Developing a good quiz or knowledge check is essential for assessing and reinforcing learning. But, as every course author knows, it’s also time-consuming. Designing questions that are clear, relevant, and aligned with your learning objectives isn't easy.

Effortless Quizzes

Available in Rise 360 and Storyline 360, the AI quiz generation feature allows you to create a full quiz based on existing lessons in just a few clicks.

Quick Tip: When details are missing, the AI model may rely on general knowledge compiled from its training to fill in gaps. For best results, provide as much context and source materials as possible. More information helps the AI model tailor content to your needs, and using custom prompts can further guide it to stay focused on your course content instead of drawing from general knowledge.

Rise 360

In Rise 360, go to your course overview, then select Add content > Quiz > Generate quiz. When the Generate quiz window opens, select whether to create the quiz with customization. Create quiz without customization is selected by default. Click the Customize a quiz radio button or directly type your prompt in the text box—set a focus topic, learning objective, and level of difficulty— then click the Generate quiz button. Once the quiz is generated, you can add more questions or edit existing ones.

Editing your quiz allows you to use AI to fine-tune the questions, answer choices, and feedback. Select the question, then click the Edit with AI button. For example, you can prompt AI to turn a multiple choice question into a multiple response and add more answer choices. 

You can also change the learning objective or increase the difficulty level. If you want to edit the question feedback, you can do so with the write and edit inline feature. Simply select the feedback text you want to modify and click the sparkle icon in the floating toolbar to start editing with AI. You have the option to generate new questions from here as well.

How many questions are generated?

The underlying AI model can have difficulty fulfilling requests for a specific number of questions. It generates questions covering the key points of your entire course, up to a maximum of 25. In practice, it tends to generate one to two questions per lesson.

Storyline 360

In Storyline 360, select the Quiz icon in the AI menu from the ribbon or chat directly with AI in the side panel. Select all or just specific scenes and slides as a reference, and then click Continue. Aside from slide text, AI also pulls content from the following as references when generating quizzes:

• All text on the base slide and layers
• Text-to-Speech scripts
• Audio and video captions
• Text and captions on markers and hotspot labels within 360-degree images
• Slide notes (if enabled in the Player Properties)

Next, choose whether to add the quiz to new slides or a question bank. When you choose the latter, AI will create a new question bank.

You can customize the quiz by specifying your learning objectives or asking AI to focus on a topic or difficulty level. Once the quiz has been generated, you can continue to refine it by adding, deleting, or editing questions. AI will also display a link in the chat that you can easily click to jump to the newly created questions.

Note: The number of questions AI generates depends on how much source content you reference. With limited material, you may receive fewer questions than you requested.

Single Question Generation

To insert a single question as a knowledge check, select the Question icon from the ribbon or chat with AI in the side panel. Select all or just specific slides as a reference, then click Continue. Next, enter a question topic or let AI choose a topic based on your content by clicking Preview the question. Once you have a question draft, you can further customize it. Get creative in providing additional directions for AI to follow, or try some of the following prompts:

• Adjust the difficulty level
• Change the Bloom’s Taxonomy level
• Change the tone and target audience
• Change the question type from multiple choice to multiple response, or vice versa

Once you’re satisfied with the draft, click Insert to generate the question.

Tips:

• AI uses the Question layout for question or quiz slides. Customize this layout if you want to apply your personal or company brand style to question or quiz slides generated by AI Assistant.
• To add interactivity, try a freeform question. Just copy the question draft and cancel the quiz generation process. Paste the content into a new slide, make adjustments, and then convert the slide into a freeform question.

Quick Knowledge Checks

Available only in Rise 360 and Frontline, a knowledge check block can be generated based on the current lesson. Go to the shortcuts bar at the bottom, click Block library > Knowledge check > Generate AI knowledge check or Block library > Generate AI block > Generate AI knowledge check. Enter a topic or select one from the AI-generated topics based on your content, select the question type—choose from multiple choice, multiple response, fill-in-the-blank, or matching—and AI will generate a full draft.

Prompt AI to make the changes you want to the draft, such as changing the learning objective, difficulty level, or question type. You also have the option to choose prebuilt prompts, such as changing the focus, answer choices, or feedback type. Once you’ve finalized the question, click the Insert knowledge check button below the draft. Your knowledge check is inserted at the bottom of the page.

Anytime you need to modify the block, simply hover over it and click AI Block Tools (the sparkle icon) on the left. You can select Edit with AI to edit the knowledge check using AI’s block editing feature.

Pro tip: Instantly convert blocks into interactive, AI-generated knowledge checks that boost learner retention by hovering over a supported block and clicking AI Block Tools from the content menu on the left. Choose Instant convert from the dropdown, then select Knowledge Check. The new knowledge check will be inserted right below the original block.

Video Tutorials

Want to learn more before getting started? Check out our video tutorials for additional guidance on using AI to generate quizzes and knowledge checks.

• Create AI-generated Quizzes in Rise 360
• Create AI-generated Knowledge Checks in Rise 360
• Create AI-generated Questions in Storyline 360

Articulate 360 Training also has additional video tutorials on using other AI features.

• Use AI features in Rise 360
• Use AI features in Storyline 360

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