Teach with AI: Faculty-led Workshops

Teaching Smarter with ChatGPT and Codex: A Hands-On Faculty Workshop

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Date: Sep 09 or Sep 11

Time: 9:30am -12pm

Location: SJSU MLK AI Center (1st Floor) or Zoom

Instructor: Jalal (Jay) Sarabadani, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Lucas College and Graduate School of Business

Preparing courses, creating assessments, supporting students, and developing engaging learning experiences require significant time and effort. Recent advances in AI provide new opportunities to streamline these tasks, allowing faculty to devote more time to teaching, mentoring, and student learning.

Sound familiar?

• Creating quizzes and exams every semester takes too much time.
• I wish I could provide more individualized support to my students.
• Creating engaging lecture slides and teaching materials is time-consuming.
• I have ideas for interactive learning experiences, but I don’t know how to build them.
• I’m answering the same student questions over and over.

This workshop explores practical ways ChatGPT and Codex can support the teaching workflow, from developing instructional materials and designing assessments to supporting students and creating interactive learning experiences.

Participants will learn how to:

• Design engaging teaching materials more efficiently.
• Develop assessments by generating question banks, creating multiple versions of quizzes and exams, and preparing assessments for Canvas.
• Build AI-powered study guides, quiz assistants, and course-specific GPTs using their own course materials.
• Create AI assistants that answer frequently asked questions based on course syllabi and policies.
• Build interactive course websites, study guides, dashboards, and educational applications using Codex—without extensive programming experience.

Our goal is to focus on practical, transferable examples that faculty can immediately adapt to their own teaching, regardless of discipline or previous AI experience.

Spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time designing meaningful learning experiences for your students.