Blackboard Ultra Student Guide
This guide is for Blackboard Ultra courses. Blackboard Original courses do no have AI conversations as an options. 
Not sure? See the article: Blackboard: Original vs Ultra
What are AI Conversations?
AI Conversations use Artificial Intelligence to explore a topic or scenario with an AI persona that was defined by your instructor. Your instructor will review your conversation with the AI persona after you’re finished with the conversation.
There are two types of AI Conversations:
- Socratic Questioning in which the AI persona guides you through a series of questions.
- Role Play in which the instructor can set up a simulated conversation by defining roles for both you and the AI persona.
Following each AI Conversation is a Reflective Question which lets you share your thoughts on the exercise and flag any errors or bias from the AI.
Your instructor will be able to review the entire AI Conversation as well as your remarks from the Reflective Question after it is submitted. AI Conversations may be graded or ungraded.
AI Conversation Transparency Note
If you have any questions or concerns about the use of Artificial Intelligence in AI Conversations, we encourage you to read about Anthology's Trustworthy AI Approach and review the article AI Conversation - Transparency Note on the Blackboard Help Site. These articles will further answer questions such as:
- What service powers AI Conversations? Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service.
- How is the AI system trained? Your data is not used to fine-tune the Azure OpenAI Service.
- Is client data used for (re)training the AI system? No
- Where is the AI system hosted? Multiple global Azure OpenAI Service instances, primarily in the United States.
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