Why use BoodleBox?
BoodleBox offers a unique, secure environment for exploring artificial intelligence in academic settings. Unlike public AI tools, BoodleBox is designed with education in mind—providing access to multiple advanced models while maintaining institutional control over data and privacy.
At Yale, all documents, conversations, and knowledge generated within BoodleBox remain in the University’s protected environment. This ensures compliance with FERPA and other privacy standards, while allowing faculty and students to experiment, learn, and collaborate with confidence.
Whether you’re designing a course, conducting research, or supporting student learning, BoodleBox helps you integrate AI responsibly and effectively.
Key Features
- Multi-Model AI Access: Use over 500 specialized bots and orchestrate multiple AI models in a single conversation to generate comprehensive insights.
- Custom AI Assistants: Build personalized AI tutors, simulations, and instructional tools that reflect your expertise and course goals.
- Collaborative Learning: Enable group work with shared AI chats, allowing students and faculty to co-create, assess, and reflect on AI-enhanced learning experiences.
- Coach Mode: Develop AI literacy through contextual guidance and feedback that supports skill-building and ethical AI use.
- Secure & Compliant: FERPA compliant and SOC 2 certified, with full audit trails and governance features. BoodleBox ensures data privacy and institutional peace of mind.
- Educational Portability: Students retain access to their AI work after graduation, supporting lifelong learning and career readiness.
Use Cases for BoodleBox
Instructional Design
- Rewrite syllabi, lesson plans, and learning outcomes with AI support
- Generate formative assessments, rubrics, and feedback tools
- Create simulations and role-play bots for experiential learning
Student Engagement
- AI-Augmented Writing: Students draft essays or reflections with AI support, then annotate how the AI contributed to their thinking and structure
- Compare & Critique AI Responses: Students use multiple models to generate responses to a prompt, then analyze differences in accuracy, bias, and depth
- Collaborative AI Chats: Students work in groups using shared AI chats to co-author responses or projects, with individual reflections on the collaboration
- AI as a Research Assistant: Students use AI to gather sources, summarize articles, or generate research questions, with citations and ethical reflections
- Ethics & AI Reflection: Students engage AI on a controversial topic and write about the ethical implications of AI in discourse and decision-making
- Custom Bot Interaction: Students interact with instructor-created bots (e.g., historical figures, literary characters) to explore course content in new ways
Faculty Research
- Analyze large datasets using multi-model AI orchestration
- Draft proposals, literature reviews, and annotated bibliographies
- Build custom bots to assist with domain-specific tasks
How do I get started?
To learn more about how to use BoodleBox to facilitate your AI assessments, please reference:
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