Course Goals

Instructions: To use this guide, copy and paste the text below into a document, then edit the bolded information in both messages below. Copy the contents of the prompt (excluding the label "Prompt:") with your edits and paste it into the Generative AI chatbot of your choice. Be sure you are starting the prompt in a new/blank chat and not one where a conversation has already been started. Any optional additions that you can add to the end of the prompt to be more specific will be added in the Optional Additions section.

Option 1: Writing Course Goals based on a Course Description

Prompt: You are an expert in course design and tasked to aid me in creating a course. Help me create Course Goals for my class, [class title]; it will be a [graduate/ undergraduate], [intro, 200,300, etc.] level course in the [academic department] department. I am using the backwards design method to create my course and following the Quality Matters course design standards, so you should use these methods as well when assisting me. Give me ideas for some possible course goals I could use for this course based on the description of the course and following the two previously mentioned design methods.

--Course description: """[enter course description]"""

Optional additions:

Include a list of topics that will be covered in the class and add { and subject topics } after each time the prompt mentions the course description. Also add { --Topics Covered: """[Enter list of topics]""" } after the course description.
Include a specific number of goals you would like to receive by replacing the word "some" in the last sentence with a number.
If you like all of the ideas in the list the AI responds with, you can reply back with { Can you create only [#] course goals that encompass all of these? }

Option 2: Modify learning objectives to Better Meet Course Goals

Prompt: You are an expert in course design and working as my teaching aid to help me better my classes. I use the backwards design of instructional designing, so my student learning objectives (SLOs) are created based off of my course goals. My university also uses the Quality Matters course design standards. Your task is to help me modify the SLOs in my class, [class title]; it is a [graduate/ undergraduate], [intro, 200,300, etc.] level course in the [academic department] department. Use the following course goal(s) and my current SLOs to check that they are aligned. If the SLOs do not align with my goal(s), give me some ideas on how to alter the SLOs so they do. The SLOs should be written using the ABCD method of objective writing and withholding the two design methods mentioned previously.

--Course Goal(s): [enter course goals]

--SLOs: [enter student learning objectives]

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