We are working feverishly to integrate openAI into Innovation this month! It is so exciting to see how this enhances our work! It’s like having a professional teaching assistant!
The new Test app has many enhancements over the previous app. Among the improvements (besides AI support) are:
It can have a mix of short answer and multiple-choice questions.
Teachers can import questions from the test bank, from other tests, create brand new questions, or use our AI question generator.
Teachers can edit the questions right in the new editor app, including attaching audio clips and images if needed.
The student test area has a new, modern layout and user-friendly design, including full security, support for international characters, and a feature to mark questions for later review.
For short answer questions, the teachers can avail themselves of the AI grading assistant! While we have left the algorithmic AI installed, using generative AI saves you the trouble of pre-training the grading assistant.
Innovation is excited to announce that we are working diligently to integrate OpenAI artificial intelligence into all aspects of the Innovation platform! We are developing a virtual teaching assistant that will help teachers generate “just right” learning activities and assessments.
Look for the purple button throughout the site …
… or the ✨ emoji to signal where AI integrations have been installed.
AI integration has been a goal at Innovation since before the release of the generative AI models in the early 2020s. Since 2018, Innovation has sported a pretty nifty algorithmic AI that helps grade short written work submissions and proctor student online activity. Now with the integration of OpenAI’s generative AI models (3.5 and 4o), we can truly realize the dream of a highly productive and efficient virtual teaching assistant!
When Innovation started out under a different name some 25 years ago, it was mainly a test generator (thus, the name). Since the pandemic, it has been meeting the needs of remote instructors and in-person classrooms alike not only in assessment but in content delivery in a variety of subjects, including for world language instruction.
Innovation is a place to create. It’s a place where teacher-authors can generate “just right” learning activities and assessments for their teaching context instead of textbook company generics. But we understand that secondary school teachers are even more busy than ever, seeking to meet the growing diversity of need and ever changing objectives and curricula. With Innovation’s AI teaching assistant, teachers can redirect their creative energies to the big picture of student learning and measurement.
Check out this simple how-to, for example, which illustrates how you can use the AI teaching assistant to help you generate a test.
Check back with us as the spring unfolds! At this writing, we have already installed openAI teaching assistants in:
