Purpose: A plain look at what Dialogue is actually being used for today, to help you think about whether and how it fits your course.

Conversational Practice

The core use case: students work through course material by talking with a Dialogue AI Persona, a configured AI personality built for a specific course or purpose. One example is a use case built around an AI persona referred to as Mrs. Chen. This is generally lower-stakes, meant for practice and engagement with material rather than formal assessment.

Oral Assessment

Dialogue can be used as an oral assessment suite. Students are evaluated on a rubric, and scoring goes to the instructor. This is a structured, assessment-oriented use case.

Multi-Step Activities

A single Dialogue activity can combine steps, for example, a spoken discussion of an assignment followed by a separate text-based feedback conversation. This lets an activity move a student through more than one kind of interaction (voice, text, submission) in a single flow.

Choosing a Use Case for Your Course

A few questions worth asking yourself before setting one up:

• Is this practice, or is it graded? That affects whether you want a rubric attached and how much weight the activity carries.
• Does it need more than one step? If you want students to submit something and then discuss it, or get feedback after a conversation, that's a multi-step setup.
• What do students need to know going in? Whatever you decide, make sure students understand what the activity is for and what's expected of them (see the Academic Integrity guide for learners).

Questions

For help setting up a specific use case for your course, reach out to your Noodle contact.