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Use as Educators

GenAI tools can act like your co-teacher

Use GenAI tools to help plan weekly lessons, suggest authentic methods of assessment and create corresponding rubrics, build interactive in-class activities, or act as a sounding board for ideas. It's important to choose the proper tool for the job and iterate towards an ideal result.

Please keep reading for guidance in stress testing assessment strategies, prompting, GenAI tools, and other tips for helping with course prep.

Start by stress testing your existing assessments to better understand their vulnerabilities. What needs to be redesigned? What needs to be replaced? It's important to do this before the start of each semester as genAI tools are continuously becoming more capable. What worked in past semesters may no longer be sufficient.

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How do I stress test my assessments? (instructions)

How do I stress test? Here is some guidance for text-based assessments:

Select the tool to be used. A good starting place is likely ChatGPT or Copilot.
Copy the text from your assessment directly into the chat window. This replicates the minimum level of effort needed to have an AI tool do the work. Many tools also allow users to attach files Word, Excel, and PDFs directly in the chat window. Ensure the document/instructions do not contain personal or confidential information.
Review the response. How well was the assessment completed? How would you grade it?
- If it looks good, you need to modify your assessment, or at least how it's deployed to students.
- If it missed something, perhaps it misunderstood the instructions. This may be a queue to review them for clarity.
- Provide some additional instruction. Can the tool easily be steered into improving it's output?
Repeat these steps with the same tool. By design, the output will be different. You could also try this with a different GenAI tool for comparison.

Assessment Stress Test Video Guide

Prompts for Course Prep (list)

Here are some basic prompts to get you started. These can be copied into the genAI tool of your choice and modified as needed.

Lesson Planner Prompt - designed for use in Anthropic Claude but can be used in any model.

Rubrics Prompt - this is a basic prompt from AIForEducation to get you started with rubric generation

Authentic Assessment Prompt - this is another prompt from AIForEducation designed to help create authentic assessments

Advanced Prompts

For more advanced and detailed prompts, see the More Useful Things site by Ethan Mollick.

GenAI Video Guides (external)

For more guidance in using AI as educators, watch the Practical AI for Instructors and Students by Ethan & Lilach Mollick from the Wharton School. Here is Part 4: AI forTeachers.

GenAI Tools for Education

Below is a selection of GenAI tools created by educators for educators. All tools are free to use though some require users to create an account.

Assessment Partner

Assessment Partner is an AI-powered tool developed at McMaster University to assist educators in designing effective student assessments. It allows instructors to customize assessments by selecting various parameters, such as learning objectives, assignment formats, and evaluation criteria. The tool uses a framework of multiple AI agents, each with a specific role, to collaboratively generate comprehensive assessment packages.

Summary generated by Copilot Chat (June 2025)

SMARTIE

SMARTIE (Strategic Module Assistant for Rubrics, Tasks, and Inclusive Education) is an AI-powered tool developed at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education. It leverages the GPT-4 API to support university educators in designing inclusive and comprehensive course materials. SMARTIE helps generate course descriptions, learning outcomes, EDIA-aware (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) learning activities, and provides recommendations for rubric redesigns. Its goal is to reduce the cognitive load on instructors and make inclusive course design more accessible and efficient.

Summary generated by Copilot Chat (June 2025)

AI Teaching Assistant Pro

AI Teaching Assistant Pro, developed by Contact North | Contact Nord, is a free, AI-powered tool designed to support educators by reducing their workload and enhancing teaching effectiveness. It enables instructors to:

Generate multiple-choice quizzes and essay questions with scoring rubrics
Create full course syllabi, including descriptions, learning outcomes, and weekly topics
Streamline lesson planning to focus more on student engagement and deeper learning

The tool is accessible on smartphones, laptops, and desktops, requires no login, and does not track users.

Summary generated by Copilot Chat (June 2025)

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