By providing AI-assisted feedback on open-ended and composition activities, grading will take less time for open-ended writing activities and instructors can spend more time on other tasks. AI suggestions can be taken into account or not, instructors are empowered to make the call.
Once AI-assisted feedback is enabled, that choice will persist across activities as it does with the other grading options. The AI-assisted feedback will be available to instructors by the time they are ready to grade. The moment a student clicks on “submit”, their submission is sent for evaluation by the AI.
Enable AI-assisted Feedback
- Open the grading area and select an assignment from Already graded, Needs grading, Upcoming grading, or Unassigned activities.
- Choose a grading method: Student by Student, Question by Question, or Spotcheck Student Work. Rubric-tagged activities use the rubric grading mechanism by default.
- At Use AI-assisted feedback?, select Yes. The feature is documented as disabled by default; after enablement, the choice persists across activities similarly to other grading options.
NOTE: Instructors must opt in during grading; enablement then persists across activities.
- Select Start Grading. Because AI processing begins when the student submits, suggestions should already be available by the time the instructor reviews the work.
AI-Generated Suggestions
- Review the numbered suggestions and any overall-feedback comment. The instructor may:
- pass along/accept a suggestion.
NOTE: The system proposes comments; it does not document automatic point assignment, final grading, or replacement of instructor judgment.
Edit AI-assisted Feedback
The instructor may:
- edit and save the AI-Assisted Feedback
- delete it or reject it and write original feedback.
NOTE: Edit, delete, reject, and flag controls are part of the workflow precisely because instructors determine whether a suggestion is appropriate.
Instructor Flags to give feedback on AI-assisted Feedback responses
The instructor may also:
- Flag a selected AI-generated suggestion for VHL with optional explanatory comments explaining how they could be improved.
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