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Generative AI in Teaching and Learning – Link Corrected
Rapidly advancing generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and DALL-E are changing teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz leaving no discipline untouched.
The link to the guidance message on the use of AI detection tools has been corrected.
Dear Colleagues,
With the start of fall quarter approaching, I write with guidance for addressing student use of Artificial Intelligence in the classroom.
Rapidly advancing generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and DALL-E are changing teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz leaving no discipline untouched.
Generative AI tools will continue to affect teaching and learning environments, and clear communications from you to your students on what is allowable in your courses are essential.
I strongly recommend that you take a proactive approach to communicating with students about generative AI technologies by integrating an AI policy into your course syllabi. AI policies make the biggest impact on your students when they are designed with attention to the specificities of your discipline and your class. The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) has created a comprehensive guide to crafting a personalized AI policy. You can find it on their website, along with helpful information about preventing and responding to unauthorized AI use and some intriguing possibilities for incorporating AI into your teaching.
While I encourage you to read the TLC’s guide in its entirety, I particularly want to reiterate the campus’s guidance on the use of AI detection tools that you received in March 2023 from Vice Provosts and Deans Biehl and Hughey. Please be sure that any policy you adopt with regard to AI detection tools aligns with this guidance and protects the rights of your students.
I empathize with the challenges faculty and graduate students have confronted in the instructional space over the past few years — they have been staggering. At the same time, I am continually impressed by the intentionality and creativity you have brought to teaching. In many cases, you have responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by generative AI by integrating it into your courses in innovative ways; for others still, you have reimagined your assessments to make them more authentic to your disciplines and less prone to the ill effects of AI. These efforts require time and patience, and if any of you would like additional support with the design of your courses, I encourage you to contact the Teaching and Learning Center at tlc@ucsc.edu.
Sincerely yours,
Lori
Lori Kletzer
Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor