Find Your Assessment

Enter a learning outcome, choose your course context, and select the role you want AI to play in this assignment. You will receive tailored assessment ideas, questions to push your design thinking further, and a ready-made prompt to take into any free AI tool if you want to go deeper.

AU School

Program / Major

Your Learning Outcome

Bloom's Level

Course Level

Course Modality

What role do you want AI to play in this assessment?

Role 01

Forbidden Tool

AI use is not permitted — assessment design should make this meaningful

Role 02

Transparent Partner

AI is allowed with documentation and citation

Role 03

Required Collaborator

AI use is mandated as part of the task workflow

Role 04

Subject of Critique

Students evaluate, challenge, or improve AI-generated output

Assessment Design Tool — Center for Faculty Excellence, American University

Learning Outcome

Design Add-Ons

These are not standalone assessment types — they are modifications, rubric additions, and grading policy tweaks that strengthen any of the suggestions above. Add one or more to close the most common AI-use loopholes in your design.

Want to Think Beyond These Suggestions?

Use these questions to push your design thinking further — especially if none of the suggestions above feel quite right for your course, your students, or your discipline.

Push Further with AI

Copy this prompt into any free AI tool — Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini — to generate additional, more personalized assessment ideas based on your specific course context. No account required for free-tier use.

Next Steps

Ready to go deeper? Bring your assessment ideas to a 1:1 consultation with the Center for Faculty Excellence. We can help you refine your design, build a rubric, align assessments across your course, and think through how to communicate expectations to students.

Book a CFE Consultation or email us at cfe@american.edu