Week 1 Discussion

Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?

The Rise video was very helpful this week. I have been using AI Assistant for a while, but there were several tips and tricks I was not aware of. Two that I know will be very useful to me relate to creating courses and editing part of a block. When creating a Rise course with AI, I have always just uploaded my source files and then generated my course. I did not realize that you could specify the purpose of each file through source material settings. This will help align the initial Rise course with desired outcomes and hopefully minimize edits. I also was not aware that you could use AI Assistant to modify part of a block. Whenever I wanted to edit part of a block, I would duplicate the block, remove the extra information, and then select AI Assistant at the block level. Seeing all of the options available when highlighting text will be a big timesaver.

What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?

I like using flipcards, but I have always wanted more customization options on the front side. For example, I would like to have a solid background with text on top. The only way I know to do that consistently is use another program to create solid color images with the desired text and then upload. I thought maybe using AI prompts would give me a workaround. However, I am still struggling with AI generation consistency. The font doesn’t always look the same and the background color (even with the same hex codes) sometimes looks different. It would be great to be able to modify all of the cards to look the same (whether that is with AI or additional customization settings within the block).