Guidebook: Designing an Alternative Assessment Where Learners Use GenAI

1. Introduction

The following guidebook will take you through the steps of thinking through your alternative assessment where students are invited to use GenAI to complete the task. There are a few more steps to consider than when designing an assessment that does not make use of GenAI. This guidebook will introduce you to these steps, pose questions to help you consider how you will integrate them into your assessment, and provide resources to help you.

You will note that you are not invited to write the student instructions for the assignment until every piece has been planned – writing the instructions is the second to last step.