What is the AI-Driven Feedback Activity?
Didask’s AI-driven feedback activity lets you personalize each learner's pathway. This activity allows learners to respond individually to a shared prompt, with the AI virtual coach tailoring feedback based on each response, fostering a more individualized, immersive learning experience.
🛠 How It Works
As the course designer, you’ll need to:
Title the Activity
Write the Instructions for the activity, which will be displayed to learners.
Optionally Provide Context about your learners, such as their level, to help the AI learning assistant understand the context better.
Define Objectives to guide the virtual coach in its feedback.
You can either choose from existing learning objectives in your project, or
Create new objectives tailored to the activity.
👉 For instructional design guidelines and step-by-step advice, see the "Design" section later in this article.
🎯 How to Select Your Objectives
1️⃣ We recommend selecting between 4 and 16 objectives. The virtual coach will review learners' submissions against these objectives and identify the top 3 areas where learners could benefit most from feedback.
👉 This way, each learner receives personalized feedback based on their needs.
2️⃣ Preview the Activity: Test the activity’s flow by previewing it as often as needed.
👉 Unlike learners, who have only one attempt, you can reload the page to simulate multiple trials. Learners will see only their response and any ongoing feedback dialogue with the coach after submitting their answers.
👨🎓 For Your Learners
Once the feedback-based activity is added to a publication in the learner catalog, learners can complete it as part of their learning path.
1️⃣ Completing the Feedback-Based Activity
Learners will:
Write a Response following the displayed instructions.
Submit the Response to the virtual coach.
Review the Coach’s Feedback on the top 3 selected objectives.
Refine Their Answer based on the AI’s feedback, enhancing their initial response.
2️⃣ Evaluating Mastery Levels
Each objective has three mastery levels within the AI’s feedback structure:
Achieved: No further action is needed on this objective.
Partially Achieved: Learners should expand their response to meet this objective.
Not Achieved: Learners must improve their response to fulfill this objective.
⚠️ Learners are granted one additional attempt to address objectives marked as "Partially Achieved" or "Not Achieved."
3️⃣ Completing the Activity
The activity is considered complete when:
All 3 primary objectives are "Achieved" in the initial submission, or
The learner successfully revises their responses to address any remaining “Partially Achieved” or “Not Achieved” objectives.
📊 Analyzing Activity Data
After publishing, you can track performance metrics for the AI-driven feedback activity on the publication statistics page.
1️⃣ Global Statistics
Access an overview with essential information, including:
Activity name
Number of associated objectives or resources
Duration of completion
Total learners who have completed the activity
2️⃣Individual Statistics
In the individual statistics export, each feedback-based activity will appear as a module, with columns for:
Activity name
Technical ID
Progression status:
0%: Not started
50%: In progress
100%: Completed
Time spent
👉 You’ll also find progression details on learners' profiles.
📝 Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Your AI-Driven Feedback Activity
Before creating the activity, define your instructional goals. This will help you shape the instructions, objectives, and vary activities if desired.
🚀 Defining Your Goals by Activity Type
Here’s a goal example for each type of feedback-based activity:
Recall Activity: I want my learner to recall what they’ve just learned (e.g., list best practices, define terms).
Application Activity: I want my learner to complete a task to apply what they’ve learned (e.g., write a cover letter, design a process).
Application Activity: I want my learner to complete a task to apply what they’ve learned (e.g., write a cover letter, design a process).
Reflective Activity: I want my learner to take a stance on a topic based on the training (e.g., “Why is your role as a school leader crucial for sustainability?”).
⚒️ Designing and Implementing Your Activity
1️⃣ Identify the Activity Type
Ask yourself:
“At this stage, what should learners be able to demonstrate?”
“What skills or knowledge should learners master before moving forward?”
2️⃣Create the Activity
Creating an AI-driven feedback activity includes two main steps: drafting the instructions and defining objectives. Ensure these elements are cohesive:
The instructions should enable assessment of the objectives.
The objectives should align with the instructions.
1/ Writing the Instructions
The instructions for an application-based exercise should include all the elements learners need to respond effectively. Learners engage more easily in an activity when the context is clear, allowing them to immerse themselves in the scenario, even if it doesn’t perfectly match their exact use case.
👉 Approach it as a scenario-based exercise.
2/ Selecting Objectives
Evaluation objectives should be based on “learning granules” (information or practice). You can pull from existing course objectives or create custom ones. ⚠️ Note: Only the objective itself is used by the AI, not the full granule content.
💡 Tips for Designing Objectives:
Develop a bank of reusable objectives.
Guide the AI to prioritize essential objectives.
🎨 Creating an Objectives Bank
Custom objectives can be formatted as specific actions or learning outcomes (e.g., “Instead of praising only effort, learners should recognize improvement”). If needed, create separate information granules for easy reuse across multiple activities.
This approach helps you avoid rephrasing errors and enables easy reuse of these objectives across multiple activities.
🧭 Guiding AI in Prioritizing Key Objectives
During the activity, the AI coach will first evaluate the learner’s response across all objectives and then provide feedback on the top 3 objectives it identifies as:
the most important…
for successfully completing the task…
based on the learner’s specific response.
This means that not all learners will receive the same feedback. If you believe certain objectives are especially crucial, you can guide the AI by marking these as “high-priority” with notes like “this is absolutely ESSENTIAL.”
👉 The AI coach’s feedback is based on these selected objectives, so choosing objectives intentionally is a crucial step.
For example: Untrained learners tend to praise someone for their qualities or talent rather than the effort made. Instead, they should focus on the learner's progress by acknowledging the effort—this is absolutely ESSENTIAL.
⚠️ Note: Avoid selecting all topic-related granules as objectives, as the AI coach's feedback may be inaccurate if the objectives do not align with the prompt provided to learners.
🏁 Verifying Your Objective Choices
To ensure your objectives are well-chosen, consider asking yourself:
Is there one correct answer, or are there multiple valid responses?
What specific skills or knowledge do I want to assess with this activity?
How will the learner respond to this question?
Will these points be effectively addressed with the provided prompt?
🤖 Testing the Feedback Activity
Testing an activity allows you to verify that your objectives and instructions are well-aligned and to adjust their wording if needed.
Put yourself in the learner’s shoes: How would they respond to this prompt? It can be helpful to ask a colleague who hasn’t worked on the activity to test it as well.
Test an average response that meets some objectives but not all.
Test a high-quality response that fulfills most or all objectives as a learner might write it.
👉 Keep in mind that the AI coach’s feedback can vary slightly with each attempt.
👉 This is a practice exercise; the AI coach may sometimes challenge learners to expand on a response that seems adequate, but the learner is not graded.
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