Body
When to Use?
You can create AI Conversations around a topic or scenario to engage your students. AI Conversations include Socratic questioning and role play exercises. Students can explore and reflect on their own thoughts or role play a situation related to their learning or career path. We'll include other conversation types as we gather feedback and insights from users.
Procedure
There are two elements to the AI Conversation activity:
- AI Conversation
- This asks students to think critically about the topic that the instructor designs.
- Reflection question
- This asks students to share their thoughts on the activity. Students can also flag any bias or errors from the AI as part of our Trustworthy AI Approach. Reflection helps students understand the responsible use of AI services.
Visit the AI Conversation Transparency Note to learn more about how Anthology's Trustworthy AI program applies to AI Conversation.
Create an AI Conversation
Go to the Create Item dropdown by selecting the plus icon on the Course Content page.
AI Conversation is within the Participation and Engagement section.
Customize an AI Conversation
Select the conversation type. You can choose between Socratic Questioning or Role Play.
For Socratic Questioning, enter a topic of conversation in the content field. Make sure that your topic is open-ended and doesn't have a right or wrong answer. Select Next to move on to the next step.
For Role Play, include a scenario, roles for the student and persona, and the goal for the scenario. Select Next to move on to the next step.
Now, select a persona for the AI Conversation. You can provide your own image, use Unsplash, or generate an image for the persona's avatar. Enter a name for the persona and briefly describe the persona occupation, personality, or mood. You can also adjust the complexity of the persona's responses.
The personality traits significantly shape the interactions. Choose traits carefully and preview the conversation to avoid bias or otherwise inappropriate content.
Select Save when you're finished. You can preview the AI Conversation as a student and interact with the AI persona by selecting Preview chat.
You should always preview an AI conversation before releasing the activity to students. AI tools can hallucinate and introduce bias. It's important to make sure that your instructions are clear and that the AI persona responds in an expected and appropriate way.
You can edit the reflection question to guide your students on how best to reflect on the activity.
Review student interactions
On submission, you can review the AI conversation transcript and your students' reflections. The AI Conversation is a formative assessment by default, but you’re not restricted to this option.
You have the option of reviewing general student activity for the assessment by selecting the Student Activity tab. Visit the "Student Activity Details for Assessments" topic to learn more about this feature.