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AI-Enabled Teaching Excellence Workshops

The Summer 2026 AI-Enabled Teaching Excellence Workshop Series offers a bi-weekly 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 skills for the evolving world.

Summer 2026 Workshop Schedule & Resources

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 schedule is below; each session will be on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:00pm CT. Use the toggle headers below to see session descriptions, Zoom links, and resources shared. All workshops will be recorded and posted in the playlist below within a week. You can also view our archived recordings from Summer 2025 at the bottom of this page.

As AI reshapes how students work and think, it also gives us new reasons to design assessments that reveal growth, reasoning, and judgment. In this session, we focus on designing assessments that make student thinking visible, growth measurable, and learning genuinely difficult to fake. You will leave with a practical, discipline-adaptable framework you can apply immediately, a ready-to-use handout with fill-in-the-blank redesign tools for your own assignments, and concrete strategies for making visible learning sustainable at scale, including how to use AI as feedback infrastructure without adding to your grading load, or running afoul of FERPA.

Students in Actuarial Science 650 do some ‘vibe coding’ using Google’s AI Studio to learn how to mathematically assess financial risks related to uncertain life events. In this session, Gordon Enderle from Risk and Insurance will share how he incorporates AI into his teaching including a focus on applied learning using AI Studio to create apps.

  • Presented by Gordon Enderle (Risk & Insurance)

If students are only using AI to brainstorm bullet points or draft essays, they’re missing the real-world skills they actually need, and honestly, they’re getting bored.

In this session, we’ll look at what AI is genuinely good at and where it completely fails, so you can build practical activities tailored to your specific discipline. We’ll focus on how to keep students in the driver’s seat as analytical thinkers and ensure they aren’t just doing the same generic AI assignments in every class. You’ll walk away with a clear playbook and adaptable ideas that you can easily weave right into your existing content while hitting your core learning outcomes.

Ever wish you had a course assistant that actually knows your syllabus, your readings, and the way you think about your material? In this session, we’ll explore practical, low-barrier ways to build AI chatbots tailored to your course with tools we already have access to: NotebookLM, Gemini Gems, and spoiler alert: a pre-built Canvas-integrated option possibly coming soon. No coding required. We’ll walk through how to prepare your materials, set up your chatbot, and think critically about what these tools can and can’t do for your students.

Critically, we’ll also tackle the two questions instructors ask most:

  • How do you teach students to use a chatbot in ways that actually deepen their thinking rather than shortcut it? And,
  • How do you design for academic integrity from the start rather than chase it after the fact?

You’ll leave with a template to create your own working prototype, a deployment plan, and a framework for introducing the tool to your students with clear expectations baked in.

AI-enabled, AI-native, AI-powered, AI-infused, or AI-forward. Regardless of which one you pick in that buzzword salad, each of us is working through the same challenge: AI now shapes how we design our courses.
 
In this session, Milt Hwang shares a real-time update on how he’s redesigning one of his Marketing classes so that his students can leverage AI even more deeply,  while remaining in control of the critical thinking and judgment. 
 
While some of the planned examples will appear to be more easily applied to Marketing, he will provide actionable comparisons that you can apply to any business course.  Some of Milt’s planned topics include:
  • The ‘end of 10 blue links”
  • Show me the Notebook(LM) !
  • “Reporting vs. Presenting”
  • “No Answers, Just the Questions, Please”
You’ll walk away with a set of specific re-design concepts that you can apply for your fall courses, including Milt’s interpretation of AI-enabled workshop topics this summer!
 

More info coming soon!

  • Presented by Karin Spader (WSB T&L)
  • Zoom link coming soon!

Archived Recordings

The resources below are from our summer 2025 workshop series. You are welcome to explore the slides, resources, and recordings by session below. Alternatively, you could explore these resources by topic by visiting our Navigating Generative AI in Your Teaching page.

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.

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. 

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.)

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.

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 Gemini Notebook (formerly 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.