We will continue to provide updates on any changes to AI platforms we think may be useful for faculty and students. If you have suggestions of your own, whether for new tools, updates, or how you’ve used them, please let us know in the comments or send an email to academictechnology@dickinson.edu NotebookLM can create text…

You will see Academic Technology around campus over the next few weeks. If you see us, stop by. We may have some tips, tricks, and uses for AI that you haven’t considered. No time, check out our guide for students, faculty and staff.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) models (that generate text, music, code, and images) pose challenges in the classroom. They also present new opportunities for teachers and learners. Because faculty have different opinions about the utility of GAIs, there is no single policy that works for every instructor of every course. However, as you finalize your syllabi,…

Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. Students can simulate a conversation on any topic with ChatGPT playing a specified role . In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for the simulated conversation…

In the last post, we introduced NotebookLM as a way to create AI focused queries on a user’s selection of texts for education in research. There have been other improvements in the capabilities of the AI models, particularly in the area of multimodal AI, which allow for the input and output of mediums besides text.…

One of the weaknesses with AI has been that its answers are always very general. The response is based on their language models containing enormous amounts of text from the web. In many cases, this provides an adequate answer, but often we want the response to based on a much more limited set of text.…

Refined Look Activities and sections clearly defined. File MIME type icons updated. Single Section Page Focus on one section only in its own page. Bulk Actions Bulk delete, move, duplicate and set availability Adding Activities and Resources Insert activities and resources anyway in your outline Activity Icons Updated activity icons use an accessible color palette.…

Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. Students can simulate a conversation in their target language with ChatGPT playing the role of a native speaker. In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for…

Prompt Engineering  “Prompt engineering” may be the most common new term created with the growth of AI.  It also suggests more complexity than is involved. However, if like most people, you’re limiting your AI prompts to one or two sentence questions or requests for text, a basic understanding of writing effective prompts can improve your…