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Brightspace Lumi Features

Lumi in Brightspace uses AI to help instructors come up with assignments, discussions, quiz questions and more!

Important: Please ensure that all content generated by Lumi is thoroughly reviewed for factual accuracy and clarity before presenting it to your students. While Lumi provides valuable ideas and suggestions, your expertise and judgment are crucial in making sure the information is appropriate and beneficial for your students' learning experience.

For more on generating quiz questions besides Lumi, check out Importing Quiz Questions Made by AI!

Generate Assignments using Lumi

Make sure you start in Content
1. You should have existing materials such as HTML pages, Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc (full list of what can be used).
Click the Upload/Create button and choose New Assignment.
Click on Generate Assignment Ideas.
Choose the Number of Ideas and a Bloom's Taxonomy level (or leave on Select Level if you don't want to utilize this feature).
Determine whether you want to include all existing materials in the module or select which activities you want included.
When ready, click Generate.
Sort through the ideas and choose which one you want to include in your Instructions by selecting Insert.

On the right side, a button labeled "Generate Assignment Ideas" is prominently displayed.

A button labeled "Generate Discussion Ideas" is visible on the right side.

Generate Discussions using Lumi

Make sure you start in Content
1. You should have existing materials such as HTML pages, Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc (full list of what can be used).
Click the Upload/Create button and choose New Discussion.
Click on Generate Discussion Ideas.
Choose the Number of Ideas and a Bloom's Taxonomy level (or leave on Select Level if you don't want to utilize this feature).
Determine whether you want to include all existing materials in the module or select which activities you want included.
When ready, click Generate.
Sort through the ideas and choose which one you want to include in your Instructions by selecting Insert.

Generate Content Module Summary using Lumi

Make sure you start in Content
1. You should have existing materials such as HTML pages, Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc (full list of what can be used).
At the top of the module, click on Add a description or the description text if there is one there already.
Click on Generate Summary.
Determine whether you want to include all existing materials in the module or select which activities you want included.
When ready, click Generate Summary.
Choose whether you want to include a student, module or instructor perspective and click on Insert.

On the content page of a course, A "Generate Summary" button appears on the right.

Generate Quiz Questions using Lumi

Start in Quizzes under Other Course Tools, click on the Question Library tab.
Click on the Generate Questions button.
Determine your Content Source
1. Course Content: This will allow you to select a resource from Content (full list of what can be used is different from what was previously mentioned)
2. Custom Text: Copy and paste the source you want students to be assessed on.
Choose the Number of Ideas and the Question Type you want generated.
Pick a Bloom's Taxonomy level (or leave on Select Level if you don't want to utilize this feature).
Click Generate.
When your generated questions appear, click on the Pending Review for Question 1.
1. This will show you details on the question and what the right answer is.
  1. Decide whether you want to include this question with Keep and Next.
  2. Choose Discard and Next to trash this question.
  3. Select Close This Question if you want to refer back to the other questions up for review.
2. Repeat process until all generated questions have been reviewed.
When you are all done, click on Save to Section.
1. You can Save to Current Section to remain in your body of questions.
2. Or you can Create New Section which will store them in a folder.
Now when you are editing a Quiz, you can click on Add Existing and select Browse Question Library.
All of the questions from your Question Library will appear here and any Lumi created questions will have an AI Generated tag under the question.

From Other Course Tools you can click on Quizzes then Question Library.

The main section displays the "Question Library" with buttons for "New," "Import," and "Generate Questions."

Can generate questions from either course content or custom text. A note explains that questions will be based on the first 8,000 characters of the selected page and that results may vary depending on the source material.

If Lumi is not doing enough to help you create questions for an upcoming assessment, check out the Importing Quiz Questions Made by AI page on how to utilize an outside AI program and bring it successfully into Brightspace.

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