AI-Enabled Teaching Excellence Workshops
The Summer 2025 AI-Enabled Teaching Excellence Workshop Series offers a weekly, hands-on opportunity to explore practical ways to integrate AI into your teaching. Designed for flexibility, these sessions focus on time-saving strategies, responsible AI use, and real classroom applications for WSB faculty and instructors. Join us to equip yourself and your students with essential AI proficiency for the evolving workplace.
Summer 2025 Webinar Schedule
Join the AI-Enabled Teaching Excellence workshops to start integrating AI into your teaching. At each session you’ll:
- Apply time-saving AI strategies immediately in your teaching preparation.
- Discover new ways to deepen student learning through AI-supported methods.
- Approach AI use with a clearer understanding of ethical considerations and best practices.
Our summer series has concluded. You can view recordings and access additional resources from each session below. Stay tuned for more AI learning opportunities in the future!
Workshop Resources
Below you will find summaries and resources from previously held workshops.
Make your own copy of the AI-Enabled Toolkit to personalize and add items from each workshop session. Remember to bookmark your copy!
Additional Handout: Find a variety of frameworks (i.e., SIFT, CREATE, and more)
Take advantage of this template for creating a lecture, activity, or discussion in mere minutes:
New! The FERPA + Policy Quick Reference:
Additional handout: Explore prompt libraries from a variety of trusted resources:
Use this template for co-creating assignments and quizzes with (and for) generative AI:
New resources!
Additional resources: The AI Series Resource Library is a curation of AI frameworks, workflows, and sample prompts for teaching organized by the type of materials you’re looking to create.
Handout: Learn about the characteristics of effective feedback and try out three core strategies to use with AI.
Activity: Create your own feedback resources!
Additional resources: This workshop encourages us to reconsider our philosophies around grading and evaluation. Read these to learn more.
- Rethinking Evaluation: Feedback and Grading
- Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a framework for categorizing cognitive skills and may help you in defining you evaluation.
Handout: Utilize these six ethical pillars as you start to incorporate AI into your teaching.
Reflection: Take time to reflect on some responsible use scenarios to help prepare you and your students for ethical AI use.
Activity: Apply these strategies to enhance critical engagement with AI tools in your assignments.
Additional resources: Model ethical use of AI tools through transparency and responsible attribution.
- Attribution (Sample) Language for AI Use
- Generative AI Transparency Statement GB 360 (Credit and thanks to Dr. Bess Malson-Huddle and Dr. Kassia Krzus-Shaw for sharing.)
- Institutional & School Guidance on AI Use
- AI & Institutional Data usage policies: The university’s present guidance is that NotebookLM, Gemini and Copilot are not authorized for use with institutional data classified as either “sensitive” or “restricted” (see: https://it.wisc.edu/generative-ai-services-uw-madison/ as well as https://data.wisc.edu/data-governance/data-classification/ for additional context on how UW-Madison data classifications are determined).
- Dive even deeper with Dani’s AI Ethics Reading List!
Activity: Can you “Spot the Bot”? Read through these two writing samples and identify the one written by AI. (Find the solutions and hints in the annotated version.)
- Use this Spot the Bot Checklist to guide your evaluation of written work.
Application: Use this guide to design a short classroom activity that uses AI-generated content.
Note: The recording was not captured during this session. Please explore the resources below and view the slides for more information.
Handout: Take advantage of these guides for enhancing your research skills with AI tools.
- Instructor Guide: Academic Research with AI Tools
- VERIFY SMARTER: A Student Guide to Fact-Checking AI
Activity: Explore how AI tools can support early-stage academic research. This two-part mini task gives you hands-on practice with both Gemini (or Copilot) and NotebookLM.
Additional Resource: New to NotebookLM? Use this guide to learn more and get started using this powerful tool.
Presentation: In PDF format.
Handout: Make your own copy of today’s handout. Includes links to AI tools, samples, and prompts you can use to create your own media using AI. (note: after clicking the link you will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Doc; it will be stored in your Drive automatically.)
Direct links to samples: View the samples of AI-generated media by following the links below.
Session slides: View the speaker’s notes below the slides for prompts to build your own case-scenario.
Additional resources: Use the tools below to create additional elements for your scenarios.
- Mockaroo: build unique databases for your scenarios.
- Synthea: create realistic health data for your medical-based scenario.
- ElevenLabs: use an AI voice generator & text-to-speech tool to quickly produce audio content for your scenario.
Session slides: Follow along by viewing the speaker’s notes in the slide deck.
Coach Discernment: Help your students critically evaluate AI results with this handout.
Activity: Address some of your most common challenges with assessment using AI.
Additional resource: Dive in and redesign your course assessments to help prepare your students for a world where AI is always within reach.