{"id":464,"date":"2026-01-16T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/?p=464"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:16:16","slug":"updates-to-the-foreign-language-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/2026\/01\/16\/updates-to-the-foreign-language-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates to the Foreign Language Chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to our computer science intern Hillary Zhong, we have several updates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/chatbot.dickinson.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chatbot<\/a>.\u00a0 (Only available on campus)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Professors creating prompts can now choose from any of the provided voices available via OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>Instructions can be included for the students as well.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Finally, for grading professors can quickly see the number of times a student has interacted with each bot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Contact Todd at bryantt@dickinson.edu with any questions and to get started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ChatbotAvatarAndInstructions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-466\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ChatbotAvatarAndInstructions-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ChatbotAvatarAndInstructions-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ChatbotAvatarAndInstructions-768x701.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ChatbotAvatarAndInstructions.png 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ScreenshotChatbotInteractions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-465\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ScreenshotChatbotInteractions-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ScreenshotChatbotInteractions-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ScreenshotChatbotInteractions-768x604.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/files\/2026\/01\/ScreenshotChatbotInteractions.png 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to our computer science intern Hillary Zhong, we have several updates to the chatbot.\u00a0 (Only available on campus) Professors creating prompts can now choose from any of the provided voices available via OpenAI. Instructions can be included for the students as well. \u00a0Finally, for grading professors can quickly see the number of times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}