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How generative AI works, and does not

Home / AI literacy guides / AI basics AI literacy guide · AI basics How generative AI works, and does not Understand what these tools are doing under the hood so you can judge their output. A generative AI tool such as a large language model produces text by predicting the next most likely word, over and over, from patterns in the data it was trained on. It …

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Localize and personalize

Home / AI literacy guides / Assignment design AI literacy guide · Assignment design Localize and personalize Anchor work in the here and now of your class and your students. Work rooted in your specific classroom is hard to outsource. Tie assignments to a discussion that happened last week, a guest speaker, a field trip, a lab the class ran, or a current…

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Make the task authentic

Home / AI literacy guides / Assignment design AI literacy guide · Assignment design Make the task authentic Design work that connects to real contexts a generic tool cannot fake. A generic prompt invites a generic answer, which is exactly what a language model produces best. The fix is to make the task specific and applied. Ask students to use course…

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Make thinking visible

Home / AI literacy guides / Assignment design AI literacy guide · Assignment design Make thinking visible Assess the path, not just the destination, so the work shows its reasoning. When you grade only a finished product, you cannot see how it was made, and a polished product is the easiest thing to generate. Shift some weight onto the process. Collect…

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Redesign over detection

Home / AI literacy guides / Integrity and AI AI literacy guide · Integrity and AI Redesign over detection The thesis of this course: change the work, not the surveillance. The throughline of this course is simple to state. You cannot reliably detect AI use, and trying to do so harms students and your teaching. What you can do is design assignments and…

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The resistant-to-integrated spectrum

Home / AI literacy guides / Assessment redesign AI literacy guide · Assessment redesign The resistant-to-integrated spectrum Decide, per assignment, where it should sit on the AI spectrum. Every assignment can sit somewhere on a spectrum. At one end are AI-resistant tasks, designed so a tool does not help much, often in-class, oral, or tightly local. At the …

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Scaffold, draft, reflect

Home / AI literacy guides / Assessment redesign AI literacy guide · Assessment redesign Scaffold, draft, reflect Three reliable moves that build learning and resist outsourcing at once. Three moves do a lot of work together. Scaffold a big assignment into smaller staged pieces with their own deadlines, so students build it over time rather than produce it…

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What it does well, and where it fails

Home / AI literacy guides / AI basics AI literacy guide · AI basics What it does well, and where it fails Match the tool to tasks it is good at, and know where it breaks. Generative AI is genuinely useful for some tasks: drafting and rephrasing text, summarizing, brainstorming options, explaining a concept several ways, and generating examples or practice…

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Set up automated alerts and messages

Home / Blackboard guides / Set up communication Blackboard guide · Set up communication Set up automated alerts and messages Let the LMS watch for trouble and reach out, so you do not have to track it by hand. Blackboard can watch for trouble and reach out on its own, which is worth setting up while you build. Instructor notification settings can alert you…

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Start with backward design

Home / Blackboard guides / Design your course Blackboard guide · Design your course Start with backward design Plan your course from outcomes, not from the files you happen to have. Open a new Blackboard shell and the urge is to start uploading last term’s slides and readings. A course built from the files up answers the question “what do I have?” The…

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Course availability and key settings

Home / Blackboard guides / Set up your LMS Blackboard guide · Set up your LMS Course availability and key settings The handful of settings important to set before students arrive. Two things cause most early-term trouble: availability and dates. Make the course available to students when you are ready, and set the start and end so students get access exactly…

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Sketch your course map

Home / Blackboard guides / Design your course Blackboard guide · Design your course Sketch your course map Lay out the whole term on one page before you build anything. A course map is a simple table you fill in before touching Blackboard. Rows are your weeks or units. Columns are the topic, the objective it serves, the assessment that checks it, and the…

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Choose your grading scheme

Home / Blackboard guides / Set up the gradebook Blackboard guide · Set up the gradebook Choose your grading scheme Set up an honest grading scheme before any grades post. Decide your grade scheme early: straight points, or weighted categories, for example exams 40 percent, projects 40 percent, and participation 20 percent. Set it before the first grades…

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Organize for your modality

Home / Blackboard guides / Build content Blackboard guide · Build content Organize for your modality Choose how to organize your course based on how you teach it. The single biggest structural choice in your Blackboard course is how you organize it. Your teaching modality is the deciding factor. By teaching modality we mean how the course is delivered: in…

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Pace with release conditions

Home / Blackboard guides / Build content Blackboard guide · Build content Pace with release conditions Decide what students can see and when, and guide them through it in order. Start with visibility. New content is hidden from students until you show it, which is useful while you build. One caution: set visibility before you set release conditions, because …

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Blackboard guides

Home / LMS course-building / Blackboard guides Blackboard guides Blackboard course-building guides Every topic from the Blackboard course, as a standalone reference. Search or filter to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllDesign your courseSet up your LMSBuild contentAssess and quizSet up the…

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Canvas guides

Home / LMS course-building / Canvas guides Canvas guides Canvas course-building guides Every topic from the Canvas course, as a standalone reference. Search or filter to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllDesign your courseSet up your LMSBuild contentAssess and quizSet up the gradebookAccessibilitySet up…

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Classroom management guides

Home / Course catalog / Classroom management guides Classroom management guides Classroom management guides Every topic from the course, as a standalone reference. Search or filter to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllA well-run roomPreventing problemsHandling disruptionDifficult conversationsDistress and…

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Accessibility as a quality standard

Home / Course quality guides / Accessibility and improvement Course quality guide · Accessibility and improvement Accessibility as a quality standard Accessibility is a core quality standard in every major framework. Every major quality framework treats accessibility as a core standard, not an add-on. A quality course is usable by every student: real…

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Check your objectives

Home / Course quality guides / Alignment Course quality guide · Alignment Check your objectives Quality starts with objectives that are measurable, visible, and worth aiming at. Review your learning objectives first, since everything else aligns to them. Quality objectives use observable verbs you can assess, avoid vague verbs like understand or know, and…

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