Info for Staff

What we can do for your students

Student Learning Development are the central point of information for students about how to use AI in their university work.

We translate central UofG policy into student-facing advice about:

• what AI is
• how (and how not to) use AI
• how to assess various different types of AI tools (in terms of suitability to a task, academic integrity, and reliability of the specific tools themselves)

Schools are advised by central UofG policy to first decide locally on which of 3 levels of AI are allowable in their courses: not at all; under certain circumstances as outlined by the School; or without restriction (though it must always be acknowledged where used).

 

SLD can then work with you to:

• deliver timetabled lectures and workshops within your students' courses
• provide asynchronous, online resources to help guide your students
• develop referencing guidelines for the various (and potentially novel) uses of AI by students in your discipline

 

Typical in-course session plan

• First hour:
  • Define the scope of what we mean by AI tools - both generative and other non-generative types
  • Discuss what these can do
  • Discuss what these can't do
  • Highlight the proprietary and the continuously developing nature of most tools
• Second hour
  • Facilitate an exercise running some generative AI prompts and critiquing the outputs
  • Explore how the AI typically does a job, but generally is not able to explain how it did that job - limited utility for learning take-home messages
  • Explore hallucinations, and confidently-delivered but incorrect responses or invalid feedback on submitted work
  • Explore situations where generative AI is useful and academically valid
  • Emphasise where we expect students to take ownership and responsibility over the work they submit - plagiarism and academic integrity
  • How to reference AI

Get advice or set up a taught session: contact SLD's Effective Learning Adviser for your College