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May 2025
Gradebook: Text-Based Item
Instructors can now create custom text-based columns in the Gradebook, giving them the ability to record information for an assessment, such as performance code, group membership, and tutoring information.
- Character limitation: the text item allow instructors to record up to 32 characters.
- The text item can accept letters, numbers (alphanumerical values).
- It will not be available for calculations.
Instructors can:
- Create text-based columns from the Gradable Items or Grades options;
- Name the column, control student visibility, and add a description;
- Add and edit text information for a specific student using an inline eidt workflow.
Text-based columns exclude the following:
- Points values (automatically set to 0 points)
- Due dates
- Categories
- Gradebook calculations and related calculations
- Content in a text-based item auto-posts. The students will see the text as soon as you press the ENTER key on your keyboard.
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You can sort on the text-based item.
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Instructors can also download and upload text-based columns using the Gradebook's upload/download function.
No Points Rubrics
Instructors can now create and use no-points rubrics for qualitative evaluation. This rubric type allows instructors to assess student work based on criteria and feedback, rather than numerical values. In addition, the AI generation option now supports no-points rubrics, providing a streamlined method to create detailed evaluation criteria.
Instructors can select No Points as a rubric type when creating or generating a rubric. This option is available alongside existing percentage and points-based rubrics. Instructors can also edit rubrics to switch between different rubric types, including percentage, points range, and no points.
One-Time View of Results
We added a new test result setting option, View submission one time. When a student completes the test, they can review their answers and detailed feedback, such as which questions were answered correctly. The View submission one time option lets instructors provide students with immediate feedback.
Remember that students can still copy and paste your questions and answers when you allow them to view the feedback. If this propose an opportunity to compromise your question bank of questions, consider the following alternatives:
- Students should take the test in a lab where the computers settings are controlled and students cannot use their cell phone to take a picture or to print the questions.
- Use QuestUP.
On the Test Settings, select the way the feedback should be displayed:
Discussion Enhancements & Group Discussions
We made several enhancements to discussions to improve the user experience and make discussions more engaging and efficient.
- Updated wording: We used to call discussion contributions "responses" and "replies." We changed this to "posts" and "replies."
- Improved input field text: Previously, the text within the input field was "Type a response." The text within the input field is now "Post a response to the discussion."
- Avatar update: We previously included the user's avatar beside the input field. We removed the avatar to increase the area for adding content to the discussion.
Auto-generate AI Conversation
The AI Design Assistant can now auto-generate AI Conversations. AI Conversations are conversations between students and an AI persona.
- Socratic Questioning: Conversations that encourage students to think critically through continuous questioning.
- Role-play: Conversations that allow students to play out scenarios with the AI persona, enhancing their learning experience.
Creating personas and topics for an AI Conversation can take a lot of time. To streamline this process, the AI Design Assistant can generate three suggestions at once. You can select what the AI Design Assistant generates. You can choose to generate:
- AI Conversation title
- AI persona
- Reflection question
These suggestions provide inspiration for an AI Conversation. Instructors can refine the AI Design Assistant’s suggestions in several ways:
- Provide additional context
- Adjust the complexity of the question
- Select context from the course
- Manually revise the question
Follow these steps:
- On the Course Content page click on the plus (+) sign where you want to add the AI Conversation.
- Click on Create
- On the side panel scroll down to the bottom of the items that you can add
- Choose AI Conversation
- Click on the Auto-generate conversation button.
It will display the conversation options.
6. Select the content that should be used - when testing prompts the EI team discovered that you should be as specific as possible, providing the context, what you need the persona to be, etc.
7. Select the type of AI conversation that should be created
8. Select the complexity levels
9. Select generate.
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