The AI Question Generator: your co-pilot for more and better questions

You’ve probably heard of the term writer’s block: authors getting stuck while working on their next book. How should the story progress? How will the next chapter fit with the rest? As a learning designer, this feeling might sound all too familiar.

For example, it can be surprisingly challenging to come up with enough strong and relevant questions to assess your learners’ knowledge. It’s not just time-consuming; it also requires heaps of brainpower and creativity.

To make things easier, we’ve added the AI Question Generator to our platform. This handy tool supports you in creating multiple-choice questions and answers (and let’s face it, coming up with a convincing wrong answer isn’t as easy as it sounds!).

How can you use the AI Question Generator?

The AI Question Generator is ideal to quickly generate a large number of questions you can then blindly add to your learning journeys. After all, more questions—that’s what every learner wants, isn’t it?

Of course, that’s said with a touch of irony. AI offers incredible opportunities to make your learning journeys more engaging, effective, and impactful. However, as a learning designer, it’s essential to use these tools responsibly, always prioritising the needs and interests of your learners.

To help you make the most of it, here’s a rundown of the key applications for the Question Generator:

Getting started quickly

You want to present your learners with effective multiple-choice questions to test their knowledge and understanding, but you’re completely out of inspiration—and your SME is on holiday. What now?

The AI Question Generator can help you overcome the “blank canvas fear” of not knowing how or where to begin. By generating questions quickly, it provides instant inspiration to keep the momentum going. You don’t have to start from scratch, making the process faster and more efficient.

More and better assessments

Many learning journeys can become way more effective by incorporating more and better assessments. In reality, however, many learning journeys are lacking in this regard—often because it’s not easy to come up with enough unique and relevant questions. The AI Question Generator makes this process much simpler.

The tool generates suggestions for multiple-choice questions based on your input, such as a text from the content library or a learning module. Of course, you’ll still need to review the generated questions for accuracy, but the barrier to adding assessments to your learning journeys is now much lower!

Finally create adaptive learning paths

With the help of adaptivity in aNewSpring, you can ensure that your learners are only presented with content they haven’t yet mastered. What they already know can be automatically skipped. But how do you find out what someone already knows and what they don’t? Exactly: by asking questions, lots of questions!

Perhaps this has been holding you back from fully implementing adaptivity at scale in your learning journeys. The AI Question Generator now takes a large portion of the heavy lifting off your shoulders, so that’s one obstacle less on your learning path in your way.

Reinforce and retain with the MemoTrainer

The MemoTrainer is a useful feature in the aNewSpring platform that helps learners retain knowledge by repeating content and testing knowledge in manageable chunks over time. To make the MemoTrainer work effectively, you need a large number of questions. This can be a challenge, especially when it comes to creating variations within the same learning objectives.

With the AI Question Generator, you can quickly create alternative questions that align with specific learning objectives. This allows you to generate enough questions for an effective MemoTrainer much faster, without compromising the quality of the content.

Working in a didactically sound manner

As you can see from the examples above, this AI functionality makes personalised learning much more accessible for you as a learning designer.

It can be tempting to use generative AI simply to speed up the creation of more learning content, but if you're not careful, this could compromise the quality and effectiveness of your training. The real opportunity for you as a learning designer lies in using AI as a co-pilot. By making certain tasks quicker and easier, AI allows you to focus even more on creating the best possible training and, of course, on your learners.

But the benefit isn't just in getting more done in less time. We also ensure that the Question Generator takes didactic principles into account.

For example, while generating questions, you can apply the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to ensure that your questions align with specific learning objectives. This enables you to create questions ranging from simple knowledge-based prompts to more challenging ones focused on analysis or creativity. Not only does this add more variety and depth to your assessments, but it also makes the learning process more effective and tailored to the learners' level.

If you choose not to use Bloom’s Taxonomy, you’ll automatically get "standard" questions.

What our customers are saying

Here’s what the first users of our AI question generator have to say.

"I found the answer options for the questions very well formulated, better than ChatGPT 4. The answers are often logical, which makes the questions harder to answer." - Dorien, Shaer

"An incredibly useful tool with versatile applications. The feature to input text and generate a question from it is remarkably practical. It’s simple to use and, for me, saves the most time when working with my customers." - David, Cuble

The AI Question Generator is just the beginning. Behind the scenes, we’re working on even more AI applications that will help you improve your training. We can’t wait to share them with you!

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