Inspiration And Efficiency For Instructors: AI Design Assistant Is Now Live In Blackboard Learn Ultra

As announced at our annual Anthology Together conference in July, Blackboard Learn Ultra is the first major LMS to provide generative AI features to inspire instructors’ course structures, tests, and rubrics. The AI Design Assistant is now live, and available to all Ultra institutions as part of their standard license.

Among the six initial features that form the AI Design Assistant, instructors can now leverage generative AI to:

• Get inspiration for course structure, including draft modules, titles, and descriptions.
• Receive suggestions for test questions, based on existing course content.
• Draft assessment rubrics, again developed in line with the existing material in the course.

The instructor maintains full control for all these capabilities, and can review, edit, and delete the suggestions made by AI Design Assistant at any time. Watch this detailed demo video to see the AI Design Assistant in action.

 
Crucial to our product development approach around AI is our partnership with Microsoft. The AI Design Assistant Leverages the Azure OpenAI service, and we are working closely with the Microsoft team to explore further possibilities to include AI within Blackboard Learn and our other EdTech solutions.

At all steps in the process, we are guided by the principles in the Anthology Trustworthy AI Approach, which is available publicly to ensure our global learning community have full visibility into how we are approaching AI as a company. Central to our thinking here is a focus on empowering instructors first, and we have just released a detailed white paper about AI, plagiarism, and authentic assessment which provides actionable advice on responsible AI adoption for institutional leaders.

Want to try AI Design Assistant for yourself? Click here to access a FREE 30-day trial of Blackboard Learn Ultra.


Ben Burrett
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Anthology