Artificial Intelligence | ChatGPT for Instructors

This guide covers generative AI--that is AI that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. Examples of generative AI include: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Eleven Labs.

Although our goal is to keep this guide up to date, new developments happen so quickly.  It is therefore possible this may be out of date when you read it.

See also the Student Guide to ChatGPT.

If you are new to the practice of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, these short videos provide a useful introduction.

Practical AI for Instructors and Students were created by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and are 10-12 minutes each.

• Part 1: Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students
• Part 2: Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Part 3: Prompting AI
• Part 4: AI for Teachers
• Part 5: AI for Students

Brief tutorials from the University of Arizona Libraries listed below. Total time to complete all four is approximately 30-40 minutes.

1. The Technology Behind ChatGPT
2. How Does ChatGPT Aim to Prevent Harmful Use?
3. What is Generative AI?
4. Using ChatGPT Effectively

ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. We've created this guide for use with students.

• Generate Topics with ChatGPT.  A guide for students from LVC Library.

AI literacy is the ability to:

• Critically evaluate AI technologies
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with AI
• Use AI as a tool, online, at home, and in the workplace.

(Definition is from a 2020 paper by Long and Magerko, which synthesized a variety of interdisciplinary literature into a set of core competencies).