Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing education, and Blackboard Ultra has a number of built-in AI tools to spark creativity and save you time. With the AI Design Assistant and the addition of AI Conversations with role-playing capabilities, instructors now have powerful tools to enhance course design, engage students, and streamline teaching tasks. Let’s explore how these AI-driven features can transform your course experience.
Key Features of the AI Design Assistant
- Course Structure Suggestions: Generate learning modules based on your course’s title and description.
- Context picker: Uses the course context you choose to generate content for each AI feature.
- Discussion and Journal Generation: Create prompts to encourage class interaction.
- Rubric and Assignment Prompt Generation: Assist in creating rubrics and assignment prompts tailored to your course.
- Test Question and Question Bank Generation: Inspire a range of questions for assessments.
- Image Generation: Use AI to give your course a unique look with stock or original photos.
- Conversations: Create AI Conversations around a topic or scenario to engage your students.






