Welcome to the weekly UTLC Newsletter |
Week of September 16, 2025
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Teaching Tips: Generative AI Use |
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Many faculty and students are using Generative AI (GAI) in both academic work and their personal lives. UNCG has a posted GAI policy that provides a variety of options for addressing GAI in your course and offers suggested syllabus language to make your approach transparent to students. UNCG's policy allows for instructor choice and flexibility to exclude or incorporate GAI. Instructors should discuss their approach with students to ensure they understand how GAI is used or not used in your particular course.
The UTLC website offers resources on incorporating GAI into your courses and UNCG's Artificial Intelligence Hub provides resources and guidance for GAI use across campus.
Here are a few resources as you consider possible approaches for using GAI in class:
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Focus on AI Literacy development. AI Literacy offers a set of skills for understanding, ethically using, and critically evaluating AI. Several frameworks, like Digital Promise and Oregon State's Revised Bloom's for AI, offer guidance on scaffolding and developing AI Literacy skills.
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Explore how GAI is being used in your discipline or field, and consider how your colleagues are using GAI. The AI Pedagogy Project in metaLab(at) Harvard offers tools for exploring AI in teaching along with an AI Assignment Database. Harvard Business Impact offers a Teaching with AI guide that provides resources on everything from prompt engineering to ways to experiment with GAI in teaching.
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Discuss with students the potential impacts of GAI in your field and discipline, and why you embrace GAI or exclude it in your course. Many students, and instructors, have significant ethical and environmental concerns with GAI use and may not want to use GAI. Including student voice in your process can help shape your approach.
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This is just a quick reminder that midterm grades are coming up! The window opens September 19 and closes September 26. Next week's teaching tips will discuss how to contextualize midterm grades for your students.
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Information Technology Services is happy to share its September Tech news article which includes the September training schedule; there is a lot of great information coming up in the last part of this month!
Additionally, ITS will offer two special trainings in October in collaboration with the Dean of Students Office.
October 8, 11 AM - 12 PM (virtual): Using Canvas and CARE to Support Students Experiencing Distress
This training is scheduled intentionally after midterm grades are due, in anticipation that through the midterm grade process faculty may identify students of concern or that faculty may hear from students with extenuating circumstances. This session will give instructors actionable steps to connect students with care and manage academic flexibilities in Canvas.
October 27, 12 - 1 PM (EUC Azalea): Lunch and Learn: Addressing and Reducing Grading Bias
This session is intended to share information about DOS resources, including the bias reporting form and the Erase Hate campaign. Additionally, we will highlight and demonstrate features within Canvas that reduce the risk of bias in grading, such as how to turn on anonymized and randomized grading, and how to build a rubric in Canvas and grade with rubrics in Speed Grader.
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Free Subscription to The Teaching Professor from Magna Publications |
Magna Publications has a weekly newsletter with teaching tips, strategies, and the latest best practices of teaching offering approaches on a wide range of teaching topics, such as:
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- Planning and designing courses
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Promoting academic integrity
- Increasing student engagement
- Responding to course evaluations and feedback
- Developing effective activities and assignments
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| Access to Quick Teaching Workshops with Magna Publications |
Magna Publications offers a series of 20-minute and 40-minute workshops on teaching and learning topics from national experts in teaching and learning.
The UTLC has secured campus access to over 20 trainings on topics such as teaching effectiveness, generative AI, student engagement, course design, and much more.
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Teaching Evaluation Pilot |
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UNCG is pleased to be administering a pilot of a new teaching evaluation system, Anthology Evaluate. Much of our feedback during the 2024/25 academic year was favorable, with users finding the system easy to use and the reporting to be accessible.
Anthology uses research validated common questions; units can also add custom questions. The system mobile friendly and can be used in the classroom, which raised response rates for instructors who opted to do so this past year. Instructors and their heads have access to reporting one to two days after the close of the administration and can access their reports anytime they like online.
We are recruiting more pilot participants for this academic year! If you are interested in participating in the Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 Cohorts, please click the button below to fill out the interest form. If you want to participate for Fall 2025, please sign up by September 19.
If you have questions, please email the UTLC at utlc@uncg.edu.
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Faculty Engagement & Development Opportunities |
Check out these upcoming opportunities from the UTLC and other partners on campus.
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- Self-Paced Training Options| Online, research-based workshops cover a range of essential topics.
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UNCG Libraries Webinars | Research and Application Webinar Series (Spring 2024 recordings) | Zotero Webinar Series (recordings)
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New to Teaching | Access this Canvas site to learn about how students learn, preparing for class, grading, office hours, engagement, active learning, and more.
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Safe and Trans Zone Training on Canvas | Enroll in this self-paced online course to complete Safe Zone 1.0, 2.0, and Trans Zone if you cannot attend an in-person workshop.
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Web Accessibility 101 | This asynchronous, self-paced course focuses on the fundamentals of making online content accessible.
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