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This resource provides a checklist of actions for academics to use with Generative AI (GenAI) in their subjects.
Disciplines and subjects will need to adapt to the challenges and opportunities offered by GenAI tools. There are many ways to approach GenAI depending on your context. Aim to ground your practice in the UTS foundations of effective, ethical engagement and ensure that GenAI use is aligned with the objectives for your discipline.
In this resource and others in the GenAI collection, when we refer to GenAI we are referring to Microsoft Copilot. This is currently the preferred GenAI tool option, but you must take care to be signed in with your UTS credentials. To learn more, go to our guide on Using Microsoft Bing Copilot.
UTS is moving to an approach where students are permitted to use GenAI unless an assessment has been specifically designed to use secure assessment strategies. If you want to learn more about the basics of GenAI you can complete this brief introductory Canvas module.
- 2023: Read how effective, ethical engagement formed the UTS approach for generative AI: GenerativeAI@UTS: effective, ethical engagement
- 2024: A response to the TEQSA request for a GenAI action plan built on what we’d established at UTS and pointed to practical next steps: Next steps for GenAI and assessment reform at UTS: a response to TEQSA
Preparing for the next session
- Develop a plan for talking to your students about GenAI
- Determine how students in your subject can use GenAI in their assessments – this interactive guide to using GenAI in your assessments is a useful tool to reflect on your assessment and consider which option is best for you
Read Lydia Arnold’s menu of ideas to provoke discussion and reflection around assessment approaches in higher education: Assessment ideas for an AI-enabled world
In your first class
Discuss GenAI and academic integrity with your students
Use the GenAI Intro slide deck for students in your first class as a tool to create clear guidelines and generate open discussion. The slide deck can be customised and used by you and your tutors to:
- Provide an overview of GenAI in general and at UTS
- Prompt discussion about how GenAI is affecting your profession/discipline
- Consider important legal and ethical issues around GenAI and how this relates to Academic Misconduct
- Remind students of the importance of academic integrity and let them know of support that is available
- Provide students with clear guidelines on what is considered acceptable use of GenAI tools in your subject and how its use should be acknowledged
Access the slide kits for your students and useful resources on Academic Integrity in the Academic Integrity Communication Toolkit.
- Encourage your students to complete the Academic integrity tutorial and quiz (self-enrol Canavs course).
- Explain to your students that they may be asked to describe how they completed assignments if there is some doubt about the authorship.
Include an activity about using GenAI
- If you are new to using GenAI in your teaching, starting with an opening activity to introduce GenAI can be a good way to get started and to start a conversation with your students.
- Read our blog post 4 activities to introduce your students to AI for some ideas on activities to get started with.
Watch this 5-minute demo of AI in assignments from the University of Queensland’s Jason Tangen – a great video resource to get you started.
After class
Plan for longer term changes to your assessments and curriculum for future sessions. Consider things such as:
- How are you going to collect data in the current session to support your decision making for changes in subsequent sessions?
- How are you assessing the learning process, the product, higher order thinking skills and application to specific contexts such as workplace environments?
- What assessment styles are suitable for your context?
- When do you need to start preparing for these changes so that you meet any necessary approval processes along the way?