Category: Course Development

Generative AI Use Scale for Course Design

I’ve been thinking about how I could possibly adapt the excellent work done by the Penn State Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support team on Assignment Level Guidance on Generative AI Use. I wanted to explore something analogous for course design. Instead of guidance for students and faculty, I am interested in guidance for faculty authors and instructional designers.

If AI is to be used at any stage, to any degree, all content must be reviewed by the appropriate subject matter experts. In this case, that might be the faculty authors, faculty reviewers, multimedia specialists, or instructional designers. Continue reading “Generative AI Use Scale for Course Design”

Index of ChatGPT Prompts

This is a list of posts with complex prompts that I’ve developed to address various teaching & learning and learning design needs. They were inspired by the Prompt Library created by the Mollicks and use a CREATE framework presented by David Birss.

Why complex prompts as opposed to custom GPTs? Primarily because of access. I didn’t want my experiments to be available to paying customers only. On a related note, I wanted everyone to be able to see what they were using. You cannot see how a custom GPT was trained. Unfortunately, training isn’t possible with complex prompts so there are limitations. That said, if the prompt isn’t working for you, you can edit it even train it by adding your own resources. I just ask that you leave a comment on any of the posts with prompts so that others can benefit.

ChatGPT Prompt for Creating Rubrics

This is a prompt to assist with the task of

  • Developing analytic rubrics

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. ChatGPT will ask for information about your assignment and then guide you from there.
  3. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage or continue with this prompt to get assistance with additional assignments.

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ChatGPT Prompt for Continuous Feedback and Improvement

In Stage 4, you have finished developing your course and now are looking for ways to measure your success with the design of the course and make adjustments.

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. If you completed Stages 1-3, paste the prompt into that conversation. Otherwise, you can start a new conversation.
  3. ChatGPT will ask for information about your course and then guide you from there.
  4. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage.

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ChatGPT Prompt for Text Descriptions for Images

This is a prompt to assist with the task of

  • generating image alt text,
  • image descriptions, and
  • transcripts of images.

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. ChatGPT will ask for information about your content and then guide you from there.
  3. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage.

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ChatGPT Prompt for Developing Activities and Scaffold Student Learning

In Stage 3, you will work on developing individual lesson plans that tie together the outline, learning outcomes, and assessments that you have already developed.

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. If you completed Stage 2, paste the prompt into that conversation. Otherwise, you can start a new conversation.
  3. ChatGPT will ask for information about your course and then guide you from there.
  4. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage.

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ChatGPT Prompt for Developing Assessments for Each Lesson

In Stage 2, you will either build upon the work in Stage 1 or provide Chat GPT with enough information about the course along with a course outline and learning outcomes. This prompt will help you develop a course grading rubric and individual assessments for your course based on your needs.

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. If you completed Stage 1, paste the prompt into that conversation. Otherwise, you can start a new conversation.
  3. ChatGPT will ask for information about your course and then guide you from there.
  4. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage.

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ChatGPT Prompt for Developing a Course Outline and Learning Objectives

In Stage 1, we will identify or confirm the learning objectives for your course. Using the Backwards Design approach (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005), we will define the desired results before planning any instructional activities or assessments.

Instructions

  1. Copy the entire text of the prompt below. You don’t need to read the prompt.
  2. Paste it into a new conversation in ChatGPT.
  3. ChatGPT will ask for information about your course and then guide you from there.
  4. When you’re done, return to the index page to move on to another stage.

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Dev/Rev Planning

Dev/Rev Planning Process

Dev/Rev = New Course Development and Course Revision Projects

For the past four to five years, I’ve been assisting with developing processes for our College to improve our Dev/Rev Process. While I am an Assistant Director, that title is rather misleading as I am relatively low in the organizational hierarchy of the College. This is relevant because I wouldn’t have been able to make the progress I have to improve things for the designers, which includes myself, and the faculty if I didn’t have the support of my Directors and the Faculty and Administrative leadership of the College. We still have a lot of work to do together but I am happy for the progress we have made.

The presentation above is a distillation of a more detailed process flowchart.

https://app.diagrams.net/ was a huge find as it is a powerful, open-source option for creating diagrams. I really enjoyed working with this software.