AI Conversations Overview

AI Conversation is an interactive activity which students to actively participate in a conversation and engage with course materials.  Instructors can create an AI Conversation in their course, outlining a topic, creating an AI persona, and selecting the type of conversation for the students to engage in. Within the AI Conversation functionality, instructors can choose between two conversation types: Socratic Questioning, in which the AI persona encourages students to think critically through continuous questioning, or Role Play, which allows students to play out a scenario with the AI persona. 

AI Conversation Best Practices

Consider these guidelines when participating in an AI Conversation:

• The more you put into the conversation, the more you will get out of it.  Providing thoughtful, clear answers will result in a better and more interesting conversation.  Take a position rather than sit on the fence with your responses – just pick a side and see where the conversation goes.
• Be cautious of the conversation moving away from the original question and getting off topic.  The conversation does, however, remain broadly within the domain of the original question.
• If your instructor hasn't communicated the amount of time you should spend on the activity, consider limiting your time; otherwise, the interaction continues indefinitely and the questions are recycled, getting you stuck in a loop.  
• AI Conversation doesn’t like being asked questions, but it can rephrase things when asked in a simpler form to better explain.
• The AI Conversation does not time out quickly so if you need time to think about your answer, then take some time.  If you want, you can "Save and Close" then come back later.

Socratic Questioning Conversation Example

Role-Play Conversation Example