Integrating AI in Assignments

Provide students with multiple options for completing assignments, such as letting them choose from project topics or presentation modalities. The more students are involved in the decision-making process, the more engaged they will be.

Within certain phases of an assignment, look to integrate AI tools to scaffold or support learning and help students practice noticing where AI is helpful and where it is more limited.

• Could students use AI to prepare a text summary that they can then synthesize into an analysis?
• Could AI help maintain a reference list during a long research project?

Teaching with AI

• Clarify the purpose of what students are learning and provide opportunities for students to reflect on any relevance to their personal lives.

Encouraging Students to Responsibly Use AI

• Encourage students to validate AI-generated information against trusted sources.
• Teach students to “cross-reference” AI outputs with other sources, ensuring continuity between AI-generated and human-generated texts.
• Ask students to reflect on how AI use enhances or complicates learning and task completion.

Templates and Resources

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AI Use Signal

Use our AI Use Signal template to clearly define prohibited, limited, and allowed uses of AI for an assignment. Defining how AI can be used ensures clarity on its appropriate and ethical application, and fosters a learning environment that values academic integrity and critical thinking.

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