Setting up Studiosity Validate in your assignment
Open your Ultra course, click the + sign in the Course Content area where you want your assignment go
Click Create >> Assignment (or find your existing assignment) and go to Content Market
Click your Studiosity Validate tool and you should see a configuration screen. Choose the relevant AI Assessment Scale and Validate Threshold (see details below).
Click Add Validate to Assignment
Click Insert then Save
Click the Validate link that is now visible in your assignment and wait a moment
You should see a screen as below:
Go back to your assignment and ensure Submission Details >> Text Entry is turned off - if this is enabled it can interfere with the student’s submission being returned from our system into Blackboard for grading.
Please note that we cannot disable both Text Entry and File Upload so the File Upload option will always be there. We would strongly recommend you include wording in the main body of your assignment advising students to submit via the Studiosity Validate link.
Finish creating your assignment as normal.
Setting the AI permission level
Set your Validation parameters next, starting with the AI permissions.
No AI: The assessment is intended to reflect the student's independent knowledge, understanding and skills without AI assistance at any stage
AI Planning: AI may be used to support early-stage activities such as brainstorming, outlining and initial research, while the final submission should reflect the student's own development and refinement of those ideas.
AI Collaboration: AI may be used to support parts of the task, including drafting, feedback and refinement, provided the student engages critically with the output and shapes the final submission in their own way.
Full AI: AI may be used throughout the task, with the emphasis on how effectively the student directs, evaluates and applies AI to meet the assessment goals.
AI Exploration: The assessment actively invites students to use AI creatively to explore new approaches, generate insights, or develop innovative responses within the task and/or discipline.
Setting the Validate threshold
The threshold sets how firmly the work must be anchored to the student, given the AI permission level you just chose from Essential, Comprehensive or Definitive.
Essential: Baseline benchmarks for authorship continuity and/or cognitive command signals. The baseline confirmation that the foundation is secure and the work is safely anchored to the student.
Comprehensive: Increased benchmarks for authorship continuity and/or cognitive command signals. A higher degree of certainty that the student is the primary driver of the work is required.
Definitive: Highest benchmarks for authorship continuity and/or cognitive command signals. The link between the student and the work must be rigorously demonstrated.
Accessing the educator portal
You can access your Studiosity Educator Portal by clicking any of the Studiosity links within Blackboard, for example the Global link, shown below in the Tools menu:
The Course Content Link which may be available in the course content area:
The Course link which may be available in the Books and Tools menu in the course:
Inside your educator portal
Inside your educator portal, the dashboard lists every assignment you've created, including due dates, validation thresholds, AI policy, and how many submissions are submitted, validated and graded.
Review full cohort results in list, and at an individual level
Open an assignment to see every student's status. Click a validated student's name to review their Human Factors, Authorship Continuity and Cognitive Command Q&A results, then click Grade Submission to jump straight into Canvas SpeedGrader.
How validation results are calculated
Learn more about the results here.