AI Symposium Handbook

Did you miss the Fall Faculty Symposium? One of our resources was this Faculty Handbook for AI in Teaching and Learning. It includes information from the different interactive sessions. Please keep in mind, this isn’t a rule book. It’s meant to spark ideas and open conversations about how AI might fit into your teaching. Inside, you’ll find examples and considerations to help you reflect, adapt, and experiment as you see fit.

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Tech: LockDown Browser

A new tool to ensure secure assessments in Canvas 

Denison has a new Canvas tool that will enable students to type their assessments on their own computer without access to electronic sources, websites, or AI: LockDown Browser. Instructors can create a LockDown assessment within Canvas quizzes, choosing whether students will have no access to websites or whether they have access to specific websites.

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Tech: Help Your Students Keep Time During Exams

Last week we held a student focus-group to hear their thoughts on our campus learning spaces. One topic that came up: wall clocks. Students appreciate being able to quickly tell how much time is left, especially when taking an exam. One student appreciated an instructor who digitally projected the time on the classroom screen. Here are a few websites that enable you to do so:

timeanddate.com

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Tech: Why the HEIC can’t I open my photos?

iPhone and Android devices can compress images and videos taken with HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container), HEIF (High Efficiency Image File), and HEVC (High Efficiency Video Encoding). These formats offer better compression and take up less space than many other formats.

But you may run into situations where you need to use the images or videos in a software suite that does not support those file types.

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Teaching: To Use AI or Not to Use AI? A Student’s Burden

This Inside Higher Ed article asks us to take a moment to empathize with students: “no previous generation has been faced with the ever-present option to offload their work, at no cost, with a low likelihood of immediate negative consequences.” Students today are being “responsibilized” for academic integrity in ways that they are not prepared for.

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Tech: Help your students track projects and assignments

Google Sheets has a new feature that automatically creates a timeline from a spreadsheet that lists tasks. The timeline looks much like a Gantt chart you might find in project management software like Monday.com, Asana, or Microsoft Planner.

Have a look at this sample timeline for a student group research project proposal. To use the feature, at minimum your google sheet needs a task column and a dates column.

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Tech: Ever tried an AI sandwich?

During a recent AI presentation, someone asked me, “How do you use AI the most?” Without hesitation, I answered, “For writing.” Even though this was a math-focused audience, the response felt natural. My role as director of the CfLT and my growing work in AI education have shifted my focus- I’m no longer crafting mathematical arguments but writing for a broader, more general audience.

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