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Explore Our AI Design Tools

We’ve created a team of AI design assistants to help with various aspects of course design. We use these AI bots to speed up our development projects and to ensure consistency and quality in every course. A free ChatGPT subscription is required to use these tools.

Outcomes & Course Mapping

  • Learning Outcome Oracle

    The Learning Outcome Oracle AI assists in drafting clear, measurable, and learner-centered program, course, and module learning outcomes. By guiding you through providing key details such as course level, purpose, learner characteristics, and preferred assessments, it tailors outcomes to meet your educational goals. Using strong, observable verbs, it focuses on skills and knowledge learners should achieve, ensuring concise and measurable outcomes without referencing specific activities or materials.

  • Course Map Pro

    The Course Map Pro AI supports the development and enhancement of courses across various formats. It helps align learning outcomes, activities, instructional materials, quizzes, and assessments with educational standards such as Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Quality Matters Rubric. Its focus is on clarity, alignment, and best instructional design practices, ensuring practical and effective course components tailored to your learning goals.

  • Course Map Cartographer

    The Course Map Cartographer AI helps organize your course with a detailed, module-by-module breakdown. By collecting information such as course objectives, topics, number of modules, format, and key assessments, it creates a draft outline featuring module titles, overviews, topics, and assignments. Its aim is to provide a clear and engaging course structure, tailored to your specific needs.

Assessments, Rubrics & Discussions

  • Assignment Wizard

    The Assignment Wizard AI assists in crafting engaging assignments that align with your educational objectives. By gathering key details like subject area, assignment purpose, learner characteristics, format, deliverables, and evaluation criteria, it creates tailored assignments with clear, student-facing instructions. It emphasizes purpose, task steps, and performance levels through a rubric, and collaborates to refine assignments as needed until they meet your vision.

  • AI Literacy Helper

    The AI Literacy Helper’s purpose is to help faculty embed AI literacy into courses, modules, and learning activities through practical instructional design support, organized around technical understanding, evaluative judgment, practical use, and ethical responsibility.

  • Rubric Genie

    The Rubric Genie AI assists in creating clear and concise assessment rubrics tailored to your course assignments. By gathering information about the subject, assignment purpose, and grading criteria, it crafts rubrics with three performance levels: “Met,” “Developing,” and “Not Met.” If needed, it asks for more details to ensure accuracy, delivering practical rubrics that align with your academic goals.

  • Quiz Shaman

    The Quiz Shaman AI guides you in creating multiple-choice and multiple-select quizzes formatted for the D2L learning management system. Using the questions, answers, and feedback you provide, it ensures everything is properly formatted for D2L uploads.

  • Online Discussion Druid

    The Online Discussion Druid AI assists in creating discussion board activities that foster meaningful student interactions. By gathering information about your course subject, level, learning goals, and student characteristics, it designs prompts with clear objectives, task lists, and rubrics for assessment. It ensures deadlines are clear, and rubrics focus on engagement, helping create a structured and impactful online discussion experience.

Accessibility, Quality & Compliance

  • Access+ UDL Coach

    Access+ UDL Coach helps educators and course designers create accessible, inclusive, and compliant learning experiences by aligning with WCAG, ADA, Section 508, and UDL principles. It provides checklists, templates, and AI tool guidance to make courses clearer, more engaging, and usable for all learners. The focus is on practical strategies that meet compliance standards while supporting learner variability.

  • Course Quality

    The Course Quality AI helps evaluate courses using the Quality Matters (QM) standards to ensure high-quality online and blended learning experiences. By referencing the QM Higher Education Rubric, it assesses course design, materials, activities, accessibility, and learner support. Its role is to guide reviews, ensuring alignment with best practices in clarity, engagement, and accessibility.

  • Code Accessibility Witch

    The Code Accessibility Witch AI reviews and enhances your web code to ensure accessibility for all users, especially those with disabilities. It suggests improvements such as adding alt text, improving keyboard navigation, enhancing readability, and making forms more accessible. Provide your code, and it works to ensure it meets accessibility standards, creating a more inclusive web experience.

  • Credit Hour Compliance

    The Credit Hour Compliance AI assists in calculating and ensuring credit hour compliance for online, blended, and hybrid courses based on federal and accreditation standards. It provides guidance on time allocation for various instructional methods and helps estimate workload for course activities, ensuring compliance while maintaining clarity and educational quality.

Editing & Review

  • Editing Imp

    The Editing Imp AI corrects errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization while preserving your original style, structure, and tone.

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