You have an assessment task in progress, or at least a set of unit learning outcomes, and you want it to be better. Clearer. More purposeful. Better aligned. But redesigning an assessment from scratch takes time you don’t always have.
This workshop shows you how AI can accelerate and sharpen that process. Working step by step through your own material, you will use AI to develop or refine an assessment task, write student-facing instructions, and build a rubric, all in a single session.
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: In person only
Group size: Up to 30 participants
Bring along: a laptop or device, plus an existing assessment task or unit learning outcomes to work from
Facilitator: A/Prof David McMeekin
What you’ll do:
The guided session moves through three stages, each building on the last, and you will work on your own assessment at every step:
- Assessment design: starting from your learning outcomes or an existing task, you will use AI to shape or reshape the assessment brief, clarifying the task, aligning it to outcomes, and considering what kind of evidence of learning it will generate.
- Student-facing instructions: you will draft clear, well-structured instructions that help students understand exactly what is expected, reducing ambiguity without giving everything away.
- Rubric development: you will build or improve a rubric that reflects the assessment design, with criteria and descriptors that capture the learning you care about and are practical to use in marking.
By the end of the session, you will have a new or updated assessment, complete with task brief, instructions, and rubric – developed using AI as a practical design partner.