HyComm LabAI Playground

HyComm Lab · AI Playground

AI Playground

Every AI tool from the programme in one place, plus four assistants you can talk to. Everything in the first two sections runs inside this site with your HyComm login and saves to your portfolio; the GPT assistants in the last section open in ChatGPT with a free account. Nothing here is graded, and nothing here should contain a student’s name.

Assistants4, chat

Tools7, form-based

GPT assistants7, in ChatGPT

The assistants and tools work with your HyComm account, so that what you write lands in your portfolio. Enrol for free or sign in. The GPT assistants at the bottom of the page need no HyComm account.

Talk to an assistant

Four conversations, running inside this site

How these work

Each assistant has a fixed role and stays inside the training content. It remembers the conversation on this page, and the conversation is saved to your portfolio; Start again clears it. Replies take a few seconds. Forty AI requests an hour per person, shared across tools and assistants.

Workshop Assistant

Knows the whole programme. Ask where something is covered, what to do in the next forty-five minutes, or how to handle a HyFlex problem this week.

Start again

Hello. I know the eight modules of the programme and can point you to the right lesson, plan a short work session, or suggest three moves for a HyFlex problem you are facing. What would you like to do?

Where is equivalency explained?I have 45 minutes today. What should I do in Module 4?Live students dominate and online students are quiet.How do I measure whether asynchronous students are keeping up?

Send

Grounded in the programme map. It does not know your course; tell it what it needs. No policy, legal or HR advice.

Flexible Quiz

Self-assess any module or lesson. Choose traditional, scenario-based or mixed questions, standard or adaptive difficulty, one item at a time, with feedback and a summary at the end.

Start again

Welcome. Tell me which module or lesson you want to be quizzed on, whether you prefer traditional questions, a branching scenario or a mix, and whether the difficulty should stay steady or adapt to you.

Module 8, mixed format, adaptiveModule 1 Lesson 1, traditional questionsA branching scenario from Module 3Quiz me on the whole of Module 5

Send

Practice only: nothing here counts towards the knowledge checks in the lessons.

Breakout Companion

A fellow learner to think out loud with. Give it a discussion prompt from a lesson, or a topic of your own, and it talks the way a classmate in a breakout room would: short, curious, sometimes disagreeing.

Start again

Hi, I am your breakout partner for this one. What are we discussing today? Paste the prompt or just tell me the topic, and say what you find interesting about it.

Let us discuss whether recorded lectures are really equivalent to live ones.Here is my forum prompt from Module 2. Start the discussion with me.Ask me a question about AI feedback the way a classmate would.

Send

A peer, not an expert. When you are done, ask for a summary for your debrief. Do not paste student names.

Benefits of HyFlex coach

Scenario-based coaching from Module 1: a situation from the student, faculty, institution or family perspective, then questions that check whether you can name the benefits at work and see them in your own setting.

Start again

Hello. I am going to give you a series of short scenarios that show HyFlex benefits in action, and ask what you see in them. Are you ready to begin, and which perspective would you like first: student, faculty, institution or family?

I am ready. Start with the student perspective.Let us look at the institution first.Give me a family perspective.

Send

Based on the programme’s Benefits of HyFlex assessment, running inside this site with no account beyond your HyComm login.

Use a tool on your own course

Seven standalone tools from the lessons

The same tools as in the lessons, without the lesson around them. Your four context answers arrive filled in if you saved a profile in the orientation lesson. Open a tool, fill the fields, run it; the output is saved and appears in your portfolio under AI Playground.

Route Planner

Orientation

Orientation tool

Route Planner

Reads your context, your self-assessment and the time you have, and proposes an order for the modules with a realistic weekly plan. Read it as a proposal: you know your term better than it does.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · What you want, what worries you, what you can give

What you want from the programme · required

What worries you most about HyFlex · required

Hours per week you can honestly give · required

Your self-assessment, strongest to weakest · requiredCopy the pattern from the eight statements above.

Not sure what to write? Load a worked example

Nuria teaches first-year statistics to 140 students, a third of whom watch the recordings, and has three hours a week until February.

Loading the example replaces whatever is in the form. Your profile is not affected.

Benefits of HyFlex, in a scenario

Module 1 · Lesson 2

From Module 1 · Lesson 2

Benefits of HyFlex, in a scenario

The assistant writes a scenario from the perspective you choose and asks you which benefits are being realised; then it assesses your answer and asks whether the same would hold in your setting.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · The scenario

Perspective · required

Your answer

Which one or two major benefits are being realised, and how can you tell?

Would the same benefits appear in your own setting? Why or why not?Fill both, then run the second step.

Activity Redesign

Module 4 · Lesson 2

From Module 4 · Lesson 2

Activity Redesign

Redesigns a collaborative activity so that in-person, live online and asynchronous students reach the same outcome with comparable demand, checked against the six-item alignment list; then does the same for an activity of your own.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · The case redesign

The real-world challenge student groups would work on · required

Tools your students can reach in every mode · required

Your own activity

One activity from your own course that you want redesigned the same wayFill it, then run the second step.

Evaluation Plan Builder

Module 7 · Lesson 4

From Module 7 · Lesson 4

Evaluation Plan Builder

Drafts an evaluation plan for your course as a table of components (area, question, framework level, tool, timing, analysis, action), then reviews it against quality rubrics, frameworks and privacy and names the one change to make before term starts.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · The canvas, six boxes in your own words

Why HyFlex for you; your evaluation questions; the framework (Kirkpatrick or Beatty); tools and data sources; analysis and privacy; the improvement cycle · requiredLeave a box as not yet written and the builder proposes it. Describe data in general terms; no names, no student IDs.

