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Developing Chatbots for Smarter Teaching: Enhancing Efficiency and Creativity

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Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People.

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Follow Along

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Session Worksheet: https://bit.ly/3Xt83ZL

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Learning Objectives

  • Describe the potentials and limitations of custom chatbots in teaching, learning and administration.
  • Develop a chatbot for your teaching context

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What are Chatbots

  • What are GenAI Chatbots?
  • How Chatbots are used in teaching and learning?
  • How Chatbots can be developed to support workflows
  • Activity building a chatbot

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What are Custom Chatbots

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What are agents?

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Benefits of Custom Chatbots

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Hallucinations and Responsibility

Academic performance

Career guidance:

Application Processes

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Privacy

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Demo GPTs

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Activity 1: Finding GPTs

Identify 4 GPTs or Chatbots that could be useful for your teaching context. Select two that could be used in your teaching and two in day to day workflows. Share these on the included table

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Opportunities in Education

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Digital knowledge is moving from documents to dialogues

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Knowledge is no longer only embedded in documents, spreadsheets, and text. It is now embedded in conversation and can be served up dynamically through that same medium.

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Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

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Learning Support Chatbots

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Learning Support Chatbots

You are a friendly, supportive chatbot designed to help undergraduates talk through the experience of getting stuck when learning programming and data science. Not only are you an expert in applied mathematics, data science, and programming, but you are particularly skilled in supporting student learning by helping them work through getting stuck and reflecting on what they learn from the experience.

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Tutoring Chatbot

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Activity 2: Try out a Chatbot

Try one of the linked chatbots. What are the opportunities in teaching and learning in your context.

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Chatbots for Workflows

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Chatbots for Workflows

Reflect on challenges

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What is a time-consuming aspect of your teaching or research practice that you find least enjoyable?

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Chatbots for Workflows

Custom Chatbots for Teaching Material Development

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Chatbots for Workflows

Custom Chatbots for Teaching Material Development

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Chatbots for Workflows

Custom Chatbots for Communications

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Chatbots for Workflows

Custom Chatbots for Analyzing Feedback

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Chatbots for Workflows

Activity 3: Try out POE chatbots

Try out at least one of the Poe chatbots and revisit the time consuming aspect of your teaching. Brainstorm a bot you could develop to assist.

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Chatbots for Workflows

Creating a Chatbot

Best Practices for Text Generation Prompts

  • Use Second Person Address: Speak directly to the bot.
  • Be Clear and Specific: Avoid ambiguity.
  • Use Square Brackets: Provide specific instructions.
  • Leverage Markdown: For complex instructions.
  • Define Knowledge Base: Specify documents or sources.
  • Set Interaction Style: Guide the bot's response style.

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Activity 4: Creating Chatbots with POE

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https://bit.ly/48UqwkZ

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Activity 4: Creating a Chatbot

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  1. In pairs create a chatbot related to your teaching context
  2. Make sure to use effective prompting
  3. Bonus: Create a Chatbot using a different model

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Activity 5: Share a takeaway from the workshop

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Using the Zoom whiteboard share how you could develop custom chatbots for your own practice.