The Item Bank Health Check (IBHC) is Learnosity’s AI-powered tool, accessed through the Learnosity Console, designed to improve the quality of existing content within a selected Item bank. This tool enables large-scale content enhancement and quality control, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence to identify gaps, suggest improvements, and automate updates to Item banks.

The Item Bank Health Check is more than just a diagnostic tool - it is a comprehensive solution for continuous content improvement. By automating labor-intensive tasks such as transcript creation and bias detection, IBHC enables you to:

• Scale operations efficiently: Quickly update large Item banks without extensive manual effort.
• Ensure compliance and inclusivity: Meet accessibility standards and promote equitable learning experiences.
• Provide actionable insights: Leverage detailed reports and recommendations to guide long-term content strategy.
• Support global reach: Deliver translated and localized content to diverse learner populations.

Using IBHC, you can run a variety of jobs to analyze and enhance your Item bank. Below are the primary capabilities currently available:

Accessibility:

• Alt text generation: Automatically generates alternative text for images within Items where alt text is missing, improving accessibility and compliance with web accessibility standards.
• Audio and video transcription: Creates transcripts for audio and video elements within Items that lack them, enhancing accessibility for learners with diverse needs.
• Language translation: Translates Items into a target language, allowing you to localize content efficiently for diverse learners and global deployments.

Content quality and instructional value:

• Math hints generation: Creates step-by-step hints to assist learners in solving math-related Questions, improving the instructional quality of assessments.
• Correct answer validation: Reviews Items to verify whether the designated correct answer is accurate. If an error is detected, IBHC suggests a corrected answer for review.
• Distractor rationale generation: Generates distractor rationales for supported Question types, providing learners with valuable feedback on incorrect answer choices.
• Multiple choice to Essay with Feedback Aide rubric conversion: Converts multiple choice Questions into short-response format while generating a rewritten open-ended question.

Equity and inclusion:

• Bias check: Scans Items for biased or non-inclusive language. IBHC provides actionable suggestions for fixing flagged issues and supports the application of custom Guidelines for institutional or organizational standards.
• Representation report: Generates comprehensive reports to show how representative a Collection of Items is against predefined categories and supports custom Guidelines configurations to meet your organization’s unique requirements.

Standards and curriculum alignment:

• Standards coverage report: Generates a report showing how well Items in your Item bank align with US school standards.
• Synchronize Items with source material: Checks Items against a selected source document stored in your Knowledge Bank to identify content that may be out of sync with the source material.

Reporting:

• Custom Item report: Run your own query against a Collection of Items.