How can Generative AI tools empower instructors, enhance their teaching, and save them time? Think of AI as a highly competent research assistant who can help you find, synthesize and format information; come up with examples and questions; and save time completing administrative tasks related to teaching. The teaching resources that GenAI tools create are only a starting point, however. You always need to revise and adapt the resources to your courses and, above all, always check for accuracy.
Here are a few of the ways instructors have found Generative AI to be particularly useful in their work. Each section includes a sample prompt and output from Copilot or ChatGPT, as well as hints for writing prompts.