Anything you already know you will use: a first variable, two tools, a lesson from a case · optional

Empathy and Clarity Coach

Module 8 · Lesson 2

Module 8 tool

Empathy and Clarity Coach

Remove student names and anything identifying before you paste a real message. The assistant works only with what you give it and stays inside the training content.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · The message and its context

The message as you actually wrote or said it

What was going on for the student, as far as you know

Not sure what to write? Load a worked example

The reply Yusuf received in Lesson 1, as Dr Laurent might have described it, with the context that produced it.

Loading the example replaces whatever is in the form. Your notebook entries are not affected.

Taking it across the modes

Who else needs this message, and in which mode

The misreading you are most worried about

Fill both, then run the second step.

Recovery Planner

Module 8 · Lesson 3

Module 8 tool

Recovery Planner

Two steps: first the revised timeline for the session that broke, then the recovery plan and deadline structure for the students who were affected. The assistant works only with what you type here.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · The session and what happened to it

The session as you planned it

What went wrong, and how many minutes it cost

The learning outcome that must survive

Not sure what to write? Load a worked example

Tomas teaches first-year statistics and lost ten minutes to a projector failure in a session with forty in the room and twenty online.

Loading the example replaces whatever is in the form. Your notebook entries are not affected.

The recovery, for the group that fell behind

Who is behind, and by how much

Your own constraints for the next two weeks

Fill both, then run the second step.

Collaboration Map and Improvement Planner

Module 8 · Lesson 4

Module 8 tool

Collaboration Map and Improvement Planner

The first step reads your network and names the gaps worth closing. The second builds the continuous improvement action plan around them, using the reflection you wrote in step four.

Your context, the same four questions in every tool

Subject · required

Course level · required

The mode most of your students use · requiredFilled from your profile if you saved one in the orientation lesson.

Cohort size · optional

1 · Your collaboration network

Who you currently work with

Where the collaboration feels thin

Not sure what to write? Load a worked example

The instructor from the case study, mapping her own network before the co-creation project.

Loading the example replaces whatever is in the form. Your notebook entries are not affected.

For the improvement plan

Your reflection from step four

The evidence you can actually reach

Fill both, then run the second step.

GPT assistants in ChatGPT

Open in ChatGPT, free account, no HyComm login needed

Seven custom GPTs built for the programme by the HyComm team. They open in a new tab; if ChatGPT asks you to sign in, a free account is enough. Do not paste student names or anything sensitive into them.

HyComm Workshop Assistant

Answers questions about the programme, suggests next steps and adapts guidance to in-person, live online and asynchronous participation. The same assistant as the one above, in ChatGPT, with the module documents attached.

Try saying: Where am I supposed to be in Module 1?

Open in ChatGPT

HyComm Flexible Quiz

Self-assessment in a flexible format: traditional, scenario-based or mixed, with immediate feedback and study suggestions.

Try saying: I would like a scenario quiz on Module 2.

Open in ChatGPT

Module 1 · Exploring HyFlex Practice

Guides you through common HyFlex challenges, the flexible mindset they require and implementation experiences to learn from as you begin planning.

Try saying: Show me a challenge about student mode-switching.

Open in ChatGPT

Module 1 · Benefits of HyFlex Assessment

Scenarios from the student, faculty, institution and family perspectives, with questions that check your understanding of the benefits and apply them to your own context.

Try saying: I am ready. Please give me the first scenario.

Open in ChatGPT

Breakout Buddy · Course Redesign Studio

By Rob Gray. A two-person breakout simulation for redesigning your course for HyFlex, keeping learning outcomes at the centre. Type DEBRIEF at the end for a clean summary.

Try saying: I am redesigning [course] for a HyFlex environment. I want to be Student A.

Open in ChatGPT

Breakout Companion

A peer discussion partner for breakout groups. Give it a prompt or topic and it explores ideas with you the way a classmate would.

Try saying: Here is my group prompt. Start the discussion with me.

Open in ChatGPT

Planning for Evaluating Impact

Walks through your reasons for HyFlex, evaluation criteria and planning steps, then drafts an evaluation plan with a table of components. Used in Module 7, Lesson 4.

Try saying: I want to plan how to evaluate my HyFlex course.

Open in ChatGPT

The prompt to paste into Breakout Buddy

Fill in the brackets, paste the whole thing as your first message, and type DEBRIEF when you want the summary.

I’m redesigning [Course title + level] for a HyFlex environment.
My key learning outcomes are: [Outcome 1], [Outcome 2], [Outcome 3].
Typical learning activities include: [e.g., discussion, labs, projects, workshops].
Assessments include: [e.g., papers, exams, presentations, problem sets].
Constraints I need to plan for: [e.g., attendance flexibility, group work, accessibility, tech limits].
I want to be Student A. Help me redesign the course so outcomes drive the modality and tool choices.

Aim to leave the conversation with three concrete design changes, a note on how each supports a learning outcome, and one question you would bring to the whole group.

Privacy

Nothing you type into the assistants or tools on this page is used to train any model, and none of it leaves the site except as the request that produces the reply. Even so: no student names, no marks, no identifying details, anywhere on this page or in the GPT assistants.