30 Ideas for Generating AI-Resilient Assessments

As AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude become widespread in classrooms, educators face a new challenge: how to promote authentic learning while minimizing the risk of AI-generated shortcuts. But here's the good news: AI can’t replace deep thinking, personal expression, or creative synthesis! Rather than banning AI, we need to redesign assessments to be AI-resilient, so we can push our students towards meaningful, original, and engaged learning. And thanks to TeachShare, you don’t have to do it alone.

Why AI-Resilient Assessments Matter More Than Ever

Why should I even bother making my assessments anf assignments AI-resilient. Well, AI is incredibly powerful. Modern AI can generate summaries, solve textbook problems, and even mimic academic writing. But we have found is that it's not as good at tasks that require:

• Personal experiences or emotions

• Creative or novel solutions

• Real-world application

• Critical thinking and synthesis

• Collaborative learning processes

Lucky for us, these skills are also exactly what 21st-century education should foster (and what they are looking for in the workforce!). So making your assessments AI-resilient is not just a defensive move, it's actually a way to prepare your students for the world that they will enter in the future.

TeachShare: Your Launchpad for Smarter Assessment Design

If anyone knows AI, its AI. We've found that utilizing a teacher-made AI platform allows you to make the MOST AI resilient and engaging assessments for the classroom. Meet TeachShare, it’s a full-featured creation, collaboration, and customization hub designed to help teachers build AI-resilient assessments from the ground up.

Here’s what makes TeachShare uniquely powerful:

•  Creator Tool: Build AI-resilient assessments from scratch using templates, media formats, and smart AI customization

  
  

• TeachShare Toolbox: Enhance your tasks with built-in tools like rubric builders, AI-checkers, and standards alignment.

  
  

• Curated Library of Real-Classroom Assessments: Access hundreds of peer-submitted tasks, prompts, rubrics, and project ideas that have already been used and refined by educators, especially those targeting critical thinking, creativity, and process-based learning.

  
  

• Built-In AI Assistance: TeachShare’s AI tools doesn't generate generic content, they enhance what you already have. You’ll get intelligent suggestions to deepen rigor, diversify output formats, improve rubrics, or align tasks more tightly to standards.

  
  

• Teacher Notes & Context: Every shared assessment includes contextual notes from the teacher who submitted it, what worked, what didn’t, and how it played out in their classroom. You get more than the resource, you get the backstory.

  
  

• Collaborative Community: Follow other teachers, comment on shared work, and exchange tips directly. It’s a professional learning network embedded into the tool, focused on innovation, trust, and real-world teaching needs.

Whether you’re looking to save time, try something new, or ensure your assessments challenge students beyond what AI can answer, TeachShare gives you a running start!

30 AI-Resilient Assessment Ideas to Try Today

Ok, so we have talked about why we should make our assignments AI-resilient, but how do you actually generate these assessments. Don't fret, we have got you covered, here’s a categorized, action-oriented list of 30 assessment strategies you can implement, along with TeachShare tips for each.

Personalized & Reflective Tasks

1. Personal Connection Prompts: Ask students to relate content to their own lives.

   TeachShare Tip: Browse “reflection prompt banks” shared by teacher or use the Creator Tool to build your own custom prompt sequence.

   
   

2. Learning Journals: Weekly entries on what they learned, struggled with, or want to explore.

   TeachShare Tip: Find journaling templates ready to edit or use the Creator Tool to generate a weekly journal framework tailored to your subject.

   
   

3. Video or Audio Reflections: Students explain their thought process or learning journey.

   TeachShare Tip: Explore shared podcast and Flipgrid assignments or create your own multimedia reflection task using the Creator Tool with built-in rubric suggestions.

   
   

4. Reflection on Learning Goals: Students assess how they met specific course goals.

   TeachShare Tip: Search for editable goal-tracking templates or use the Creator Tool to design reflections aligned to your specific standards.

   
   

5. Interview-Style Responses: Conduct live or recorded interviews to assess understanding.

   TeachShare Tip: Grab question sets and scoring guides from other teachers or build your own interview script and assessment plan using the Creator Tool in just a few clicks.

   
   

Process-Based & Meta-Cognitive Tasks

6. Process Portfolios: Collect drafts, revisions, and self-assessments over time.

   TeachShare Tip: Search for portfolio templates and reflection checklists or create your own multi-stage portfolio with the Creator Tool.

   
   

7. Mistake Analysis: Students review incorrect answers or flawed arguments and fix them.

   TeachShare Tip: Browse editable mistake analysis tasks or build custom ones using the Creator Tool with automatic rubric and prompt suggestions.

   
   

8. Reverse Engineering Tasks: Provide final answers and ask students to work backward.

   TeachShare Tip: Find examples in math, science, and ELA or use the Creator Tool to generate your own subject-specific reverse tasks.

   
   

9. Student-Created Questions: Have students design test questions and justify their validity.

   TeachShare Tip: Look for peer-generated question projects or use the Creator Tool to create a guided framework with question stems and evaluation criteria.

   
   

10. Scaffolded Projects: Break tasks into clear stages: plan, draft, revise, reflect.

    TeachShare Tip: Remix shared project scaffolds or use the Creator Tool to design a step-by-step assignment with built-in checkpoints and support tools.

