Introduction

So far, we have mainly thought about students using AI, however, we’d now like look at ways that staff may wish to use AI.

Generating quizzes

Gen AI can be directed to create quizzes, and it is a feature that academics have been looking at since early days of ChatGPT. Originally staff were predominantly giving gen AI a subject area, however, this can often lead to a range of questions, many of which may not cover content covered in your course, and some of which may contain inaccuracies (the hallucinations we’ve seen in relation to references and other content). More recently tools have allowed staff to point the AI in the direction of a website or open a document (pdf) in the browser, and ask it to generate a quiz based on the document.

Now you can do this as easily as opening the document in Edge and asking Bing AI to “create a quiz based on this page” or “Using only the current webpage context create a quiz”, as demonstrated in this video aimed at students creating quizzes to support their understanding of content.

Blackboard and AI

Blackboard has recently introduced the AI Design Assistants to support staff when generating content for students. While we at Dundee have not yet released these (they’re currently being evaluated by a small group of academic staff) the quiz generation allows staff to develop quizzes without having to leave the Blackboard. If you’re at an institution that has enabled it (or are part of our evaluation group) we’d like to hear your thoughts in the comments.

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Create a quiz

Try creating a quiz from a pdf or URL using Bing or another tool of your choice.

How useful would those questions be for your students? When testing, we found that in some cases, Bing used a completely different page (one I had never opened) to generate the questions, while at other times it worked as expected.

To think about?

In our guidance for staff, you are reminded to acknowledge content that has been generated with the support of AI (just as students are required to). How do you think your students will react to knowing you have used AI in this way?

When using tools other than Bing (while logged into your UoD account), remember to consider whether or not your content should be shared outside of the University. Is the content shared through a Creative Commons / Open Education licenced, or is it content that requires an institutional login?

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