UAlbany Lumi Pro Pilot – Spring 2026
CATLOE and ITS are inviting faculty to help us learn more about Lumi Pro, the generative AI feature in Brightspace. Please complete the short application form to indicate your interest in joining a pilot that will give you access to Lumi Pro in one course during the Spring semester.
Purpose
This pilot is designed to help us determine the usefulness of Lumi Pro for faculty. Feedback from pilot participants will inform campus decisions about broader implementation of the feature.
Lumi Pro Capabilities
Lumi Pro tools use course content and your guidance to help you develop learning activities for students. You will be able to use Lumi to do the following:
- Generate quiz questions (Lumi Question)
- Generate assignment ideas (Lumi Idea for Assignments)
- Generate discussion topics (Lumi Idea for Discussions)
- Generate module overviews (Lumi Summary)
You can use the Lumi features that best match your needs and your course.
Participating in the pilot
The pilot will launch in January 2026 and extend through the spring semester. We ask participants to engage in the following activities.
- Attend a kickoff meeting in early January and two additional check-in meetings during the semester to learn about Lumi Pro and share your experiences (dates and times TBD)
- Attend a training session facilitated by SUNY on January 16 (dates and times TBD)
- Commit to using at least one Lumi tool (Lumi Question, Lumi Idea, or Lumi Summary) to develop learning activities for your course
- Share your feedback on Lumi, both informally and by responding to two surveys during the pilot
Pilot resources
CATLOE’s Instructional Design and Support team will provide tailored support throughout the spring semester to ensure that faculty are aware of best pedagogical and ethical practices for using AI-generated activities. You will also have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of your colleagues.
Intellectual Property and Lumi Pro
SUNY’s agreement with D2L protects faculty intellectual property by ensuring that:
- D2L does not own input content.
- D2L does not own output content.
- D2L will not use input content to train the Generative AI models.
Ethical use guidelines
SUNY’s agreement with D2L requires that users will not represent that output content is human generated when it is not.
CATLOE will help you develop language to communicate how and why you are using AI-generated activities in your course.
Please contact Billie Franchini with any questions about the pilot.