    
    

Real-World & Localized Applications

11. Localized Case Studies: Use local data, issues, or cultural elements to anchor content.

    TeachShare Tip: Search for regional case study templates or create your own with the Creator Tool by entering your topic, location, and subject focus.

    
    

12. Real-World Problem Solving: Pose current issues and ask students to design viable solutions.

    TeachShare Tip: Browse real-world project examples or use the Creator Tool to instantly generate problem-solving tasks based on grade level and content area.

    
    

13. Ethical Dilemmas: “Should we allow ___?” scenarios provoke thoughtful debate.

    TeachShare Tip: Find shared dilemma-based prompts or create your own using the Creator Tool by selecting your topic and customizing the scenario.

    
    

14. Design Challenges: Ask students to prototype a solution using course principles.

    TeachShare Tip: Explore design challenge examples with rubrics or build your own using the Creator Tool with AI guidance tailored to your subject.

    
    

15. Simulations & Role-Plays: Students act as professionals (e.g., doctors, historians, lawyers).

TeachShare Tip: Search for shared “simulation scripts” or “case templates” or create your own using the TeachShare Creator tool, and simply let the AI create it for you according to the topic, grade-level, and other requirements

Creative & Interdisciplinary Synthesis

16. Creative Storytelling: Students write fiction that integrates course content.

    TeachShare Tip: Search for narrative writing prompts or use the Creator Tool to build your own story-based assignment with content-specific requirements.

    
    

17. Infographic or Comic Creation: Turn complex ideas into visuals or narrative formats.

    TeachShare Tip: Find visual project templates or use the Creator Tool to design a task that blends creativity with academic content.

    
    

18. Podcasts or Digital Stories: Record explanations or narratives related to curriculum themes.

    TeachShare Tip: Browse podcast assignments with rubrics or create your own digital storytelling task using the Creator Tool and media format options.

    
    

19. Cross-Curricular Projects: Combine subjects: a science-themed poem or historical short film.

    TeachShare Tip: Explore interdisciplinary project examples or use the Creator Tool to create your own cross-subject task by selecting multiple content areas.

    
    

20. “What If” Alternate Histories: Ask students to imagine different outcomes of real events.

    TeachShare Tip: Look for shared alternate scenario prompts or use the Creator Tool to create your own with built-in support for historical accuracy and creative depth.

Collaborative & Social Learning Tasks

21. Peer Teaching: Students prepare and deliver short lessons to peers.

    TeachShare Tip: Find shared peer-teaching rubrics or use the Creator Tool to design a lesson plan structure with clear content and delivery goals.

    
    

22. Collaborative Research Projects: Each student tackles a role or sub-question, documented individually.

    TeachShare Tip: Browse group research task examples or create your own with the Creator Tool by assigning roles and guiding questions.

    
    

23. Debates with Reflective Follow-Up: Debate a topic, then reflect in writing on both perspectives.

    TeachShare Tip: Search for structured debate templates or use the Creator Tool to design a debate and reflection combo with scoring guides.

    
    

24. Socratic Seminars: Student-led discussions with structured roles and accountability.

    TeachShare Tip: Explore shared seminar formats with rubrics or create your own using the Creator Tool with built-in role and question prompts.

    
    

25. Real Audience Tasks: Design work for parents, school boards, or the community.

    TeachShare Tip: Look for authentic audience project examples or use the Creator Tool to develop a task with purpose, product, and audience guidance.

Evaluation-Based & Higher-Order Tasks

26. Comparative Analysis Essays: Compare two texts, theories, or perspectives.

    TeachShare Tip: Find essay prompts with scaffolds or use the Creator Tool to create your own comparison task with targeted criteria.

    
    

27. Annotated Bibliographies: Evaluate sources, not just cite them.

    TeachShare Tip: Search for annotated bibliography samples or use the Creator Tool to generate your own assignment with evaluation checklists.

    
    

28. Concept Maps or Graphic Organizers: Visually demonstrate idea connections.

    TeachShare Tip: Browse graphic organizer templates or create your own concept mapping task using the Creator Tool with built-in categories.

    
    

29. Caption This!: Students interpret charts, images, or datasets.

    TeachShare Tip: Look for “caption this” assignments across subjects or use the Creator Tool to quickly create one using your own visuals or data.

    
    

30. Choice Boards: Offer 3–5 task options that align with the same learning goal.

    TeachShare Tip: Explore flexible assessment boards from other teachers or use the Creator Tool to build your own with customizable student options.

Start with One, Share What Works

If this list feels overwhelming, just pick one idea to try this week. Then:

1. Browse TeachShare for similar assessments.

2. Download a template or rubric from another teacher.

3. Edit and refine it for your students.

4. Share your version back to help others:)

   
   

Final Thoughts: AI Is a Tool, Not a Threat

When students know their thinking matters, and that there’s no shortcut, authentic learning thrives in the classroom. By embedding originality, creativity, and reflection into our assessments, we ensure AI enhances, rather than replaces, deep learning. TeachShare is more than a platform. It’s your professional community, built around trust, collaboration, and innovation, try it now for FREE!