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UT Tyler AI Syllabus Language
All UT Tyler faculty must specify the extent to which students are permitted to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their courses. Please include the provided Artificial Intelligence Syllabus language.
Download AI Syllabus LanguageUsing AI as an Instructor
You don't have to overhaul your teaching to benefit from AI. For many faculty, these tools offer a low-lift way to save time, deepen insight into student performance, and bring a little more creativity into course design. Below are some of the ways you might put AI to work in your courses.
Course Material Development
AI can assist in creating course materials, presentations, and discussion topics based on your syllabus, objectives, and current developments in your field.
Practice Problem Generation
Generate a ready-to-edit bank of questions so you're not building every assessment from scratch using your course objectives.
Explaining Difficult Concepts
Generate alternative explanations, fresh analogies, and concrete examples across different levels of prior knowledge.
Case Study Development
Build realistic, discipline-specific scenarios your students work through and analyze.
Accessibility Support
AI can help make course materials more inclusive without a significant lift on your end.
Local & Community Connections
AI can help ground course content in the East Texas context your students actually live in, making examples feel immediate and familiar.
For more specific information about allowed and prohibited AI usage at UT Tyler, view the AI Usage Guide.
Define Expectations: Clearly explain what constitutes plagiarism, including the use of AI tools without attribution.
Policy Transparency: Outline how students can use AI appropriately in your course, including guidelines for citation.
AI Citation: Provide examples of how to cite AI tools if students use them, ensuring transparency in their work.
Encourage Originality: Stress the importance of developing their ideas and voice rather than over-relying on AI.
Set Boundaries: Clearly state which parts of assignments can or cannot involve AI tools.
Promote Analysis
Over Copying: Encourage students to use AI for idea generation but require them to critically analyze and synthesize information.
Educate First: Use tools like Turnitin or Grammarly as teaching aids, allowing students to identify and fix unintentional plagiarism.
Discuss Results: Provide feedback to help students understand and address issues rather than penalizing them outright.
Focus on Growth: Guide students on how to improve their writing, research, and critical thinking skills.
Model Integrity: Demonstrate how responsible use of technology enhances learning rather than shortcuts it.
Challenge Students: Assign tasks that require them to go beyond surface-level information, using their own insights and analysis.
Promote Inquiry: Encourage students to question and verify the outputs of AI tools rather than accepting them at face value.
By creating a classroom culture that values critical thinking, originality, and transparency, you can help students navigate the challenges and opportunities AI presents while upholding academic integrity.