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DigiEduHack 2025

Rethinking education in the age of digital skills.

Assessment Beyond Grades: Develop an AI-supported Assessment System

In today’s education systems, grades often reduce complex learning to numbers and letters. This challenge invites us to reimagine assessment through the lens of AI and human potential. We will aim at designing a concept for an AI-supported assessment ecosystem that values creativity, collaboration, empathy, and problem-solving as much as factual knowledge. The goal is not to code a finished product, but to design the idea, framework, and experience of a new kind of evaluation that inspires students to grow rather than compete.

Participants will explore how AI can act as a learning companion, offering personalised feedback, identifying hidden strengths, and supporting reflective learning. We’ll consider ethical, pedagogical, and motivational aspects — envisioning how such a system could reshape classrooms, universities, or lifelong learning platforms. Together, we’ll craft a vision for assessment that fuels curiosity, not anxiety.

Questions?
anyagee@gmail.com
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Who can join?
University students
Teachers and/or educators
Researchers
Education professionals
Innovators
Digital education enthusiasts
10 - 11 NOV 2025
Register by 12 NOV
Language(s) of the hackathon

Polish

Online
from Poland
Category:
AI and Emerging Technologies for Education

Challenge and goals

 

  • Goal 1: Design a visionary AI-empowered assessment concept that measures both cognitive and non-cognitive skills.
  • Goal 2: Reframe grading as feedback for growth—creating a balance between performance metrics and human potential.
  • Goal 3: Explore AI’s role in tracking individual learning journeys, providing narrative feedback and adaptive challenges.
  • Goal 4: Identify ethical principles for fair, transparent, and supportive AI use in education.
Expectations and requirements for the solutions and participants

Participants are expected to think boldly and critically about the future of assessment. Instead of coding, the focus is on concept design, storytelling, and pedagogical innovation. Teams should explore how AI can augment human judgment, foster authentic learning, and encourage student agency. The best ideas will challenge the status quo of grades as a measure of worth, proposing creative, ethical, and inclusive solutions. Collaboration between educators, designers, and technologists is encouraged — blending diverse perspectives to design an assessment experience that feels more like growth than judgment. Requirements: Prepare a concept outline or visual prototype (e.g., storyboard, flow map, or interactive mock-up). Clearly define how AI supports the process.

Available Support

Participants will collaborate in an open, creative environment with support from educational innovators, AI experts, and design-thinking mentors. Through micro-workshops, ideation sprints, and feedback sessions, teams will explore how AI can make learning assessment fairer, more engaging, and human-centred. Access to AI prompt libraries, concept templates, and mentoring sessions will help participants shape their ideas into clear, feasible concepts — no coding required. Guidance from pedagogical and AI specialists will ensure that proposed solutions remain realistic, ethical, and aligned with the goals of the Digital Education Action Plan 2021–2027. Above all, participants will be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across disciplines, and create concepts that spark systemic change.