Teaching with GenAI 

Using GenAI in teaching practices 

If, how, and where these tools figure in your design of courses and learning activities, and whether students use them in course work and assessments is for you, and your Department, unit, or academic program to decide.

Download: Teaching with GenAI – A quickstart guide for faculty

Guidelines

Use cases to support you in applying GenAI in your course design, learning activities, student course work, and assessments.

See additional information and examples on the AI in Teaching and Learning website

  1. Building course materials and assessments
    Faculty may use GenAI for developing practice questions and rubrics, as well as discovery and curation of additional learning resources for students.
  2. Providing feedback to students, either individual or summarized*
  3. Grading against a rubric*
  4. Summarizing feedback from students* (eg textual from an in-class survey)

Considerations

  1. Inputting student work 
    Due to considerations of privacy, data security, and intellectual property, educators should not submit student original work, without their permission, to GenAI tools that have not undergone a PIA review and been approved for that use, including AI detector tools. 
     
  1. Human review of content 
    Any content produced by GenAI used in teaching must be reviewed for accuracy, appropriateness, bias, and other possible harms by an instructor or TA, to the best of their abilities, before sharing with students. 
     
  1. Transparency of usage 
    Educators should clarify for students which materials are wholly or partly generated by GenAI and clearly cite the source of those materials. 
     
  1. Student use of GenAI for assessed work 
    Educators may only require students to use GenAI tools for their coursework that have undergone a UBC Privacy Impact Assessment process. Other tools may be suggested as optional Refer to the PIA for GenAI Instructional Use web page for more information. 
     

*  GenAI tools may be used for both formative feedback and summative assessment (grading) of student work only if they have been through a PIA review and been approved for this use.