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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.
Read how effective, ethical engagement forms the UTS approach for generative AI in GenerativeAI@UTS: effective, ethical engagement.
The following checklist includes some of the ways we recommend getting started with GenAI in your subject.
Prior to class
Decide whether and/or how students in your subject can use GenAI in their assessments
- The AI-resilience diagnostic for assessment tasks resource will help you to reflect on your current assessment and provides some suggestions for activities and strategies you can use to help students complete their assignments ethically and successfully.
- This interactive guide to using GenAI in your assessments is also a useful tool to reflect on your assessment and consider which option is best for you.
- Determine if small modifications and adaptions of your assessment tasks are needed/necessary to ensure academic integrity in the coming semester.
- If you are allowing the use of GenAI in your assessment, you will need to clearly communicate that with your students. Similarly, if you are not allowing the use of GenAI in assessment in your subject, explain why you have set the assessment and how it links to professional practice.
Try the tools most likely to be relevant to your field – use prompts related to the subject’s assessments and consider whether your assessments are at risk of misconduct if students use GenAI. It might also be useful to look into how others in your field are using GenAI in their teaching or adapting assessments.
In your first class
Discuss the use of GenAI and academic integrity in your subject 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
- All staff and students have now got access to Microsoft Co-pilot. 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?