Tasks and AI checking – teacher's guide

1 Where to find tasks

Course tasks are managed on the Tasks tab of the course form. Tasks are open-ended (essay-type) tasks with a task prompt and a model solution.

Course→ Tasks tab→ ＋ Add Task

Tip: how answers are checked (AI or teacher), the grading method (points or approved / rejected) and where the task is shown (task list or topic) are chosen per task – more on this in sections 4–6.

You can also browse, preview and edit the tasks of all your courses in one place: Task banks → Course tasks (section 10).

2 Task mode

At the top of the tab you choose the task mode. Most of the time you use Normal mode.

Task mode (Normal / Learning path) and adding tasks.

Normal – tasks as individual cards.
Learning path – task groups with difficulty levels (Easy 4 p, Medium 6 p, Hard 8 p).

3 Task card fields

“＋ Add Task” creates a task card. The header row has the title, difficulty and maximum points; inside the card are the task prompt and the model solution.

A task card: title, difficulty, max points, task prompt + model solution (formatting and images), deadline and checking method.

Task title – shown to students and in the statistics.
Difficulty (Easy / Medium / Hard) and Max points (default 6) – the basis for scoring.
Task prompt – rich text (bold, italic, code, list, subscript/superscript) and images.
Model solution – the correct solution; it serves as the reference for grading. When you use AI grading, it is a good idea to add a rubric, i.e. scoring instructions for the AI, at the end of the model solution (see the tip in section 4).
Deadline + 🔒 Lock after deadline – prevents late submissions.
📝 Manual grading (no AI) – the choice of checking method (section 4).
Grading: Points / Approved / rejected – the grading method (section 5).
Show: Task list / In topic: … – whether the task appears in the course's task list or inside a topic (section 6).

4 AI or teacher checks

For each task you choose whether the answer is checked by AI or by the teacher. You make the choice with the “📝 Manual grading (no AI)” checkbox at the bottom of the task card.

🤖 AI checks box unticked

The default. The student app asks the AI for an assessment as soon as the student submits the answer. The student gets points and feedback immediately.

👩‍🏫 Teacher checks box ticked

When the box is ticked, the student app does not call the AI; the answer is sent to you for manual grading (“Course task submissions”).

The same checkbox controls who checks: unticked = AI, ticked = teacher.

Licence note: if AI grading is not included in your school's licence, the box is ticked in advance and cannot be unticked – tasks are then always graded manually. The card shows the note: AI evaluation is not included in your school's license — tasks are graded manually.

An approved / rejected task is also always graded by the teacher: when you choose it as the grading method, the box is ticked and cannot be unticked (section 5).

💡 Tip: add a rubric for AI grading

When a task is checked by AI, the AI gives points based on the task prompt and the model solution. You get more accurate and consistent scoring when you add a rubric, i.e. scoring instructions for the AI, at the end of the model solution. In it, say what the points are given for and how many for each part.

Example: scoring instructions added after the model solution, which the AI follows when awarding points.

Tip: separate the rubric clearly (e.g. with the heading “Scoring instructions”) and list the points item by item so that they add up to the task's maximum points. This way the AI's assessment matches your own grading more closely.

5 Grading method: points or approved / rejected NEW

With the Grading choice at the bottom of the task card you decide whether the task is graded with points or simply approved.

Points (default) – the task is scored out of its maximum points, and the points add to the course total. It is checked by AI or by the teacher (section 4).
Approved / rejected – the task has no points: the max points field is hidden, and 📝 Manual grading (no AI) is ticked and locked. The AI does not assess the task (Alaia's hints are still available to the student). You grade the submission in the Course task submissions view with one of three results: Approved, Needs revision (the student edits the answer and submits it again) or Rejected (the student cannot submit a new version). Needs revision and Rejected require feedback, and you can change the result later.

An approved / rejected task does not add points – it is left out of point totals (performance tracking, statistics, the course task points of an exam). In the course progress it counts as done once it is approved, and the student sees, for example, Tasks 0/5 (0/26p · approved 0/1). In unlock requirements the level is then Approved by the teacher.

