Faculty-support tools

Start with a bounded task, not a blank chat box.

These chatbot concepts provide starter prompts and realistic expectations. Never paste student PII into a chatbot.

Privacy first

Use de-identified or synthetic material. You remain responsible for the final teaching decision and for reviewing any generated content.

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POL

Syllabus AI-Policy Reviewer

Reviews AI-policy language for clarity, alignment, and student usability.

  • Identify ambiguous permission language
  • Check assignment-policy alignment
  • Suggest transparent alternatives

Starter prompts

  • “Review this policy as a tired student. What is unclear?”
  • “Check whether this policy explains why each boundary exists.”

Expectation: Plan for about 10 minutes; you make the final call.

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ASN

Assignment Redesign Coach

Helps stress-test and redesign an assignment around its essential learning.

  • Identify bypass risks
  • Name core intellectual substance
  • Suggest lightweight process evidence

Starter prompts

  • “Stress-test this assignment against its learning outcome.”
  • “Suggest one redesign that preserves the core thinking.”

Expectation: Best used with one assignment and one learning outcome.

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EQT

Equity and Ethics Audit Guide

Walks through access, privacy, truth, copyright, labor, and power questions.

  • Surface hidden requirements
  • Identify privacy risks
  • Draft practical safeguards

Starter prompts

  • “Audit this AI activity for access and privacy concerns.”
  • “Which students are presumed by this design?”

Expectation: Use the output as a question list, not a compliance determination.

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AIS

AIAS Decision Partner

Supports a documented choice about the role of AI in an assessment.

  • Compare AIAS levels
  • Check consistency with outcomes
  • Draft student-facing rationale

Starter prompts

  • “Which AIAS level fits this assessment and why?”
  • “What evidence should remain visible at this level?”

Expectation: A starting point for faculty judgment, not an automatic classification.

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RPL

AI Role-Play Chatbot Builder

Helps faculty design a realistic student-facing stakeholder chatbot that challenges reasoning and supports reflection.

  • Define the learning objective, student role, and stakeholder role
  • Build realistic context, constraints, tradeoffs, and information to withhold
  • Produce ready-to-paste chatbot instructions and a testing checklist

Starter prompts

  • “Help me turn an existing case study into an AI role-play.”
  • “I want students to practice a difficult professional conversation.”
  • “Review and improve my role-play chatbot idea.”

Expectation: Bring one scenario or professional interaction; you provide the disciplinary expertise and make the final design decisions.

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