Online Campus AI Information

Welcome to our AI Information site!

The Online Campus recognizes that AI is a new technology that is rapidly changing the higher education landscape.  We will be updating this website with helpful information regarding AI tools in teaching and learning and further resources.

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Generative AI Overview

Generative AI is artificial intelligence that can create new content such as text, images, code, audio and video. It is able to create content based on large sets of data with intuitive processing algorithms. “These models are trained on large text datasets to learn to predict the next word in a sentence and, from that, generate coherent and compelling human-like output in response to a question or statement” (UNESCO, 2023).

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Faculty Learning Community Presentation on AI Tech in Teaching and Learning

Listen to CSUEB Faculty discuss using AI in their classrooms, course development, accessibility and beliefs around AI.

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Systemwide Generative AI Resources from California State University

Check out webinars, resources, publications and other AI resources from the CSU.
https://genai.calstate.edu/

 

What do we have? 

Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant that is designed to enhance productivity, creativity and streamline tasks. It provides access to advanced generative AI with text, voice, and image capabilities and it is available to CSUEB faculty, staff, and students. 

To get started with Copilot, use your CSUEB official or horizon email to login to Microsoft Copilot. Review the step-by-step article on How to Access Miscrosoft Copilot.

Resources:

We encourage instructors to include a statement in their course syllabus regarding the use and/or misuse of AI or specially generative AI technology in their course. A statement ensures that your expectations for appropriate interaction with generative AI tools are articulated clearly to students.

 Below are examples of sample language you may adopt for your own course. Please modify or create your own based on the needs of your course:

No Generative AI use Policy

For this course, all assignments, activities and homework must be completed by the student. The use of generative AI, including ChatGPT, is expressly prohibited. Use of these tools will be considered a violation of the CSUEB Academic Dishonesty Policy and may be subject to disciplinary action. 

Use of Generative AI is allowed in specific course instances

For this course, there may be assignments that require or encourage the use of generative AI tools. I will explicitly let you know if any of those tools are allowed on assignment(s). Use of AI used in any other context in this course will be considered a violation of the CSUEB Academic Dishonesty Policy and may be subject to disciplinary action. 

Use of Generative AI is generally allowed in the course

Use of generative AI is generally welcomed in this course with appropriate citations. AI tools can be used to help brainstorm, edit, or even revise written assignments. Assignments submitted without any citation of an AI tool will be considered your own original work. Assignments submitted that utilized AI tools should be appropriately referenced, otherwise it may be considered a violation of the CSUEB Academic Dishonesty Policy and may be subject to disciplinary action. 

Resource on Academic Integrity and Citations: 

*Above Syllabus Suggested Statements Adapted from- Arizona State University

 

Additional Resources

When navigating online teaching and learning with AI, some general strategies can be utilized to enhance the educational experience. Faculty can leverage AI tools to automate routine and complex tasks allowing them to focus more on interactive and personalized student engagement. For example, Alchemy offers a collection of ChatGPT prompts that are designed to assist in creating course descriptions, learning outcomes, feedback, and more that are tailored to elevate teaching strategies and enhance the learning experience for students and faculty. Faculty can use AI tools to create accessible content such as generate description and alternative text for images, convert reading materials and handouts into multiple accessible formats.

Faculty should emphasize the importance of digital literacy to students, providing guidance on how to critically evaluate AI-generated information and understanding the ethical implications and potential limitations of AI. Policies and expectations should be set clear with emphasis on maintaining CSUEB’s academic integrity. See syllabus suggested statements section for examples.

Rather than designing assignments and assessments completely proof of AI or solely depending on AI detectors, faculty should design tasks that encourage students to demonstrate their learning and critical thinking. Assignments closely aligned with course specific content and reflect on students’ personal learning are less likely to be completed successfully by AI tools.

Suggested strategies for AI-resistant assessment include:

  • Develop specific prompts that are directly tied to course materials.
  • Scaffold and chunk assignments and projects to multiple stages.
  • Create assignments that allow multimodal submissions. This could also allow students to demonstrate their knowledge beyond text. The “Guide to Alternative Assessments 2.0” PDF by Eliana Elkhoury is particularly helpful to find alternative assessments when thinking of multimodality.
  • Adding reflection to assignments allows students to explain their process and show their thinking.
  • Creating meaningful and detailed rubrics provide clear expectations and evaluation criteria for students to focus on specific learning objectives and help faculty assess authentic student work. It promotes deeper engagement with the material, encouraging students to think critically and demonstrate authentic learning.

This list is for informational purposes only. If you are interested in using these tools for a class, please make sure to submit the tool for an ICT review. 

ClassPoint AI is an innovative AI tool that has been designed specifically for teachers to generate questions out of any PowerPoint slide. ClassPoint AI has the ability to generate a question out of just one word on a slide.

