Offered Through Summer 2025
Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Reliance
Attempts to evade and detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. To ensure student learning, we can adapt our assignments to better engage students. Focusing on longer assignments and projects, this asynchronous workshop introduces six strategies for reducing AI use in your favorite major assignments.
Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
This "Viewing Only" offering of "Engaging AI Critically with Your Students" is being offered through the remainder of Spring 2025. The videos and resources are available, but the credit-bearing Discussion Board is currently closed to increase informational access to more faculty. Opportunities to earn LIAISONS
Certificate credit
for this workshop will occur at least three times between Summer 2025 and Spring 2026. This workshop will introduce you to:
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How Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT work
- Many of the problems associated with these tools, including
- Representative, allocative, and sample biases
- GAI Training, Toxicity, and Exploitation
- AI Sycophancy
- Misinformation and Info Manipulation
- Copyright and Equity
- Data Privacy
- Academic Integrity
- Environmental Risks and Benefits
- Employment Impacts & Futures
- Some of the potential benefits of using LLMs critically, with some example applications
- A rationale for integrating LLMs carefully and critically into your teaching
- Two videos on ethical questions in GAI by Phaedra Boinodiris, AI and ethics specialist.
Fall 2025 Offerings
WAC LIAISONS practices can increase learning and reduce grading time in any class.
GenAI Faculty Resources Canvas Site
Writing Your AI-Ready Syllabus Policies
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
In under an hour, this asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will guide faculty through adapting their syllabi academic integrity policies for the presence of AI. Policy definitions, expectations, rationale, guidance, and repercussions will be modeled and explained.
Experts’ Notebooks: Increasing Course Writing; Reducing Grading Time
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
The “experts’ notebook” is a tool that increases student writing with minimal instructor labor. “Expert” forms of writing particular to individual disciplines—graphs, observations, analyses, illustrations, and evaluations—are all equally at home in such notebooks. Besides focusing students on your content, notebooks allow students to reflect on their progress and instructors to gauge their students’ successes and challenges quickly.
Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Take this asynchronous workshop at your own pace. Learn some of the promises and perils of AI chatbots, explore ways to support critical thinking about AI in class, and draft your own in-class AI-infused activity for feedback.
Reduce Grading Time with Rubrics
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
This workshop will cut your grading time while increasing the amount, quality, and objectivity of your feedback. Learn how to design a writing rubric with which to quickly assess students’ writing--with or without AI. Different styles of rubrics that suit different types of faculty will be presented.
Critical Thinking through AI Prompting
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
This asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will introduce recent research on critical thinking and AI use, then explore a few generalizable ideas for using student-LLM interactions to strengthen students' critical thinking skills as they increase their subject mastery.
Successful Collaborative Projects in Any Class
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Asking students to create collaborative projects can increase student engagement and learning, but can also create serious challenges for instructors and teams. This workshop will help you design group projects that hold individual students accountable while building teams’ collaboration skills.
Swap Out Stale Student Presentations for an Interactive Poster Session
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn about how to implement an in-class interactive poster session mock conference. The poster conference can replace stale standard student PowerPoint presentations for increased authenticity and student engagement. It is also a wonderful capstone activity to end the semester.
Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Reliance
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Attempts to evade and detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. To ensure student learning, we can adapt our assignments to better engage students. Focusing on longer assignments and projects, this asynchronous workshop introduces six strategies for reducing AI use in your favorite major assignments.
