AI Discussions

When to Use?

Learn how to use the AI Design Assistant to generate discussions for your course.

Procedure

Create a new discussion from the purple plus sign.

To initiate the AI Design Assistant with discussions, click on the Auto-generate discussion button.

Image of the panel for creating a new discussion, showing the rich text editor and the discussion settings options

 

Discussions initially will be generated based on your course's title and description.

 

The AI Design Assistant's Auto-Generate Discussion panel, with options on the left and discussion prompts on the right

You have several ways to customize the discussions that the AI Design Assistant generates.

  • Enter a description (limited to 2000 characters) to narrow the focus of the discussions
  • Select the desired cognitive level
    • Apply
    • Analyze
    • Evaluate
    • Create
    • Inspire me! provides you with a mix of levels
  • Adjust the complexity of the discussions’ focus by moving the slider
  • Select whether or not you want to generate a title for discussions
  • Select the arrow beside Advanced options to change the output language 

Cognitive levels are based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Optionally, you can select which course items you’d like the AI Design Assistant to provide context for discussions. Select Select course items to start.

Select the box beside any course content item to include it in the context for your discussion. 

The context picker, with several different categories of course items. Two of the types of course item are checked are others are left unchecked.

You can select the arrow beside a folder or learning module to include items from them. When you’ve finished choosing items for context, select Select items to return to question generation. 

Once you’ve finalized your settings, select Generate. Review each discussion for accuracy and bias. Choose the discussion you’d like to add to your course, then select Add.

File types supported by the context picker include PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text, RTF, and HTML.

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