AI tools for faculty
Drafts of multiple-choice questions, study notes, assignments and teaching cases, and a second reading of submitted work with a suggested mark. The teacher reviews every draft and decides every mark.
Built for the people who use it
- Faculty
- Question bank and quiz coordinators
- Markers and teaching assistants
- Programme offices
- Deans of academics
What usually prompts the call
- The question bank is too small to set varied quizzes without repeating questions.
- Notes and assignments are written from a blank page for every offering.
- Writing a teaching case with realistic detail takes days.
- A large batch of submissions needs a mark and individual feedback by a deadline.
What it does
Which of these are included in a deployment is set out in the proposal for that institution.
Question drafting
In the question bank, the teacher chooses a topic, a difficulty (Easy, Average or Tough) and how many questions, and can paste the syllabus content to cover. Each draft has four or five choices and one correct answer.
Review before saving
Drafted questions appear as editable drafts. The teacher corrects the text, choices and answer, ticks the ones to keep, and only those are saved to the bank, through the same path as a question typed by hand.
Study material
Notes on a subject and topic, for an audience the teacher names and optionally following an outline. The teacher reads the draft, sets its title, and either saves it to the document locker as a PDF or discards it.
Assignments
A problem set with the number of questions and total marks the teacher sets, and optional context such as the framework taught that week. Each question carries marks and guidance for the marker.
Teaching cases
A case about a fictional organisation, stated neutrally and stopping before the decision, with discussion questions that need judgement rather than recall.
Marking guidance kept back
The marker’s guidance for an assignment or case is saved with the document for staff and is not printed on the students’ copy. Drafted documents carry an AI label in the locker.
Marking suggestions
For a submitted file, a reading against the brief and the marking guidance: a suggested mark within the maximum, feedback for the student, strengths, points to improve, and a private note to the teacher where something should be checked.
The teacher decides the mark
The reading is shown only to the teacher. Copying it fills the mark and feedback boxes, which the teacher edits and saves through the normal marks entry, so term locks and mark ranges still apply.
From draft to issued assignment
An illustration of a typical sequence. Your own process is configured during implementation.
The teacher asks for an assignment on a topic, with the number of questions and total marks.
They read the draft and its marking guidance, set the title, and save it to the document locker as a PDF, or discard it.
Students receive the assignment and submit their work.
For each submission, the teacher can ask for a reading, which is checked against the guidance the teacher saved.
The teacher reads the work, copies in any part of the suggestion they agree with, edits it, and saves the mark.
For the next quiz, the teacher drafts questions on the same topic and saves the ones they accept to the bank.
Modules, switches and billing
Every feature needs the AI add-on. Question drafting also needs quizzes; study material, assignment drafting and marking suggestions also need the document locker. The institution’s administrator switches each feature on or off, and assignment drafting and marking suggestions start switched off. Use is billed per successful call, with optional daily and monthly spending limits for staff. Where the institution asks students to agree to AI-assisted marking, a student who has not agreed is marked without it. What is sent to the model is set out on the AI assistance page; the add-on is part of the OLT SIS platform.
Works alongside
Online quizzes
The question bank that drafted questions are saved into, with quiz structures, schedules and monitoring.
Learning management
Course materials, assignments and submissions, where notes and assignments are issued and work is marked.
AI assistance
How the add-on runs on Amazon Bedrock, what is sent to the model, and the institution’s controls.
Frequently asked
Does anything the AI writes reach students without the teacher seeing it?
No. Drafted questions are saved to the quiz bank only when the teacher ticks and saves them. Notes and assignments are shown as a draft and filed in the document locker only when the teacher saves them. A marking suggestion is shown only to the teacher and is not shown to the student.
Which modules do the features need?
All of them need the AI add-on. Question drafting also needs the quiz module; study material, assignment drafting and marking suggestions also need the document locker. The institution’s administrator then switches each feature on or off.
What file types can be read for a marking suggestion?
PDF, Word, plain text, Markdown, HTML, CSV and Excel files, up to 4 MB. Other files are refused before anything is sent, and the teacher marks them in the usual way.
See the faculty tools on your own subjects
Bring a topic you teach and the demonstration will draft from it.