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Question Assistant - BusyBee's companion for teachers

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BusyBee is a Buzz Add-on, currently enabled only for select pilot customers

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Teachers can use the BusyBee Question Assistant to help them create comprehension questions based on the content in an activity or a passage. BusyBee tailors questions to match lesson goals, allowing you to focus more on teaching while BusyBee handles the question generation.

Create content sources for the Question Assistant

Before following the steps below, create the Activity or Passage question that you want the questions based on.

The following Activity types can be used as content sources for the Question Assistant when they are not gradable:

The Question Assistant can also use a Passage question within the assessment as content.

BusyBee needs relevant content to help

To generate responses,  Question Assistant requires at least 50 words of total, relevant content to be present between the following items :

  • The selected activity's Content field
  • Learning objectives with the selected activity
  • The selected activity's Description field
  • The selected Assessment templates' HTML file (In order to generate questions, you must save the activity after uploading the template file.)
  • The selected Passage question (Content pulled from a passage is used alone, so it must meet the requirements on its own.)

Question Assistant requires text-based activity content. This is particularly important to remember with media content like YouTube videos or file attachments that are images.

Create questions with the Question Assistant

To create questions with the Question Assistant:

  1. Add an assessment activity to your course.
  2. On the Questions tab of the Assessment editor, click Add question.
  3. Select Open question assistant.
  1. Choose the content you want the questions to be based on and click Next.
    • Use template from this assessment appears as an option if you are editing an Assessment template. Selecting it allows you to generate questions based on the template file you've provided. (In order to generate questions, you must save the activity after uploading the template file.)
    • Choose activity allows you to select any supported activity type.
    • Passage question allows you to select a passage from the assessment you're editing.
  1. Select your desired Question difficulty (Basic, Intermediate, Challenging, Advanced, or Expert).
  2. Enter the Desired number of questions (up to 10).
  3. Select the Question types you want to allow the assistant to generate (Multiple choice, Multiple answer, Essay, and Fill in the blank).
    • Fill in the blank questions are automatically Case insensitive, ignoring uppercase/lowercase discrepancies.
    • Multiple answer questions automatically allow partial credit scores.
  4. Enter any Additional instructions you'd like the assistant to consider in generating the questions.
  5. Click Generate questions.
  1. Review the generated questions and edit the provided correct answers if desired.
  2. Check the box next to the questions you want to add to your assessment.
  3. Click Add selected.

The selected questions are added to the assessment with an AI icon indicator.

Review them for accuracy and effectiveness and make any necessary changes. Click Preview to view the questions as a student.

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