6 A task inside a topic NEW

With the Show choice you decide where the student sees the task: Task list (default, the course's Course tasks panel) or In topic: [topic name].

A task placed in a topic appears on the topic page in the Tasks section after the description, material and quizzes: the card shows the title, deadline and status, and Open task opens the task prompt and the answer field inside the topic.
The task is not listed in the Course tasks panel, and the study calendar takes the student to the topic. If all tasks are placed in topics, the Course tasks button is hidden.
Otherwise the task works like any other: the same submission, grading, revision and completion.

Check the placement through the student's eyes with the Preview as student button on the course page.

7 How AI checking appears to the student

When a task is checked by AI, the student app works like this (in brief):

The student answers and presses submit. The app sends the answer to the AI for assessment.
The AI gives points and feedback. The app shows “AI feedback”, the points as points / max points and written feedback. It includes the reminder: “This is AI feedback and it may contain mistakes.”
The student chooses from three options: Submit anyway (sends the answer), Request justification (the AI gives new feedback based on the student's comments) or Keep editing (returns to the answer). In AI mode there is no separate “accept and send” button – the answer is submitted with the “Submit anyway” button.
The task is “passed” when the AI points are at least 50% of the maximum points (in a task graded by the teacher: the teacher's points are at least 50%). The requirement level of topics/the learning path can be “Passed (teacher: at least 50 % of points, or AI review approved)”.

The student's AI feedback view: points, written feedback, disclaimer and three options (no “accept and send”).

Without AI: confirming the submission

If the task is marked as manual (AI not in use, including approved / rejected tasks), the student gets no AI feedback. When they press submit, only a confirmation is shown, and the answer goes straight to the teacher for grading.

Without AI checking, submitting looks like this: just a confirmation, no points and no feedback.

AI assessments and the use of AI hints are saved in the student's course data, and a summary of their progress is synced to you, so you can see how students are doing in AI-checked tasks too.

8 Manual grading

When a task is marked as manual (or AI is not in use), students' submissions come to you for grading in the “Course task submissions” section of the navigation. You give points and feedback there by hand – in an approved / rejected task, a result instead of points: Approved · Needs revision · Rejected. See Course task submissions.

Answers checked manually are graded in the “Course task submissions” section.

9 Browse tasks and matriculation exam tasks

Instead of writing new tasks, you can pick ready-made tasks with the “📂 Browse tasks” button: choose the course whose tasks you want to borrow, and pick the tasks. Imported tasks appear as cards on the Tasks tab, and you can edit their points, deadline and checking method just like tasks you created yourself.

🎓 Matriculation exam tasks – import ready-made matriculation exam tasks into the course. See Matriculation exam tasks.
Task assistant – AI helps you write tasks and model solutions. See Task assistant.

📘 See also: Creating a new course →

10 Tasks of all courses (Task banks) NEW

The Task banks item in the main menu (Exam, course & quiz tasks) brings the app's task banks together in one view with three tabs. Course tasks are on the Course tasks tab – Tasks of all courses.

The Course tasks tab: courses and search on the left, the selected course's tasks with their labels on the right.

Search – find a course or task by name; ↻ refreshes the list.
Labels – each task shows its difficulty (Easy / Medium / Hard), points (Approved / rejected for an approved / rejected task), 📝 Manual grading, 🖼️ if the task has images, and the deadline (🔒 if submissions are locked after the deadline). Learning path tasks are grouped by task group.
👁 Preview – shows the task prompt and an expandable model solution.
✎ Edit – edit the title, task prompt, model solution (including images), difficulty, grading method, max points, deadline, 🔒 lock and checking method – in a learning path, also the group. The task's placement in a topic is chosen in the course editor.
🗑 Delete – deletes the task from the course.

Remember to publish: edits and deletions are saved to the course immediately, but students only see the change when the course is re-published (see Managing courses → Publishing). New course tasks are not created in this view but on the Tasks tab of the course editor.

The same view also has the tabs Exam questions (the exam question bank, see Exam question bank) and Quiz tasks (tasks for automatic practice quizzes, see Practice quiz).