Working on Your First Assignment: AI Assistant

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This guide walks through completing an assignment that uses Digication's AI reflection assistant: starting a conversation, pausing and coming back, and submitting when you are done.

Open your assignment

From your dashboard, go to My Assignments & Activities. You will see all the assignments your instructor has given you. Open the one you want to work on.

Student dashboard showing My Assignments and Activities with a list of assignments from instructors

You will see the assignment instructions your instructor set up. When you are ready, click Start to open the conversation.

Assignment detail page showing instructions and a Start button to open the AI conversation

Have a conversation

The assistant opens with a question based on the assignment your instructor designed. Type your first response. It does not need to be perfect. Just write what comes to mind. The assistant will ask follow-up questions based on what you say.

AI reflection assistant conversation showing the opening question and a text field for the student's first response

The assistant is not working from a fixed script. It picks up on what you actually said and asks something specific to it. That is what makes this different from filling out a form: it is a back-and-forth conversation.

AI conversation showing the assistant responding to the student's specific words with a follow-up question

The assistant helps you reflect. Each question builds on what came before.

AI conversation with multiple exchanges showing the student's responses becoming more specific and reflective

Pause and come back

When you need to stop, click I'm done for now. You do not have to finish in one sitting.

AI conversation interface with the I'm done for now button visible at the bottom

The assignment stays right where you left it. When you come back, it picks up where you left off.

Assignment list showing the assignment in an In Progress state after pausing

Reopen the assignment and your full conversation is there. Add more when you are ready.

Reopened AI conversation showing all previous exchanges intact with the option to continue

Submit your work

When you are done, click Submit. That sends your completed conversation to your instructor as your assignment submission.

AI conversation with the Submit button visible at the bottom of the completed conversation

After you submit, the conversation stays visible. Your instructor can review the full exchange: not just a final answer, but the thinking you did to get there.

Submitted assignment showing the full AI conversation still visible in a read-only state