Author: Celena Kusch

In recent months, a range of journal and news articles featuring Harvard's AI Tutors have touted the effectiveness of AI tutorbots in fields like physics, accounting, and statistics. Harvard's AI tutor studies have found that students achieve greater academic success and engagement with personal tutorbots that can generate practice problems and questions or coach students … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: The New World of AI Tutoring

In the world of AI, context matters. A prompt that begins "I am a university professor teaching an undergraduate course..." will produce a completely different result than a prompt for a teenage superhero attempting to balance coursework with saving the world (AI-Generated Image). If you find yourself repeatedly reminding ChatGPT.edu about your context or your … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Custom Instructions for Responsive Chats

The UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students stresses the importance of AI ethics and a human-centered mindset. As educators, our goal is to guide students in their progress from novice to expert. Helping students develop responsible and effective AI prompting techniques can be an important part of their learning journey. 100 Chats for College Students … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Coaching Students for Ethical AI Use

Providing timely and meaningful feedback to students is one of the most crucial and most time-consuming instructional activities. The Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) offers the AI Virtual Assistant (AVA) to leverage its password-protected, closed GenAI environment to streamline and speed up the grading and feedback process. Instructors may use AVA to suggest feedback comments … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: AI Support for Feedback in Blackboard

Beginning in Fall 2025, USC Upstate is making available ChatGPT.Edu accounts for faculty, staff, and students. Along with Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT.Edu is the University-provided Generative AI (GenAI) tool. Getting Started with ChatGPT.Edu Your ChatGPT.Edu account enables you to use single-sign-on with your USC Upstate email account and enjoy GenAI with a high level of privacy … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Welcome to ChatGPT.Edu

Carol Denning-Broadus, Associate Instructor, has always used creative projects to engage her students with complex scientific concepts. In the past, her Introduction to Anthropology courses (ANTH U102) asked students to create analog board games to convey information about rites of passage in different cultures. Today, she uses Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools to enable students … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Engaging Students’ Creativity with GenAI