Below are ideas for how faculty/instructors can design learning activities that are generative AI-informed, as well as teaching activities that incorporate GenAI as a tool.
Teaching Activities that Incorporate Generative AI as a Tool
- Book Guide - Using Chatbots in Classroom Assignments and Activities
A TTC-created guide that highlights ideas for using chatbots in classroom assignments and activities. The guide is based on the ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today book from the University of Central Florida. - AI Hacks for Educators Digital Book
In this book, four educators with decades of teaching experience provide concrete, applicable ideas for utilizing LLMs and other AI tools to add creativity to our courses and lessen the toll of administrative tasks. - Using GenAI to Improve Assignments
As we continue to integrate technology into education, AI tools offer exciting opportunities to improve the design and effectiveness of assignments. This resource provides a series of prompts that educators can use to leverage AI in refining their assignments. - Teaching Writing with Chatbots
Sweetland Center for Writing
This site outlines why instructors might consider teaching writing with a chatbot, course policies for chatbots, evidence-based writing pedagogy, and sample writing assignments using chatbots.
Generative AI-Informed Teaching Activities
- Generative AI Assignment Decision Tree
This decision tree walks instructors through a set of questions to determine whether or not their assignments need revisions when considering teaching and learning in a generative AI era. - Course and Assignment (Re-)Design
This page contains course and assignment (Re-)Design ideas, Strategies for Engagement and Assessment, Integrating AI tools into Course Design, and Skills and Competencies for an AI-Augmented World. - GenAI Chatbot Prompt Library for Educators
A library of prompts to help you lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots
Teaching with GenAI Event Recordings
ITS Teaching & Learning 2025 Summit Recordings
- If you missed this year's summit or would like to rewatch a session, all recordings are now available on the Summit Canvas site. Topics include: Canvas, Generative AI tools and applications, Canvas External Tools, MiVideo, a featured address on U-M's Digital Accessibility Strategic Initiative and a student panel.
Enriching Scholarship 2025: Being Human in a Digital World
- The 2025 conference theme, Being Human in a Digital World, highlighted the success and challenges of being human in a space with an increasing technology presence. Session topics explored the intersection of humanity and technology through the lenses of mental health, accessibility, artificial intelligence, inclusive teaching, and the use of technology to support humans rather than replace them. View session recordings | Visit our Canvas site for additional materials
