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Teaching & Assessment

March 2026

Draft

This activity guide is under development. The structure is in place but the content is not yet complete.

What this task involves

Teaching preparation encompasses creating seminar questions, writing assignment briefs, generating discussion prompts, preparing glosses and explanatory materials, designing assessment rubrics, producing handouts and slides, and developing activities that help students engage critically with course material. It also includes designing assessments that remain meaningful in a world where students have access to AI tools.

Where AI tools help

AI assistants are useful for generating first drafts of teaching materials: seminar questions, glosses of difficult concepts, alternative explanations pitched at different levels, discussion prompts, and structured activities. Canvas-style features (available on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude) can produce slides, quizzes, and handouts. Study mode features can create interactive learning sequences.

For assessment design, AI can help draft rubrics, generate sample answers at different grade levels, and stress-test assignment briefs by attempting them — revealing whether the task is trivially completable by an AI or requires genuine scholarly engagement.

What to watch out for

AI-generated teaching materials may be generic, culturally insensitive, or pitched at the wrong level. They may reproduce common misconceptions rather than challenging them. Assessment briefs generated by AI may inadvertently create tasks that reward surface fluency over genuine understanding.

The most important consideration is assessment integrity: designing tasks that require the kind of critical engagement, specialist knowledge, and original argument that AI tools cannot reliably produce. This is not primarily about detection — it is about designing assessments that are genuinely worth doing.

Worked examples

Coming soon.

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