Coursera launches a brand new suite of Educational Integrity options to assist universities confirm studying in an age of AI-assisted dishonest

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera 

As we speak, we’re excited to announce a number of new genAI-powered options designed to scale evaluation creation and grading, strengthen educational integrity, and improve studying and analysis. These options, together with AI-Assisted Grading, Proctoring and Lockdown Browser, and AI-based Viva Exams will assist campuses ship genuine studying to college students whereas rising the worth of on-line assessments, programs, and certificates. 

On-line studying has grow to be a robust instrument for establishments to higher put together college students for a quickly altering world. Nonetheless, universities should guarantee it meets the rigorous requirements required for tutorial credit score. Whereas Generative AI introduces new dangers for pupil misconduct, it additionally gives unprecedented alternatives for universities to boost educational integrity at scale.

The options we launch at this time illustrate how new applied sciences can assist a extra genuine, verified studying expertise for college students, educators, and employers.  

Scale Evaluation Creation and Grading:

• AI Evaluation Generator – Saves educators’ time by producing numerous math, textual content, and multiple-choice assessments tailor-made to programs and seamlessly integrating them into assignments.
• Query Banks and Variants – Offers quite a lot of questions and a number of variants for sturdy testing, making exams troublesome to foretell and simpler to creator.
• *AI-Assisted Grading – Streamlines grading by suggesting scores and suggestions based mostly on task evaluation, with remaining selections remaining with graders.

AI Evaluation Generator

Strengthen Educational Integrity: 

• Graded Merchandise Locking – Requires college students to finish every lesson merchandise, together with readings, movies, and labs, to unlock graded objects, selling complete studying and stopping skipping forward. 
• Time and Try Limits – Controls examination makes an attempt to make sure equity, discourage trial and error, and restrict outdoors useful resource entry, encouraging significant engagement and reflection.
• Proctoring and Lockdown Browser – Maintains examination integrity by blocking unauthorized sources and detecting unauthorized help throughout high-stakes exams.
• Plagiarism Detection – Immediately identifies content material much like earlier submissions, deterring plagiarism and educating college students on impartial considering and originality.

Improve Studying and Analysis: 

• *Quiz Prep and Prior Studying Recaps with Coursera Coach – Offers a personalised tutor – powered by GenAI and grounded in our knowledgeable content material – that gives interactive studying help, lecture summaries, guided follow with spaced repetition, and tailor-made pre-assessment opinions.
• AI Peer Opinions – Facilitates peer suggestions with AI-powered insights, evaluating text-based submissions and producing grades utilizing task rubrics. In a worldwide pilot,  97% of surveyed Coursera Plus learners most popular AI grading over peer grading, citing higher suggestions high quality, elevated rigor, and decreased wait instances. 
• *AI-based Viva Examination – Analyzes free-form written submissions and grading standards to dynamically generate customized follow-up questions that take a look at the authenticity and important considering behind the coed’s submission. Permits educators to conduct viva-style written exams, the place college students ‘present their work’ and graders obtain detailed evaluation.

AI-based Viva Examination

As we speak, we additionally introduced the launch of a brand new course from Vanderbilt College – Generative AI for College Leaders, aimed toward higher getting ready educational establishments for the speedy change introduced on by GenAI. The free course is taught by Professor Jules White, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Generative AI, and options visitor consultants together with Andrew Ng of DeepLearning.AI, Mayank Shrivastava of SAP, and myself. The course covers all the things from how GenAI works and why it issues to how college leaders can create a GenAI technique and guarantee its applicable utilization on campuses. 

Collectively, the course and new options will assist universities handle the challenges posed by GenAI and uphold a tradition of educational excellence. This launch builds on our current recognition as the primary on-line studying platform to obtain ACE’s Licensed Tutorial Platform designation, serving to guarantee pupil outcomes genuinely mirror their effort, mastery after all materials, and abilities. These are main steps in the direction of boosting the repute and worth of on-line studying and trade micro-credentials, making it simpler for universities and employers to acknowledge them for tutorial credit score and as {qualifications} for employment. 

To study extra about Coursera for Campus educational integrity options, go to coursera.org/campus/academic-integrity. 

*These options are at present in pilot with choose prospects. They may grow to be obtainable to all campus prospects after the pilot part is full.