The assignments
The brainstorm-only essay
AIAS 2 · AI Planning
Students explore ideas and structure with the assistant, then close the conversation and write the essay alone. You review the gap between what the assistant offered and what the student actually used.
The Socratic essay
AIAS 3 · AI Collaboration
Students write an argumentative essay with a tutor that only asks questions and gives critique, and never writes a word for them. They learn the difference between feedback and ghostwriting.
The fact-checker's notebook
AIAS 4 · Full AI
Students brief the AI to write an explainer article, then verify every checkable claim against independent sources before deciding whether it can be published. The skill is directing AI and taking editorial responsibility.
The biased storyteller
AIAS 5 · AI Exploration
Students run a controlled experiment, changing only a name, gender or nationality in a story prompt, and analyse the patterns in what the AI assumes.
The framework
Built on the AI Assessment Scale
Each exercise is labelled with an AIAS level, a five-level framework for deciding what role AI should play in a task. The levels describe different kinds of task, not degrees of permission, so no level is better than another. The right one depends on what you want to assess.