Workshop Aim
By the end of this session, participants will:
- Understand key principles of assessment redesign in an AI context
- Identify structural vulnerabilities in their assessment design
- Make at least one concrete redesign decision
Session Structure (60 minutes)
The session moves through six stages, alternating between brief input and structured group activity. Keep transitions brisk to maintain energy in an online environment.
1 Opening Poll
0–5 minutes
Open with a live poll asking participants whether generative AI has changed how they think about assessment. Allow a minute for responses to populate, then invite two or three participants to share their reasoning briefly in the chat or verbally.
The purpose is not to reach consensus, but to surface the range of starting positions in the room and signal that this is a reflective, not prescriptive, session.
2 Rapid Framework Overview
5–15 minutes
Deliver a short presentation covering four key ideas from the framework. Keep slides minimal — ten to twelve slides maximum — and prioritise provocation over coverage.
- Validity over detection — why chasing AI detection tools misses the point
- Making learning visible — the shift from product to process
- Structural redesign vs rule-setting — policy is not enough
- Balancing AI-restricted and AI-integrated tasks — the two-track approach
Invite one or two chat responses after the overview before moving into the first breakout.
3 Breakout 1 — Risk and Purpose
15–30 minutes
Send participants to breakout rooms of three to four people. Provide a clear shared prompt in the room or in a shared document:
Breakout prompt: Each person briefly describes their assessment and its intended learning outcome. As a group, identify one structural vulnerability in each assessment and suggest a redesign direction.
Each person should have a chance to speak. The focus is on structural features — not tone, not style — that allow AI to perform the task in the student's place. Where is learning invisible?
Return participants to the main room after twelve minutes, leaving a few minutes for transition and settling.
4 Breakout 2 — Redesign Sprint
30–45 minutes
Return participants to breakout rooms (same groups or reshuffled). Each participant works on modifying their own assessment by adding one or more structural elements from the following:
- A process stage (e.g. a proposal, draft, or checkpoint)
- A reflective component (e.g. a reasoning statement or learning log)
- An oral element (e.g. a brief viva, presentation, or Q&A)
- An AI-use justification (where relevant)
- An authentic contextual task layer (e.g. a real client brief or local dataset)
Participants should note their redesign idea in the shared collaborative document so that all contributions are visible before the share-back.
5 Share Back
45–55 minutes
Invite two or three volunteers to share what they added to their assessment and why. After each share, the facilitator briefly highlights:
- What the change makes visible — what evidence of thinking or process is now present that was not before
- How the redesign aligns with the intended learning outcome
Use the shared document to draw connections between different participants' approaches. Affirm partial redesigns — even one structural change matters.
6 Commitment and Close
55–60 minutes
Ask each participant to write one sentence in the shared document — or in the chat — completing the following prompt:
"The one structural change I will make to my assessment this semester is…"
Read two or three aloud before closing. This creates a moment of public commitment and brings the session to a purposeful end. Leave the shared document open for participants to return to after the session.
Online Engagement Tips
Online workshops require deliberate attention to pacing and participation. The following strategies help sustain engagement across the full hour.
- Use chat and reactions actively — prompt participants to use the thumbs-up, heart, or raise-hand reactions at key moments; this creates visible participation even when audio is off
- Keep slides minimal — ten to twelve slides maximum; let the activities carry the session rather than the deck
- Use breakout rooms with clear prompts — paste the activity prompt directly into each breakout room chat so groups are not relying on memory
- Use a shared collaborative document — a single editable document (e.g. Google Doc or shared Miro board) makes participant thinking visible across the whole group and serves as a take-away record
- Maintain brisk pacing — announce time remaining at the halfway point of each breakout; end activities slightly early rather than running over