Hey there, educators! We know that crafting high-quality assessment items for your courses can be incredibly time-consuming. You’re spending time ensuring items are well-worded, align with specific learning objectives, and that the item bank provides comprehensive coverage of the topic.
We've heard your feedback loud and clear. That's why we're thrilled to introduce Item Authoring Assistance, a powerful new feature designed to streamline your workflow and elevate the quality of your assessments directly within Mastery Connect.
Why We Built This Feature
Our user research consistently highlights the challenges educators face in assessment creation. Many feel that the process of authoring new items is "tedious" and "time consuming". You've told us that while creating effective assessments is critical, the manual effort involved can divert precious time from direct student interaction and instructional planning.
We built IgniteAI Item Authoring Assistance to directly address these pain points. Our goal is to drastically reduce the manual effort required for item creation, allowing educators to focus more on teaching and less on the mechanics of item bank development. By leveraging AI, we empower you to:
- Accelerate Item Creation: Generate a variety of item types (initially Multiple Choice) in minutes, not hours.
- Enhance Quality and Relevance: Produce items that are directly tied to your source material, ensuring strong content fit and factual accuracy.
- Maintain Pedagogical Alignment: Guide the AI by specifying a topic focus and leveraging the standard applied to the assessment, ensuring all generated items are aligned.
This feature isn’t just about speed, it’s about providing an intelligent assistant that helps you create more effective assessments, more efficiently. As the educator, you remain in control. Built in-house, this solution offers a seamless, native experience within your existing Mastery Connect workflows.
How IgniteAI Item Authoring Assistance Works
Getting started with AI Item Authoring Assistance is straightforward and designed to fit naturally into your existing item creation process:
- Provide Your Source Material: Simply upload a document (PDF, Word) or paste relevant text directly into the tool. This source material acts as the foundation for the AI's generation, ensuring items are highly relevant to your content.
- Define Your Focus: Guide the AI by specifying a topic focus. The AI will then generate items that are aligned to the standard applied to the assessment.
- Specify Bloom's & Depth of Knowledge: You can specify Bloom's Taxonomy levels and Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to ensure the generated items meet your specific criteria.
- Choose Your Item Types: Select the type of items you need (initially, this is Multiple Choice, with Fill-in-the-Blank and Essay planned as a follow-up) and the desired quantity.
- Generate & Refine: With a click, the AI rapidly generates items. You then have full control to review, edit, or regenerate any items before adding them to your item bank. You'll see a clear indicator that items were AI-generated, maintaining transparency.
What Does This Unlock for You?
This powerful new feature delivers distinct advantages for all Mastery Connect users:
Instructors will experience a dramatic reduction in item bank population time. You can quickly generate relevant items aligned to the selected standard for unit assessments, allowing you to focus more on instruction and less on administrative tasks. The native integration ensures a smooth, intuitive experience, streamlining your workflow directly within the Mastery Connect environment.
Conclusion
IgniteAI Item Authoring Assistance is a direct response to your needs for more efficient and effective item creation. By combining the power of AI with your expertise, we're making it easier than ever to build assessments that truly measure student understanding. We're committed to continuous improvement, and your feedback as early adopters will be crucial in shaping the future of this powerful tool. Stay tuned for more updates and opportunities to explore this feature!
