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The Fill-in-the-Blank AI assistant helps you decide which words in a passage are the best candidates for blanks — based on conceptual importance. Rather than reading through a passage and manually hunting for the right words to remove, you get a set of reasoned suggestions you can evaluate, accept, or dismiss one by one.
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Using AI for Fill-in-the-Blank

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Create or open a Fill-in-the-Blank activity

From your classroom dashboard, create a new Fill-in-the-Blank activity or open an existing one you want to edit.
2

Paste in your passage

Paste the text you want to turn into a cloze-style activity. This can be your own writing, a textbook excerpt, or any passage from your curriculum materials.
3

Click AI Suggest Blanks

Select the AI Suggest Blanks option. The AI will analyse your passage and return a list of suggested words to blank out.
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Review suggested blanks with explanations

Each suggestion comes with an explanation of why that word was selected — for example, because it’s a key vocabulary term or a central fact in the passage. Read the explanations before deciding.
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Accept or dismiss each suggestion

Accept the suggestions that make sense for your learning objectives and dismiss any that don’t fit. You’re not committed to the AI’s list.
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Add answer variants and hints manually

For each accepted blank, add any acceptable answer variants (synonyms, spelling variants) and optionally attach a hint for students who get stuck.

How the AI selects blanks

The AI doesn’t blank out words at random. It targets:
  • Key concepts — terms or ideas that are central to understanding the passage.
  • Vocabulary — subject-specific words that students should be able to recall and spell.
  • Important facts — specific names, dates, or values that anchor the content.
For every suggestion, the AI provides a plain-language explanation so you can evaluate its reasoning and decide whether the blank fits your assessment goals.

Staying in control

AI suggestions are exactly that — suggestions. You make every final decision:
  • You decide which blanks go in. Accept only the suggestions that align with what you’re testing.
  • You set answer variants and hint leniency. The AI does not configure marking rules. You define what counts as a correct answer and whether hints deduct points.
  • AI provides suggestions, not final answers. The published activity reflects your choices, not the AI’s defaults.
Start with the AI’s suggestions and refine from there — it’s significantly faster than manually identifying blanks from a long passage, and the explanations help you think through your assessment intent.