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How to Set Up Compass Assignments

Creating and Configuring Compass Assignments

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Written by Portia Restuccia
Updated over a week ago

Creating a Vocareum Compass Assignment

  1. From the course page select Edit Assignment

  2. Select "New Assignment".

  3. Create a name for the assignment and select “Compass” as the assignment type.

  4. Click save and continue.

  5. After the assignment is created, click on the assignment on the left to get to the Assignment settings.

  6. Under Actions select Configure Workspace.

Configuring Your Compass Assignment

  1. First select the domain(s) you want to cover in the assignment.

  2. Select one of the three Compass assignment types:

    1. Mastery-Based: Set proficiency threshold

      1. Students work through the concept map(s) in the domain(s) selected, unlocking dependent concepts once they reach the proficiency threshold.

    2. Personalized Learning: Adaptive, no fixed threshold

      1. Similar to mastery-based, students work through the map(s) in the domain(s) selected, unlocking dependent concepts as they go. There is no set proficiency level to unlock and the next question presented to students is adaptive based on previous performance and questions asked of the AI tutor.

    3. Question Group/Pool: Instructor-curated set (homework and practice exam use case)

      1. Select a question group created for the domain (see the Authoring article for more information) and choose either sequential (all questions in the group in the set order) or random (a set number of questions from the group in random order)

  3. Set the tutor prompt for pre and post student submission.

    1. Tips for prompting:

      1. Include context around the level of your course. For example: “Keep explanations to a precalculus level”.

      2. Include style and response guidelines. For example: “Keep responses UNDER 500 characters, reply with a Lexile level of 900L or lower, format your answer to use fewer words, avoid paragraphs and chunks of text.

      3. Put important information in all caps. LLMs respond more strongly to emphasized constraints.

      4. Use student view to test the tutor and tweak behavior before publishing the assignment.

  4. Determine settings. Settings can be set to always, never, only after submission and only after correct submission.

    1. Virtual tutor availability determines when students can ask questions of the tutor and use the “Explain how to solve this.” quick action button

    2. Hints availability determines when students can view the pregenerated and vetted hint linked to the question using the “I need a hint to get started.” button.

    3. Explanation availability determines when the pregenerated and vetted explanation linked to the question shows up.

    4. Feedback availability determines when AI-generated feedback is given post-submission for free response problems (can only be set to always or never).

    5. AWS Cloud Account Availability is only relevant if there are questions that are AWS Cloud Labs. This allows you to determine if a new account should be used for each question or if accounts should be retained across the whole assignment.

  5. Click Save

  6. To test, you can click “Student View” in the top right, or on the Edit Assignments page.

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