Many faculty and students are using Generative AI (GAI) in both academic work and their personal lives. UNCG has a posted GAI policy that provides a variety of options for addressing GAI in your course and offers suggested syllabus language to make your approach transparent to students. UNCG’s policy allows for instructor choice and flexibility to exclude or incorporate GAI. Instructors should discuss their approach with students to ensure they understand how GAI is used or not used in your particular course.
The UTLC website offers resources on incorporating GAI into your courses and UNCG’s Artificial Intelligence Hub provides resources and guidance for GAI use across campus.
Here are a few resources as you consider possible approaches for using GAI in class:
- Focus on AI Literacy development. AI Literacy offers a set of skills for understanding, ethically using, and critically evaluating AI. Several frameworks, like Digital Promise and Oregon State’s Revised Bloom’s for AI, offer guidance on scaffolding and developing AI Literacy skills.
- Explore how GAI is being used in your discipline or field, and consider how your colleagues are using GAI. The AI Pedagogy Project in metaLab(at) Harvard offers tools for exploring AI in teaching along with an AI Assignment Database. Harvard Business Impact offers a Teaching with AI guide that provides resources on everything from prompt engineering to ways to experiment with GAI in teaching.
- Discuss with students the potential impacts of GAI in your field and discipline, and why you embrace GAI or exclude it in your course. Many students, and instructors, have significant ethical and environmental concerns with GAI use and may not want to use GAI. Including student voice in your process can help shape your approach.