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
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.
AI Assignment Memo
Our AI Assignment Memo is a reflective document that students submit alongside their assignment. It encourages thoughtful evaluation about successes, struggles, engagement with material, and AI utilization.
AI Citation Guides
Below are specific guidelines for citing AI-generated content according to major citation styles: MLA, APA, AMA, and Chicago. By providing your students direct links, AI citation guidelines and other resources will be incredibly easy to find and utilize.
- APA Citation Guide
- MLA Citation Guide
- AMA Citation Guide
- Chicago Citation Guide
- You do need to credit ChatGPT and similar tools whenever you use the text that they generate in your own work. For most types of writings, you can simply acknowledge the AI tool in your text (e.g., “The following recipe for pizza dough was generated by ChatGPT”).
- If you need a more formal citation—for example, for a student paper or for a research article—a numbered footnote or endnote might look like this:
- Text generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI, March 7, 2023, https://chat.openai.com/chat.
- If the prompt hasn’t been included in the text, it can be included in the note:
- ChatGPT, response to “Explain how to make pizza dough from common household ingredients,” OpenAI, March 7, 2023
- More Information on the Citation, Documentation of Sources →
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