AI Assistant: Building Effective Quizzes and Knowledge Checks

Developing a good quiz or knowledge check is essential for assessing and reinforcing learning. But, as every course author knows, it’s also time-consuming. Designing questions that are clear, relevant, and aligned with your learning objectives isn't easy.

Effortless Quizzes

Available in Rise 360 and Storyline 360, AI Assistant’s quiz generation feature allows you to create a full quiz based on existing lessons in just a few clicks.

Rise 360

In Rise 360, select Quiz generation from the AI Assistant dropdown menu within the course overview page. Customize your questions via prompt—set a focus topic, learning objective, and level of difficulty—or skip directly to quiz generation. Once the quiz is generated, you can open it to see more options, such as adding or editing questions.

Editing your quiz allows you to use AI Assistant to fine-tune the questions, answer choices, and feedback. For example, you can prompt AI Assistant to turn a multiple choice question into a multiple response and add more answer choices. You can also change the learning objective or increase the difficulty level. If you want to edit the question feedback, you can do so with the write and edit inline feature. Simply select the feedback text you want to modify and click the sparkle icon in the floating toolbar to start editing with AI Assistant. You have the option to generate new questions from here as well.

Please note that Fill in the Blank and Matching question types are currently not supported.

Storyline 360

In Storyline 360, select the Quiz icon in the AI Assistant menu from the ribbon or click the Generate quiz button from the AI Assistant tab in the side panel. Select all or just specific scenes and slides as a reference, and then enter a prompt to customize the questions. You can also skip customization to generate the questions in a new slide or a question bank. When you choose the latter, AI Assistant will create a new question bank and insert a new slide draw from it.

For best results, specify your learning objectives or ask AI Assistant to focus on a topic or difficulty level.

The underlying AI model can have difficulty fulfilling requests for a specific number of questions, but you can use the word count of your text content to determine how many questions are generated. Initially, AI Assistant splits text content into segments of 1,000 words each, with a maximum of seven segments. If your text content exceeds 7,000 words, AI Assistant splits them evenly over seven segments to stay within the limit. Each segment returns two questions, so you’ll always get at least two questions, up to a maximum of 14, depending on the total word count.

Once the quiz has been generated, you can continue to refine it by adding, deleting, or editing questions. AI Assistant will also generate a link that you can easily click to jump to the newly created questions.

Note that when you replace a question after editing, the original question slide will be deleted and a new slide added with the new question. Any other objects or custom triggers on the original question slide will be lost. To prevent that loss, choose the Insert below option and then copy and paste objects into the new slide before deleting the original question slide.

Single Question Generation

To insert a single question as a knowledge check, select the Question icon from the ribbon or click the Generate question button in the side panel. Select all or just specific slides as a reference, and then enter a topic. AI Assistant generates a full question draft that you can modify using custom prompts. Get creative in providing additional directions for AI Assistant to follow, or try some of the following prompts:

• Adjust the difficulty level
• Change the Bloom’s Taxonomy level
• Change the tone and target audience
• Change the question type from multiple choice to multiple response, or vice versa

You also have the option to choose one of the prebuilt prompts—either Change focus or Add an answer. Once you’re satisfied with the draft, click Insert to generate the question.

Pro tip: To add interactivity, try a freeform question. Just copy the question draft and cancel the quiz generation process. Paste the content into a new slide, make adjustments, and then convert the slide into a freeform question.

Quick Knowledge Checks

Available only in Rise 360, a knowledge check block can be generated based on the current lesson. Go to the AI Assistant menu in the upper right and then choose Generate knowledge check when you’re inside a lesson. You can also find this option in the block library under the Knowledge Check menu. AI Assistant will generate a full draft, which you can modify with prompts.

Prompt AI Assistant to make the changes you want, such as changing the learning objective, difficulty level, or question type—from multiple choice to multiple response, or vice versa. You also have the option to choose prebuilt prompts, like changing the focus or answer choices. Once you’ve finalized the question, click the Insert block button below the draft. Your knowledge check is inserted at the bottom of the page.

Anytime you need to modify the block, simply hover over it and click AI Block Tools (the sparkle icon) on the left. You can select Edit with AI to edit the knowledge check using AI Assistant’s block editing feature.

Video Tutorials

Want to learn more before getting started? Check out our video tutorials for additional guidance on using AI Assistant to generate quizzes and knowledge checks.

• Create AI-generated Quizzes in Rise 360
• Create AI-generated Knowledge Checks in Rise 360
• Create AI-generated Questions in Storyline 360

Articulate 360 Training also has additional video tutorials on using other AI Assistant features.

• Use AI Assistant features in Rise 360
• Use AI Assistant features in Storyline 360

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