Blackboard AI Design Assistant
Helps you build your course and saves you time.
Creating a new course from nothing can be a time-consuming task that involves a lot of repetitive work. Your institution may have limited resources for instructional design, or you may want help outlining your course. The AI Design Assistant helps you build your course and saves you time.
Select features of the AI Design Assistant were enabled on August 4, 2025.
AI Design Assistant Tools
Developed to assist faculty in streamlining course preparation, the AI Course Design Assistant tools include:
A course-builder assistant
Image suggestion and creation
Content-based assignment prompt generation
Content-based test generation
Rubric creation
Informed by Anthology’s Trustworthy AI Approach and seamlessly embedded into Ultra’s workflows, the AI Course Design Assistant tools are opt-in and the instructor is always in control of the content generated. Faculty can choose when, where, and how to leverage the tools in their Ultra courses.
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