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AI Design Assistant

Creating courses from scratch can be a time-consuming task that involves a lot of repetitive work. Your institution might have limited resources for instructional design, or you might want help outlining your course. The AI (Artificial Intelligence) Design Assistant helps you build your course and saves you time.

At all steps in the creation process, you can adjust the complexity of content and customize everything that the AI Design Assistant generates. You can even use the AI Design Assistant to give your course a unique look to better engage your students by generating images or keywords to search Unsplash's gallery of stock photos.

There are ten levels of complexity for AI-generated content.

  1. Early primary school

  2. Late primary school

  3. Early middle school

  4. Late middle school

  5. Early high school

  6. Late high school

  7. Undergraduate lower division

  8. Undergraduate upper division

  9. Graduate level

  10. Advanced PhD level

As we look to explore the benefits AI has to offer, we are prioritizing lawful, ethical, and responsible use. We have established our Trustworthy AI principles, where we commit to:

  • humans in control,

  • fairness,

  • privacy,

  • security, and

  • safety.

We recommend reviewing the documents linked below as you consider using AI within Blackboard.

We chose to partner with Microsoft to provide this functionality for many reasons. A primary reason is that Microsoft has a long-standing commitment to the ethical use of AI. Please find helpful resources from Microsoft below:

Supported output languages for AI workflows

The AI Design Assistant can produce outputs in many languages:

The AI Design Assistant can produce outputs in many languages:

  • Arabic

  • Azerbaijani

  • Catalan

  • Chinese, Simplified

  • Chinese, Traditional

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • English, American

  • English, Australian

  • English, British

  • French

  • French, Canadian

  • German

  • Greek

  • Hebrew

  • Italian

  • Irish

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Malay

  • Norwegian, Bokmål

  • Norwegian, Nynorsk

  • Polish

  • Portuguese, Brazilian

  • Portuguese, Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Slovenian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Ukrainian

  • Welsh