AI Agent Ally: Your Question Writing Helper (Ally is an Ally, or an AI-ly)-Introduction to Ally

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Ellie is an AI question-writing assistant designed to create first drafts for human review—not to replace subject matter experts (SMEs) or approve final exam questions. Administrators can specify topics, subtopics, Bloom’s level, difficulty, and guidance. Ellie first defines a single teaching point, then builds the question around it, making revisions easier. New questions are text-only; when images or videos are needed, Ellie derives a distinct question from an existing one, reusing its media and favoring questions with high discrimination indices. It uses OpenAI’s knowledge and uploaded LMS learning resources, but not existing questions as source material for brand-new questions.<br /><br />For SMEs, Ellie reduces the blank-page burden by offering drafts to select, revise, or discard. It can also help improve distractors, write rationales or commentary, and generate questions based on files SMEs upload.<br /><br />Ellie assumes human review is always required. It is a paid Tier 2 add-on, priced at 25% of the licensing fee, and must be enabled by support.

Keywords

AI question-writing assistant

first draft generation

human SME review

Bloom's taxonomy

LMS learning resources