AI: Creating Prompts with AI

What

Creating prompts for discussions and assignments can be challenging, time-consuming, and require flexibility. AI can generate a list of diverse and personalized prompts connected to your objectives that help meet student’s’ unique learning needs.

Resources

• ChatGPT as a Teaching Assistant
• Creating a Discussion in Brightspace
• Digital Annotation Activities
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Strategies

• 2 places to start.
  • Brainstorm new or revise previous prompts. Connect the prompts to your objectives.
  • Consider accessibility, such as what discussion strategies will give students choices that best aligns with their interests in relation to XYZ content from class.
• Considerations for how to ask AI to create prompts:
  • Use the points below to craft a clear question for AI:
    • Ask for a Discussion or Assignment prompt.
    • Include your student audience (higher education freshmen).
    • Include your specific subject area (music theory 101).
    • Be specific with the XYZ content or section of resource you’re covering.
    • Ask for ways to assess students’ performance.
  • Example: Make a discussion prompt for higher education freshman in music theory 101 about an introduction to the Baroque period musicians. Create a criteria for how I should assess each student's performance in the discussion.
• AI tools are more suitable for generating prompts tailored to specific activities.
  • ChatGPT:
    • Will generate prompts and assessments based on specific questions.
  • ChatPDF:
    • Will allow you to upload PDFs to ask specific questions about the content.
  • Parlay Ideas:
    • Is a discussion prompt generator from either typed-in information about a topic or uploaded content, such as a YouTube video or an article. It could assist with Annotation activities using a prompt or ‘'seeding,' which involves adding pre-annotated prompts to guide students using Perusal in Brightspace.
• AI will generate a list of suggestions you should tailor to better fit your content, objectives, and choice of wording. 
• Please note that we ask no student information to go into AI tools for FERPA compliance.