Exploring Generative AI
Currently, AI tools are being created faster than can be documented and the options can be overwhelming. The key to exploring generative AI is to find a tool that is useful to you.
UNCG has two officially-approved AI Tools, but faculty and instructors may wish to use other AI tools. Please check with your ATS if you are using or would like to use a AI tool beyond the two below:
LinkedIn Learning Resources on Copilot
Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot
Copilot is the encouraged generative AI platform for UNCG and is part of the M365 suite. Where other platforms, like ChatGPT, have significant security and intellectual property concerns, Copilot has more safeguards that prevent your information from being shared and stored beyond UNCG.
Enhance Teaching and Learning with Copilot
Copilot is the encouraged generative AI platform for UNCG and is part of the M365 suite. Where other platforms, like ChatGPT, have significant security and intellectual property concerns, Copilot has more safeguards that prevent your information from being shared and stored beyond UNCG.
Adobe Express Essentials
Learn the basics of using Adobe Express, from editing a template to creating new images.
Your College or School ATS is happy to assist with questions.
Additional Support
NCFDD Generative AI Support
NCFDD held the Reclaiming Our Time: AI and Academic Productivity webinar in February 2025. UNCG is an institutional member of NCFDD, you can setup a free account using your UNCG email.
Linkedin Learning: What is Generative AI?
NCFDD held the Reclaiming Our Time: AI and Academic Productivity webinar in February 2025. UNCG is an institutional member of NCFDD, you can setup a free account using your UNCG email.
Linkedin Learning: Generative AI and Higher Education
Learn how Generative AI works, how it can be used for instructional purposes and how to have conversations with your students about AI as they develop their scholarly practice.
Linkedin Learning: Applications of Generative AI in Learning and Development
Learn how to develop and curate high-quality content, construct interactive workshops and training modules, and craft relevant simulations, role plays, and coaching scripts. Gain the skills you need to design assessment tools to evaluate learning effectiveness, ensuring your programs meet organizational goals and learner needs. Plus, access a curated list of generative AI tools tailored for use in learning and development initiatives.
Linkedin Learning: Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Senior AI engineer Ronnie Sheer guides you through what large language models are and what problems they may be able to solve. Ronnie dives into text generation, starting with a warning to use text generation AI responsibly, then moving on to Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. He introduces you to the AI generated image landscape
Generative AI and Bloom’s Taxonomy
The Online/Ecampus at Oregon State University developed an approach to Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning that incorporates generative AI as a potential partner for learning. In the Advancing Meaningful Learning in the Age of AI, they begin answering questions about the impact of generative AI on cognition and critical thinking.
Additional Resources
Generative AI Technology is evolving with additional abilities and more nuanced outputs. It’s important to keep learning and discussing this technology with your students.
Here are some resources to get you started.
Will ChatGPT make us better, happier teachers? by Betsy Barre at Wake Forest University (January 2023)
Inside Higher Education, ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now, Susan D’Agostino (January 11, 2023) This article shares advice from multiple college instructors about their approach to generative AI. Some great quotes from this article:
Our approach to teaching should be guided not by one recent product but by reflection on the lives our students are likely to lead in the 2030s.
Channel anxiety over ChatGPT into productive experimentation.
Help students be prepared to fact check any AI-generated writing outputs.
Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Episode: Designing Courses in the Age of AI with Maria Andersen (45 minutes) During this episode, Dr. Andersen discusses how to prepare our higher ed classes during a time of acceleration of change.
Lecture Breakers Podcast Episode: How to Use ChatGPT to Create Engaging Experiences with Dr. Jason Gulya (57 minutes) During this episode, Dr. Gulya, an English professor, talks through assignments and activities that he has created. He even discusses how he uses ChatGPT to help him create grading rubrics. He advocates talking to students about this tool, do not ban it or ignore it, talk to them.
Sample ChatGPT assignments from Dr. Jason Gulya, Lecture Breakers Podcast
Johnson, S.M., Coley, M., Bandy, J., Bradley, J., Molvig, O. (2023). Teaching in the Age of AI. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/
The Potential of AI in Assessment Feedback (August 2022) from Times Higher Education
Three Things to Know about AI Tools and Teaching (December 2022) from Agile Learning Derek Bruff’s blog on teaching and learning
How AI is impacting higher ed (January 2023) from the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast