Hello and welcome to our video on revolutionizing faculty engagement by boosting discussion form responses with the power of ChatGPT. In this episode, we’re going to take a hands-on approach and look at how we could combine our student responses with that of AI to create a forward-thinking classroom experience that really nudges students towards the weekly concepts.
Let’s go ahead and jump into a Word document where I have examples from my halo classroom. During this week, my discussion question number one was to compare and contrast risks and assumptions. What is the core difference and why is it important to identify both?
Below my discussion question, you will see one of the responses from my student. My student says, ‘Hello professor in class’ and goes into kind of a general response and then breaks down actual examples. Now, in this case, I don’t want to use the first paragraph because the student provided a reference that could be tied back to GCU. I don’t want to insert any information into the AI that’s identifiable back to GCU, back to a class, or back to a student. But I don’t have to. I could simply use portions of the student’s response to lean on AI to help me with my response.
In this case, I’m going to go down to where the student lists the assumption examples, the risk examples, and then the stretched resource examples. None of this information is identifiable back to the university, the class, or the student. So I’m going to go ahead and use this inside of ChatGPT.
Let me go ahead and switch over to ChatGPT. Let’s get a new chat going, and to save time, I will paste this into here.
‘Um, I’ve already included the prompt to save time. You are the university professor of a business class. Respond to the following student in 100 words and provide a specific business example, including the name of a real company, and end with a question. I want to help the student bridge the gap between concept and application, and I also want to nudge them further by ending with the question.’
After listing that prompt, I go ahead and paste in the information that we showed from the student’s post. Let’s go ahead and hit enter.
And just like anything in AI, when you ask it for something, you want to double-check its response to you. So in this case, certainly understanding and addressing assumptions and risks in a business project is crucial. Let’s consider an example from the tech industry.
Perfect, it’s given me an example of Microsoft and Windows Vista. Once again, bridging that gap between concept and application and then ending with a question, nudging the student further into the weekly concepts.
Now, what’s nice about this is once you have your prompt developed and it’s working for you, you don’t have to rewrite the prompt every time. If we go back into my classroom and look at the next example from my student, in this case, the student did a really nice job of providing a summary in the beginning. Now, the second half is actually talking about Kitchen Heaven. This is a project that we work on throughout the class. It’s something that’s inside of our syllabus. It’s something that could be identified and traced back to GCU or back to my classroom. So I don’t want to include that in AI, but I can use this first part of the student response. I would copy that from the discussion form, go into ChatGPT, and I could just change the first one. I can keep the same prompt and now just replace the student response with a new student response and hit enter.
And in this case, it’s giving me a new genuine response. And for this student, it’s exploring Apple. So what this allows me to do is allows me to create individual responses for each one of my students. If it picks Apple two times, I could simply ask it to pick a different company. So I can make sure every student gets a unique response to this concept. Right now, I just changed it to Amazon, and it’s ending with that question.
Bridging the gap between concept and application while also nudging them further into the weekly topics. I hope that gave you some good ideas of how you could use the discussion forms and AI to really enhance your classroom. Look forward to future videos.
