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🤖🔧 AI in Ed Custom Bots/GPTs Bulletin Board

Custom Bots/GPTs is a subgroup of AI in Education devoted to sharing experiments, workflows, and resources for building custom AI tools in higher education.

Key links:

🎥 Past Recordings

💬 Custom Bots Slack Channel �💥 Interest form for future presenters

📌 Short Link to this Board for sharing with others: edushare.ing/bots

If you have any questions please reach out to�Casandra Silva Sibilin

casandra.s@gmail.com, LinkedIn

Thank you!

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🤖🔧 Past Presenters

Kyle Chalupczynski

Mar 9, 2026

Simon Cullen

Feb 19, 2026

Jerilee Petralba & Jaime A. Hannans

Jan 6, 2026

Christiane Reves

Dec 2, 2025

Justin Horvath

Nov 13, 2025

José Antonio Bowen

Oct 9, 2025

Kyle Chalupczynski

Sep 26, 2025

Keirah Comstock & Anna Mills

Aug 12, 2025

John Swope & Tina Austin

Jul 14, 2025

Jason Gulya & James Bedford

Jun 10, 2025

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🤖🔧 Past Presenters

Brent Warner

May 6, 2025

Daniel Ernesto Ronderos López & Carsten Bergenholtz

Apr 8, 2025

Renee Parker

Mar 11, 2025

Ashley Etemadi

Feb 11, 2025

Iain Coggins, Jerilee Petralba & Jaime Hannans

Jan 6, 2025

Amber Hedquist

Dec 2, 2024

Cristián Espinoza & Andy Lucchesi

Nov 12, 2024

Alexander M. Sidorkin & Tiffanie Zaug

Oct 24, 2024

Jeanne Beatrix Law & Laura Lacasa Yost

Sep 16, 2024

Minh Anh Trinh & Kyle Falbo

Aug 13, 2024

John Swope, Tina Austin & Thomas Thesen

Jul 18, 2024

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Simon Cullen

Co-Founder & President | Disagree Wisely

Faculty Research Fellow | Heterodox Academy

Visiting Research Professor | UNC-CH

Nicholas DiBella

Co-founder and Chief Technology and Operations Officer of Disagree Wisely and AI Research Scientist at Heterodox Academy

1:30pm ET

Zoom Registration:

19 Feb 2026

Beyond Bots: Facilitative AI for Student-to-Student Civil Discourse

AI in Education Custom Bots/GPTs

Participants will:

    • Discover a novel approach to transforming difficult conversations
    • Gain hands-on experience with the Sway AI platform through small group discussions
    • Explore strategies for deploying it in courses and campus programming

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October Showcase of Custom Bots/GPTs

AI in ED Subgroup

Workshop Topics:

Knowledge Bases, Troubleshooting, Different Platforms, Open vs. Closed Chatbots

Alexander M. “Sasha” Sidorkin

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer California State University

Tiffanie Zaug

Post-Doctoral Fellow University of Central Florida

Zoom Registration:

12:00-1:00pm ET

24 Oct 2024

Casandra Silva Siblin

Host and Lecturer

City University of New York

Live Workshop

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AI in Education Custom Bots/GPTs Subgroup

September Showcase

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Workshop Topics:

- How to build custom bots

- Knowledge sources

- Different platforms

Jeanne Beatrix Law PhD

Professor of English Kennesaw State University

GPT for First-Year Composition

Laura Lacasa Yost PhD

Instructional Designer Kirkwood Community College

Bot for Dietary and Wellness Habits

Zoom Registration:

11:00am-12:00pm ET

16 Sep 2024

Casandra Silva Siblin

Host and Lecturer

City University of New York

Live Workshop

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AI in Education Custom Bots/GPTs Subgroup

August Showcase

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Workshop Topics Micro Apps Custom Bots/GPTs

Zoom Registration:

12:00pm-1:00pm ET

13 Aug 2024

Casandra Silva Siblin

Host and Lecturer

City University of New York

Live Workshop

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AI in Education series

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Subgroup on Custom Bots/GPTs

Navigating the AI Landscape

John Swope

Guest Speaker MicroApps Template

h t t p s : / / s h o r t u r l . a t / G y f f U

Tina Austin

Guest Speaker

Regenerative Medicine Mentor

Workshop Discussions & Insights

Custom GPTs

MicroApps

10:00am - 12:00am

18 July 2024

Casandra Silva Siblin Host and Lecturer

City University of New York

Next webinar Registration:

August guests: Ian Murray and Kyle Falbo

Thomas Thesen

Guest Speaker

AI Patient Actor

Live Workshop