When to Use?
This Spring/Summer 2025 semester, we invite faculty to pilot new generative AI tools in our Blackboard stage environment. These tools are designed to support curriculum development and refresh efforts. The pilot will help us gather valuable insights to inform best practices and develop faculty-facing resources ahead of potential implementation in the production environment. As with all generative AI tools, effective prompting is essential, and any generated content should be carefully reviewed and refined before being incorporated into a course.
Before using the Blackboard AI Design Assistant, we recommend reviewing the GVSU AI Policy and visiting the GVSU AI website for guidance on responsible and ethical use of AI in teaching and learning.
Faculty interested in participating or learning more are encouraged to contact their eLearning Liaison for support and guidance.
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Use the AI Design Assistant to generate journals based on the course's title and description.
Procedure
Journals will be generated based on your course's title and description.
You have several ways to customize the journals that the AI Design Assistant generates.
- Enter a description (limited to 2000 characters) to narrow the focus of the journals
- Select the desired cognitive level
- Apply
- Analyze
- Evaluate
- Create
- Inspire me! provides you with a mix of levels
- Adjust the complexity of the journals’ focus
- Select whether or not you want to generate a title for journals
- Select 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 journals. Select Select course items to start.
Select any course content item to include it in the context for your journal.
You can select 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.
File types supported by the context picker include PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text, RTF, and HTML.
Once you’ve finalized your settings, select Generate. Review each journal for accuracy and bias. Choose the journal you’d like to add to your course, then select Add.