Not sure if or how to incorporate AI into your course? Here are a few tips for creating assignments, learning outcomes, and/or assessments that integrate AI in ways that are fair and meaningful to students.
Navigate your options: First, review this flow chart from the Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help you navigate the use of GenAI in your courses.
Clearly define the learning outcomes for your AI assignments. Be specific about the knowledge and skills you want students to acquire. Transparency in these outcomes provides a roadmap for students. Take a look at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL's) guidance on Generative AI in your courses.
Model the appropriate way to use AI apps with you students, including how AI can and can't be used for an assignment. Also discuss what information the tool is pulling from. For example, ChatGPT pulls from sources across the entire internet. Whereas some tools are rooted in more academic information. AI research tools like SciSpace, Consensus, and ResearchRabbit pull from open access academic databases. This does not mean these tools cannot also make mistakes, but they are more likely to have high quality and scholarly information behind their outputs.
Syllabus Statements: Make sure you communicate to your students how they can and cannot use AI.
Revisiting Bloom: If you use Bloom's Taxonomy to generate vocabulary for creating assignments and assessing student learning, take a look at an adapted Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid developed by Oregon State that accounts for GenAI.
Instructor Tip: AI isn't just for students. It can help you streamline tasks like making quizzes, writing rubrics, and defining clear assignment instructions. There are specialized AI tools for instructors to help with these tasks, like Khanmigo from Khan Academy, which can use information you input or pull from the Khan Academy library to create content. Note: This tool needs your expertise to be excellent. Be sure to double-check content for accuracy and make edits as needed!
