Boost Teaching and Learning Productivity with Generative AI

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

Zoom join URL: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98888582214

This workshop is part of the new ITS Generative AI Mini-Workshop Series designed to offer a rich, engaging experience in just 45 minutes per session. With an expanded range of topics, these ten workshops are tailored to meet the varied interests and needs of instructors, staff, and students.

Each workshop topic will be offered twice a week over ten weeks, allowing participants the flexibility to complete the entire series with their choice of one 45-minute workshop per week. Participants will be able to earn new badges for participating in the series. Visit the ITS Generative AI Workshop Series page to learn more about the series.