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Tips for AI Prompting and Crafting Assessments 

Build a foundation for assessment ideation with AI using the 3Ps of Quality Prompting. Then, take your AI assessment brainstorm to the next level with these tips for prompting! Prep:

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Authentic Assessment in the Online Classroom

Assessment plays a vital role in online learning. It helps students track their progress, pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement, and ultimately ensures they meet the course’s learning objectives.  Although

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AI Prompt Templates and Examples for Authentic Assessments

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide faculty with an additional partner to ideate and brainstorm new and innovative authentic assessments in their online courses. These types of assessments engage students

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Assessments in an AI World

New technologies require greater attention to course design than ever before. As a result, strong, well-designed course interactions are the necessary response from educators. When students tap into their strengths and

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Creative Methods of Assessment in Online Learning

When students and instructors hear the word “assessment,” they often think of long, stressful exams—or equally long nights of grading! But an assessment is really any task that evaluates students’

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The Benefits of Rubrics in Online Classes

Rubrics are an essential tool for any instructor, but they become even more powerful in the context of online courses. Building an effective rubric requires clearly outlining criteria, levels of student

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Group Projects in Online Courses

“Every professor teaching online should consider team projects for his or her classes.”— Edward Volchoc (2006) Group projects open the door for students to tackle more complex and intriguing problems

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Scaffolding Assessments

As you develop or redevelop an online course, you may notice that some of your intended assessments are not a good fit. Perhaps they require too much time-on-task in a

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Addressing Student Choice in Assignment Submissions

Assessments are the cornerstone of any course. They’re not just tasks for students to complete—they’re the tools we use to measure whether students have truly grasped the concepts and skills

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Creating Authentic Assessments

What Are Authentic Assessments? Authentic assessments are cognitively complex, performance-based evaluations that focus the context of learning on real-life situations similar to those found in the professional environment (Frey, Schmitt,

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Formative Assessments for Online Courses

Using effective assessment techniques can improve an instructor’s understanding of student needs and support learner-centered courses.

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