Rumi enables the management of AI across writing assignments, providing detailed insights into student progress to enhance learning and preserve academic integrity. Rumi's policy framework allows faculty to customize AI guidelines at the assignment level.
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Rumi allows faculty to set AI policies for writing assignments in Canvas. Based on the policy, students can create papers using selected AI (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), and faculty can view the students' use of AI as well as track their path. Faculty will be able to see which content was pasted into the Rumi assignment and other insights into the student's writing process, including the percentage of content copied in, writing duration, and percentage of words revised.
Students write all content into the Rumi editor in Canvas. Based on the faculty's AI settings, they can ask for AI Assistance in spelling, grammar, clarity and conciseness, sentence structure, need for elaboration, or get feedback on content or writing. Faculty can also allow freeform AI prompts from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
To preview how Rumi works, view the Rumi Sandbox for quick demos of the faculty and student experience.
Note: Rumi is a limited pilot for the Spring 2025 semester. Faculty interested in piloting Rumi should contact support@stedwards.edu.
Rumi is an external tool integrated with Canvas.
View a video tutorial on setting up a Rumi Assignment.
To set up a Rumi assignment:
- Add an Assignment and add a title, instructions and points.
- For Assignment Type, choose (1) External Tool. Search for in the list of tools and select (2) Rumi Assignment LTI in the list of tools. Click (3) Save.
- Check the box to Load the tool in a new window.
- Leave the number of attempts at Unlimited to allow Rumi to control the number of submission attempts.
- Save your assignment and then load it to set the Rumi-specific settings.
View a video walk-through of setting up a Rumi Assignment.
These settings control what tools students have access to in Rumi. At a minimum, you may want to allow access to spelling and grammar checking through promptsets. If you want the students to also have access to a Generative AI model (ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude) you can enable that in settings also.
- Select the box to Load Assignment in a New Window.
- This places you on the Assignment Insights page. This is where completed student assignments will appear.
- Click the gear icon in the left menu to access Settings.
View a video on setting up AI Policy for an assignment.
- This is where you can specify what features of AI students can use for the assignment. With these settings, you can allow (or not allow) students to interact with AI models while writing in Rumi, and you can review these interactions while grading. There are multiple levels of AI interaction you can allow. Choose from the following options:
- No AI use - If your policy for an assignment is to forbid AI, you and the student will still have the benefit of revision history, similarity report, and other analytics. To implement a NO AI policy in Rumi, leave all of the AI policy boxes unchecked. If you leave all of these unchecked, students will not have access to anything except the Rumi editor and cannot use Rumi for spelling, grammar checking, or querying AI.
- Limit AI use - You can choose to allow only specific prompts to be used, such as Fix Grammar or Fix Spelling, or create your custom promptsets. Select Enable AI Promptset to allow students to use a selected set of AI Prompts.
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- Select an existing promptset from the menu. These prompts will be available to students:
- Content Refinement:
- Fix Grammar and Spelling(can replace text) -- Note: if this prompt is not enabled, students cannot access the built-in grammar and spelling checker.
- Enhance Clarity and Conciseness(can replace text)
- Improve Sentence Structure(can replace text)
- Elaborate More(can replace text)
- Give Feedback on Content
- Give Feedback on Writing
- Style Improvements:
- Improve Vocabulary(can replace text)
- Implement Smoother Transitions(can replace text)
- Improve Clarity(can replace text)
- Feedback:
- Give Feedback on Grammar
- Give Feedback on Structure
- Give Feedback on Content
- Give Feedback on Style
- You can also choose to build your own custom promptset by modifying an existing promptset or building an entirely new one based on your own prompts.
- To edit an existing promptset, select AI Promptset Builder.
- To modify an existing promptset, click on Import to the right of the promptset.
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- Enter a New Set Name.
- Edit or Delete existing prompts
- Click on Save.
- To create a new promptset based on your own prompts, click on Create New Set.
- Enabling freeform use of Generative AI
- If students are allowed to query one of the Generative AI models, select Enable Freeform AI Prompts.
- You can allow students to freely query or add reference material to be used for the AI responses. This can include course texts or specific documents. The context materials can be several thousand words long. You can upload a PDF or enter the text manually.
- Enable AI Feedback
This option uses the rubric created in the AI Assistant to offer feedback to the students. This requires you to use the AI Assistant to create a rubric for the class based on your assignment instructions. It tends to create a generic rubric, which may not be useful.
See the video on AI Policy in Rumi for examples.
If you want students to submit drafts for feedback and then build on those drafts for a final submission, choose Continuation Assignment. These assignments allow a student's prior submission to be imported into a new assignment without being marked as copied text.
To set up a multipart assignment
- Create the Part 1 Assignment using the Canvas integration with Rumi.
- Then create the Part 2 Assignment using the Canvas integration with Rumi.
- In the Part 2 Rumi settings, check the box for Continuation Assignment.
- Select the Prior Assignment or Part 1 assignment.
See the video on Continuation Assignments for more instructions
This feature is currently a Beta option, and its use is not recommended.
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- Instructor Review Type should be set to Post-Submission Review if you review papers after submitting them. The Pre-Submission Review allows you to see papers as students work on them.
- Peer Review allows students to review each other's papers.
- Check Access to Draft History. This allows students to see their writing history similar to how faculty see it. Allow students to see the draft history so they have transparency into how Rumi is recording their writing.
This section allows you to control how students access your comments in Rumi.
- Checking "Require Manual Approval Before Instructor Comment Release" prevents students from seeing your comments until you have finished reviewing the document.
- Notify via email would send an email to students for every new comment.
This feature enables students to view all versions of their assignment and revert to a previous version, similar to the functionality available in Google Docs.
This option will show students when Rumi has detected pasted text.
The AI Assistant in the Rumi menu is a rubric generator. You can enter assignment instructions, your own rubric or learning outcomes for the assignment. This will build a rubric for the assignment. Students can query the AI Assistant up to 3 times while writing their submission. The AI will evaluate their work based on this rubric. Verify that any rubric created with the AI Assistant matches your expectations for the submissions.
Note: The rubric is unique to each assignment and cannot be copied between assignments.
To use the AI Assistant, click on AI Assistant button on the Rumi toolbar.
After setting up an assignment in Rumi, you can use Student View to verify which options are available to students. In student view, you can enter content, test AI features, and view pasted content as a student would. However, you cannot submit a Rumi assignment because the Test Student doesn't have a dedicated email address