Author Aide API is Learnosity’s AI powered Item generator and translator, which aims to supercharge productivity for your Authors.

Compared to the existing Author Aide product, Author Aide API is available as a standalone API to give customers greater flexibility for integration. Author Aide API can be accessed independent of any other Learnosity API.

Using Author Aide, authors can create Items containing different types of Learnosity Questions such as multiple choice, true/false or cloze drag-and-drop. Authors only need to add in a few basic prompts like topic, subject, grade, etcetera to generate the Items. Note: Author Aide currently generates a single question per Item.

Once the Items are generated or translated, authors have the flexibility to edit the Item before saving it into their Item bank. Authors can refine the generated Questions further by adding in their own instructions before saving, or even change their earlier prompts to start off fresh.

Creating Items with Author Aide

There are three ways that authors can generate Items in Author Aide:

1. Authors can specify a topic, e.g. “Velocity in space”, “Role of earthworms in soil conservation” etcetera, based on which Question should be generated. 
2. Authors can input a specific Question for multiple and true/false Question generation and Author Aide will generate the answer options for the Questions including feedback per answer option. For example, “What is the difference between speed and velocity?”, or “Earthworms eat other insects. Is the statement true or false?”, and so on.
3. Authors can provide their own instructions based on which Question should be generated. For example, “Create a scenario based question involving three kids named Jack, Jill and Pete travelling in a spacecraft. The question should test the learner's knowledge of gravity in space.”, or “Include a 250 word paragraph on the working of the human heart before quizzing learners on the functioning of the four chambers.”, and so on.

Enhanced Item Generation

For each of the ways to generate Items, Authors can also provide additional optional prompts like grade, subject, learning standards, DOK (Degrees of Knowledge), Bloom’s taxonomy level to check, and so on. Authors can also paste in their own learning content which will provide the information base from which the new Item will be generated.

Hint: The more prompts Authors add during their Item generation, the more refined and better the generated Item will be.

There are additional safeguards we have put in place for Author Aide to ensure the generated Items are free of biases, respectful and fair towards all topics. Author Aide will fail to generate content and will provide reasons if the prompts are mismatched, or if the prompts can lead to inaccurate or biased content. 

To use Author Aide API, you will need a valid subscription added for your Item bank which gives you credits to use in Author Aide. Credits are used for saving of the generated or translated Items.