As we prepare for the upcoming academic year, I’m excited to share a new resource to support your course planning: UT Sage, a virtual instructional designer and AI tutor created to support the responsible use of generative AI in teaching and learning. While UT Sage is currently in beta and officially launching this fall, early access is available now to faculty members interested in using it to plan their fall courses.
UT Sage enhances how students learn. It complements, rather than replaces, the instructional excellence and scholarly insight of our faculty. Using UT Sage is entirely at the discretion of the instructor. You remain central to shaping the learning experience for your students.
Faculty can actively train their UT Sage tutors by defining learning outcomes, identifying common misconceptions, and uploading course-specific materials.
Faculty can get feedback to advance their teaching by using UT Sage’s analytics dashboard. UT Sage can show you how often and in what ways students are using your tutors, which can provide you insight into the questions they are asking most frequently.
Students can interact with UT Sage outside of class time to reinforce key concepts and receive tailored guidance.
It’s free! Designed and developed through a collaboration between Academic Affairs and Enterprise Technology, UT Sage reflects the high teaching and learning standards of our University.
UT Sage meets the compliance and security guidelines of the University. The privacy, security, and copyright and intellectual property rights of you and your students are protected and never shared outside the University.
Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Handbook Review this comprehensive generative AI resource for information on the benefits, complexities and dilemmas associated with teaching and learning.
Copilot chat (free for faculty, staff, students) A secure AI assistant experience used to answer questions, summarize content, generate and edit images (limited to 15 per day). Note: This platform will not access your work emails, files, Teams chats or calendar, or integrate with Microsoft 365 apps.
