gradebook. This will not affect the total grade of your course. |
Select Save when you have made the changes you need.
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AI Conversation Grade Settings - Formative Assessment
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vii. Description - indicate clearly to students how many questions they should answer (Socratic Questions) and how many they should ask and answer (Role Play).
Select Save when you have made the changes you need.
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Important InformationAll AI-generated information is opened to inaccuracy and bias. Your role as the expert and instructor of the course is to engage with AI Conversation to inform yourself on the biases and inaccuracies that may occur. We encourage you to use the Preview Chat prior your students' engagement with the AI tool. |
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