With the upgrade to Moodle 5.1, eClass has some exciting AI enhancements coming! Read below for what will be available this May and what’s already in eClass for instructors and students now.

Note: The data provided to all AI features in eClass is neither shared nor used to train third-party models—all data remains with ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, and all information remains private.

Coming soon! AI Accessibility Fixer

The AI Accessibility Fixer is available to all users in the eClass text editor. This handy tool references Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and can help identify and fix issues in your content to make it more accessible to all users. Check if the accessibility icon is red before you post! If so, the fixer tool will tell you how to improve the accessibility of your text and can make the changes for you. Watch the icon turn green when there are no further suggestions.

Coming soon! AI Generate Text

Instructors can use the AI generate text button within the text editor in eClass to brainstorm ideas or draft content to add to their course. This feature is only available for instructors’ use (it is not accessible to students), and instructors must first choose to enable AI tools in their course to see this option.

Use Generate Text to quickly brainstorm examples, scenarios, or discussion topics for students

Use Generate Text to create templates or supplementary exercises for students

Coming soon! AI Summarize

Where enabled by instructors, the AI summarize feature is available to both instructors and students. This tool generates a short summary of the text within an activity or resource.

Use Summarize to condense content for slides or notes

Students: use Summarize to quickly review content when studying

Coming soon! AI Explain

Where enabled by instructors, the AI Explain feature provides both instructors and students with further information and context on content within an activity or resource.

Use Explain to explore more ways to describe concepts to learners

Students: use Explain to gain more context or get ideas for further research

AI Settings

The new AI Generate Text, Summarize, and Explain features are controlled by instructors at the course level and activity level.

Course Settings

At the course level, instructors choose whether to allow AI tools in the course. If set to No, AI Generate Text, Summarize, and Explain will be disabled across the course. If set to Yes, these AI tools can be toggled in each activity’s settings.

Activity Settings

When AI tools are enabled in the course, AI Generate Text, Summarize, and Explain can then be individually controlled for each activity. Note that these tools are set to On by default for all activities once AI tools are enabled in the course and the generate text tool is only accessible to instructors and not visible to students even when set to On.

AI Tools Available Now

AI Course Assistant

The AI Course Assistant is a block with two tools: the AI Course Assistant and an AI Learning Companion. By uploading documents such as your syllabus and course Q&A and selecting course materials in eClass, the AI Course Assistant becomes your trained, interactive assistant that can help answer questions about your course. Alongside that is the AI Learning Companion, a helpful tool that can act as a tutor for students to discuss or be quizzed on course material.

Both the AI Course Assistant and Learning Companion are hidden from students by default and must be set up by the instructor before being shown.

For more information on how to use these in your course, check out and .

SAVY

SAVY is an AI virtual assistant that is extensively trained on material about ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ. Chat with SAVY directly in eClass to quickly find resources and get answers about the York experience.

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Hey students! We’ve made some new changes to make learning in eClass better—from quiz and assignment notifications to help you make every deadline to a new set of AI tools to enhance your learning.

AI Tools

If enabled by your instructor, you can use the new AI tools to summarize or explain course content by using the AI features option(s) at the top of the course page.

Course Organization

There is now an Activities Overview page accessible from your course navigation bar. Here, you can find all your course activities and resources along with any key dates and details in one convenient, organized place. 

There’s also now an Expand all/Collapse all option within the course index (left-side menu), making course navigation even easier. 

Quizzing

New quiz notifications remind you when your quiz will open, confirm you successfully submitted your quiz attempt, and let you know when feedback is available to review. Additionally, no need to worry about losing your progress! You can now view when your responses were last auto-saved during your quiz attempt. And it's now possible for your instructor to provide grades for individual sections of a quiz, so you can see which topics or areas you can improve on and which you best understood. 

Assignments

The upgraded eClass makes managing due dates easy as you now receive notifications for upcoming assignments both one week and 48 hours before the due date as well as notifications if your assignment submission becomes overdue. 

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