Boost Teaching and Learning Productivity with Generative AI

TeachTech Workshop

noon–1:30 p.m.

New Workshop!

Ready to transform your teaching and free up valuable time? Join our interactive workshop and discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools, specifically U-M GPT, can streamline your approach to creating syllabi, assignments, rubrics, and lesson plans. Dive into practical ideas for designing assignments and instructional materials in a GenAI era, and engage in hands-on opportunities using U-M GPT and resources like the "60+ ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today" Book Guide. Enhance your productivity and gain more time to engage with your students!

Workshop Outline:

  • Effortless Course Content Creation:
    • Using U-M GPT for generating slides, content for Canvas pages, and other course materials (syllabus, lesson plans, rubrics)
  • Designing Assignments and Instructional Materials:
    • Practical ideas for creating assignments and instructional materials.
    • Hands-on exploration of the "60+ ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today" Book Guide.
    • Engaging exercises to design and refine assignments.
  • Streamlined Data Analysis:
    • Techniques for analyzing data and summarizing academic materials using GenAI tools.
  • Hands-on Experience:
    • Practical, hands-on exercises to get comfortable using U-M GPT and other GenAI tools.
  • Peer Insights and Best Practices:
    • Participatory discussions and sharing of best practices for integrating GenAI in higher education.

Audience: Instructors


Recommended Prerequisites: 
A or B:
A. Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts (Mini Workshop)
B. Generative AI Basics (Full Workshop)

C or D:
C. Critical Challenges in GenAI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias (Mini Workshop)
D. Generative AI Basics (Full Workshop)

E or F:
E. From Basics to Brilliance: Prompt Engineering with U-M GPT (Mini Workshop)
F. Generative AI with U-M GPT (Full Workshop)

G or H:
G. The GenAI Educational Landscape: Best Practices for Instructors (Mini Workshop)
H. Generative AI in the Classroom, Part I

Level: Intermediate/Advanced