Improve Your Productivity

How To

Prompting

• The “Act As” Method (2:08) - Explains how specifying a role, giving clear instructions, providing examples, and encouraging questions can help educators and others use AI as a valuable tool.

• Leveraging AI for Interactive Classroom Activities (2:41) - Describes prompts you can use to develop interactive classroom activities can help address post-pandemic student disengagement and fosters deeper learning.

• See Jose Bowen's 100+ sample prompts for students, teachers, and researchers.

• A prompt format: "As a [Role], provide a [output] in [format] that will [purpose]".  Then, refine the prompt by telling it what it did well and what you want to adjust. (from the Society for Technical Communication annual conference).

Administrative Tasks

• Administrative Tasks (Heaps, 2024). This chapter explores how AI tools can: write first drafts of emails, agendas, templates, and other documents; and help staff manage large amounts of information to summarize, identify trends, or target a search.

Course Development

• Course Content Development (Heaps, 2024). This chapter explores: how AI tools can assist with the course planning process; and ways that AI tools can generate multimedia content for course LMS or other materials.

• Lesson Planning (Heaps, 2024). This chapter explores: how to prompt an AI tool to produce a draft lesson plan, and how to adapt it for classroom use; how to use AI tools to brainstorm classroom activities.

• AI for Allegories and Metaphors (2:47) - See an AI prompt in action and learn how to save time while crafting stories that resonate with your students.

• Using AI to Create Case Studies (3:08) - describes how to leverage GenAI to create interactive case studies.

Multimedia

• How to Use AI for Media Creation (2:26). Provides an overview on how to create AI-generated media, including images, audio, and video for multimedia projects.

• AI Image Generation: Techniques and Tools (2:49). Outlines tools and approaches you can use to create custom visuals that engage students and enhance learning.

• AI for Image Generation in Course Design (2:37). Explains how to use AI for image generation and how AI-generated images offer new opportunities to engage students in critical thinking and creative projects across disciplines.

• Paul.H.936. (2024, June 20). DALL-E: Tips for Writing Effective Prompts. D2L Brightspace Community. 

Assessments

• AI for Aligning Objectives with Assessments (2:34). Explains how you can use GenAI to align student learning objectives with course assessments.

• AI Proofing Assignments and Ensuring Authentic Student Work (2:47). Learn strategies for ensuring students genuinely engage with course material and produce authentic work.

• Assessment and Rubric Development (Heaps, 2024). This chapter explores how AI tools can: assist with creating assessment questions based on supplied prompts or materials; generate project topics and assessment scenarios; and help to develop rubrics.

• Leveraging AI for Creating Rubrics (3:10). Shares how educators can use GenAI to create grading rubrics to support student learning outcomes.

Grading and Feedback

• AI as a Grading Assistant – Simplifying the Process (2:10) - Shares how GenAI can be used to assist with grading writing assignments and best practices to ensure AI tools are used responsibly.

• Feedback and Grading (Heaps, 2024). This chapter explores: how to use AI tools as a source of formative feedback; how AI tools can assist with summative feedback; and fun ways to use AI to make feedback more engaging.