Academic Technology

The AI Design Assistant helps faculty build out their classes in Blackboard. Based on your course titles, descriptions, and documents, it can:  Guide you through building the course structure, Suggest images for banners and design, Generate discussion board or journal prompts,  Create grading rubrics, Generate assignment prompts, test questions, and question banks,  And more. In… Continue Reading Introduction to the Blackboard AI Design Assistant (webinar)

Bard is Google’s offering into the generative AI (GAI) large language model chatbot market (which includes the similar ChatGPT and Claude). Bard differs from its competitors by having access to live Google search data, meaning it has a wider range of (and more up-to-date) information to access. You can use Bard in any number of… Continue Reading Introduction to Google Bard (webinar)

In this interactive workshop, Dr. Amin will discuss best practices for using generative AI both ethically and responsibly in educational settings. Drawing on his expertise in natural language processing and machine learning methods, Dr. Amin will outline the frameworks for ensuring the safety and fairness of AI systems, essential for maintaining trust and integrity in… Continue Reading Ethical and Responsible Use of Generative AI in Education: Building a Large Language Model (webinar)

In this webinar, Dr. Amin and his mentee, Innocent Ababio, will review and leverage their experience developing their own large language model and instruct participants on current best practices for collecting quality datasets, choosing appropriate model architectures, training and fine-tuning parameters, evaluating output, and monitoring for issues like toxicity. This webinar will give faculty firsthand… Continue Reading How to Build a Large Language Model (LLM)(webinar)

This introductory workshop provides a foundation for using AI to improve accessibility and inclusion in your course. Topics will include: What is accessibility, and why is universal design important? Introduction to accessible and inclusive design principles AI tools and techniques to enhance accessibility Best practices for integrating AI responsibly to create more accessible learning environments… Continue Reading Leveraging AI to Advance Accessibility: An Introductory Workshop (webinar)

Please join us for a hands-on session exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its potential applications. In this office-hour style session, our IT staff will introduce you to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, showing you how to access them and the basics of creating prompts (i.e., instructions) to generate desired outputs. During the session,… Continue Reading Generative AI Office Hours

Please join us for a hands-on session exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its potential applications. In this office-hour style session, our IT staff will introduce you to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, showing you how to access them and the basics of creating prompts (i.e., instructions) to generate desired outputs. During the session,… Continue Reading Generative AI Office Hours

Please join us for a hands-on session exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its potential applications. In this office-hour style session, our IT staff will introduce you to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, showing you how to access them and the basics of creating prompts (i.e., instructions) to generate desired outputs. During the session,… Continue Reading Generative AI Office Hours