Assignment Creator is one of four tools included in Assignment Assistant. Assignment Creator generates assignments directly aligned with specified learning objectives, complete with instructions and a deliverable checklist. Each generated assignment maintains high academic standards while providing a foundation for customization to specific course needs.
How to Use Assignment Creator
- 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 Brainstorm ideas for a new assignment.
- Choose the Assignment Modality:
- Asynchronous: Assignment can be completed on students' own time.
- Synchronous: Assignment must be completed in real-time.
- Choose the Assignment Type:
- Formative: Lower-stakes assignments that monitor learning progress.
- Summative: Higher-stakes assignments that measure overall proficiency.
- Under Student Work Uses these Levels from Bloom's Taxonomy, select at least one level. There can be between 1 - 6 levels used.
- For more information on Bloom's Taxonomy, refer to this CTL Teaching Toolkit resource.
- Enter the Duration of the Assignment. This can be in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks.
- 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.
- Select Generate Assignment to begin generating the assignment.
- 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 Creator Output
Review and edit the assignment being mindful of the Assignment Assistant tools' terms of use and the following:
- Evaluate the academic rigor of this assignment in context of your learners and the course's design. You know your students and your course best; those relationships should translate to relevance and authenticity, expectations, and opportunity for growth.
- Be cautious of AI's formulaic tone; your assignment can often benefit from personalization. The originality that comes from the human touch, particularly in collaboration with AI, builds trust and community even in learning activities' instructions.
- Assignments can be structured to build on each other. If this assignment is related to another from earlier or later in the term, be sure to highlight this connection in its introduction.
- Always proofread and edit the assignment's final instructions for clarity, spelling, 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.