Assignment Insight is one of four tools included in Assignment Assistant. Assignment Insight evaluates pedagogical alignment and clarity of assignment instructions while analyzing structure, timeline feasibility, and grading efficiency to identify potential issues with rigor, ambiguity, or overly restrictive requirements.
How to Use Assignment Insight
- Navigate to the Faculty Tools page in your course site.
- Under Activities and Assignments > Resources, select Assignment Assistant.
- If you have not already, select I Acknowledge the Above on the acknowledgment page.
- Select Get feedback on assignment instructions.
- Enter the Expected Number of Minutes to Grade Each Student Assignment.
- Select the desired Group Size.
- If applicable, choose which objectives to include among the list of Learning Objectives. These are course-specific objectives that are pulled directly from the syllabus.
- If applicable, enter learning objectives in the Custom Learning Objectives box.
- You can use course Learning Objectives or Custom Learning Objectives or both.
- Upload the assignment description file.
- The file types accepted are .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt, and application/msword. The maximum file size is 5 MB.
- Select Generate Feedback to begin generating the feedback.
- While you wait for the output, there is an optional outbreak containment game you can play.
- Once the output is ready, select View Response.
See an example of the output.
How to Utilize Assignment Insight Output
Review the feedback being mindful of the Assignment Assistant tools' terms of use and the following:
- Course design may dictate flexibility in an assignment. This feedback is based on the information you provided. If logistics or learning objectives change, re-evaluate your assignment.
- The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework may be mentioned in this feedback. To learn more about UDL, visit the CTL Teaching Toolkit Page: Introduction to Universal Design for Learning.
- Assignments, like objectives, can be scaffolded. If this assignment is connected to another, earlier or later in the term, include a salient reference in its introduction.
- Always proofread and edit the assignment's final instructions for clarity, spelling and grammar, and accessibility. Learn about Digital Accessibility Expectations of BSPH Faculty.
To save the output, you can copy the text, download a PDF file, or download a Word file. All of these options are listed at the top and bottom of the output page.
Note: Assignment Assistant does not retain generated output. Therefore, leaving the page without saving the information will result in a loss of the response. However, you are free to generate again.