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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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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.
Discussions initially will be generated based on your course's title and description.
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 would 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.
You can select the arrow beside a folder or learning module to include items from them. When you have finished choosing items for context, select Select items to return to question generation.
Once you have finalized your settings, select Generate. Review each discussion for accuracy and bias. Choose the discussion you would like to add to your course, then select Add.
File types supported by the context picker include PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text, RTF, and HTML.