Student reflections on how GenAI supports learning in a Graduate Hydrology course
Course: EOSC 533, Advanced Groundwater Hydrology Instructor: Dr. Roger Beckie, Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science In EOSC 533, Advanced Groundwater Hydrology, Dr. Roger Beckie encouraged his 36 students to reflect on their experience with GenAI, specifically how students use AI to enhance their learning. He shared a blog post […]
How can I use GenAI with UBC-supported learning technologies?
The ways that you can use GenAI outputs with other learning technologies are wide and growing. With the right prompts, these tools can help streamline the process of creating your content or learning activities for other technologies. The following are just a few examples of what you can do: Create H5P learning activities. H5P streamlines […]
Q&A – How Dr. Maryam Aliabadi uses Generative AI to automatically grade exams in her Cloud Computing course
Dr. Maryam Raiyat Aliabadi is a postdoctoral teaching and research fellow in the Faculty of Computer Science. In this Q&A, she explains how she and her team are using GenAI to automatically grade exams for her cloud computing course. Responses have been edited for clarity. Q: Can you describe what led you to develop a […]
Intellectual Property: Can I submit student created content?
Most AI online tools indicate that anything entered into the tools is stored for further training of their AI models. This means that instructors should avoid entering student-created content into these tools without permission for that use. By copying material out of ChatGPT or other tools that store your data for training, you may also […]
Can AI help with course design?
Technically, AI LLMs are capable of generating course content. There are first-hand accounts of using it for just that, including generating course outlines and learning modules. You can try it out yourself by going to ChatGPT and inputting the following prompt: “Give me ten learning outcomes for my course on X” and following up with […]
Firas Moosvi explores the ethics of generating course materials in his computer fluency class
Firas Moosvi, lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, explores the use of AI for generating his own class materials, and contemplates the ethics of such a choice, given that it draws from the hard work of other educators who have posted their materials on the Internet. By Firas Moosvi Introduction Over the last year, […]
Can I get ChatGPT to grade for me?
Inputting student-created content into online AI services could constitute a violation of students’ intellectual property. This is because ChatGPT and most, if not all, similar tools store user-entered content to train their models. At this time, we are advising not to submit student data into any online tool that stores that data.
Elisa Baniassad explores using ChatGPT to create Computer Science assessments and practice materials
Elisa Baniassad, associate professor of teaching in the Faculty of Computer Science, explores using ChatGPT to create not only quiz questions, but the associated practice questions. by Elisa Baniassad ChatGPT can be a useful tool for designing test questions using prompts. You can provide those same prompts to your students to generate new questions (or […]