ChatGPT A generative AI tool that has received recent attention is ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses natural language processing to create conversational dialogue. It can respond to questions with written text. In higher education, this has generated some concerns that students might use the tool to help with homework and assignments. It can also be used to help with creating learning materials. Instructors can use this tool to get course outlines, assignment ideas and even rubrics. ChatGPT has been found to provide inaccurate answers, so information provided should always be reviewed for accuracy. 

Quizbot AI is an advanced artificial intelligence question generator. It can generate multiple versions of a test with different difficulty levels. 

Teachermatic AI platform that helps educators prepare lesson materials including lesson plans, quiz questions, activities and rubrics. 

Wolfram Alpha is an AI tool for education that provides answers and step-by-step solutions to complex concepts. This tool supports students through any subject problem using familiar, replicable methods. This can be used for assessment prep, homework assistance, and more. This tool is currently available at Cal State East Bay. See the library’s website for how to access and use.

Zoom AI Companion is automatically be available to all faculty and staff who log in to Zoom with their CSUEB accounts. Students will not have it enabled by default, but can enable the feature from the Zoom website, https://csueb.zoom.us/. At a meeting host’s discretion, Zoom will transcribe the meeting and present a searchable report and summary to the meeting participants. Only meeting hosts can enable AI functionality in Zoom meetings; participants can only request that a host activate AI functionality. More information can be found on Zoom’s AI feature page. 

 

Video Editing/AI Avatars

Synthesia turns your text into videos in minutes. Get natural sounding AI voices in 120+ languages. Make your videos more engaging with 140+ AI Avatars. Edit as simply as a slide-deck, no experience required.

Hourone AI is an All-In-One AI-Video Platform to produce high-quality videos, AI virtual presenter & Voice, Built-in script assistant powered by ChatGPT. 

VEED.IO can help you put together a piece of content fast—complete with videos, music, voiceovers, captions, animations, and even a digital person—with or without your own footage.

Descript transcirbes your recordings so you can edit them like a doc. Then you can arrange visuals like you would on a slide. It transforms audio recordings into studio quality with a single click. Filler word removal, Instantly purge recordings of "um" and "uh" and "you know" and all those repeat words. Create a shockingly realistic clone of your voice, then record new words by simply typing them in. Descript includes a full gallery of templates to quickly make your videos shine.

https://invideo.io/ai/

https://www.kapwing.com/ai


Slides/Deck Design

Beautiful AI is presentation maker with design AI. Create professional, stunning presentations in minutes. Beautiful.ai has hundreds of smart slides built with AI-assisted design, so you can present ideas meaningfully, easily, and without putting other work on hold.

SlidesGo an AI Presentation Maker! With a few clicks, you’ll have wonderful slideshows that suit your own needs.

Simplified AI Presentation Maker will help you get unstuck in the design phase by creating outstanding AI-generated presentations complete with images and copy, in a matter of seconds. Step into the future of presentations with the ease of our AI Powerpoint generator.

 

Voice Over

Murf AI Go from text to speech with a versatile AI voice generator. AI enabled, real people's voices. Make studio-quality voice overs in minutes. Use Murf’s lifelike AI voices for podcasts, videos, and all your professional presentations.

Speechify creates natural Voiceovers for all your content. Beautiful AI Voiceovers are just a few clicks away. Natural Human Voices.

 

Generative AI Image Creation

Adobe Firefly Use generative AI and simple text prompts to create the highest-quality output — beautiful images, text effects, and fresh color palettes. Make all-new content from reference images and explore more possibilities, more quickly.

Image Insights by CourseArc extracts text from images and generates comprehensive descriptions that capture the visual elements and also emotions, settings, and implied messages. Users need to have a ChatGPT account to use Image Insights. Note: users with a standard ChatGPT account will run into limitations on how many times they can use Image Insights per day. Learn more about CourseArc's new AI tools on their website.

This list is for informational purposes only. If you are interested in using these tools for a class, please make sure to submit the tool for an ICT review. 

Art and Design

Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Photography, Animation, and related majors

  • Encourage students to use AI tools for early-stage drafts and idea exploration. For example, after students submit a design project, they can use AI tools to generate alternate versions or explore style transformations to enhance their creative process.
  • Students can use AI-powered platforms to explore digital archives, compare artistic styles, or analyze famous works in Art History courses. For example, a student might use AI to examine how Renaissance paintings influenced modern design or to explore lesser-known artists using data-driven insights.
  • Design assignments that involve AI-generated art as a starting point for creative exploration. For example, students can generate abstract forms using AI and then refine or reinterpret the results through traditional media like painting or sculpture.

Suggested AI Tools: 

  • Artbreeder is an innovative online platform that leverages AI to help users create and modify images. Users can create characters, artworks and more by mixing images and text together. Artbreeder also encourages collaborative creation, allowing users to build upon each other’s work.
  • Google Arts & Culture and Artivive can analyze and contextualize artworks through AI, offering insights into their historical significance, composition, and cultural influences.
  • Magenta Studio (for music and visual arts) is a collection of music plugins developed by the Magenta team at Google. It promotes exploring generative art and can help students create new forms of artistic expression and ideas.

Business and Economics

  • Engage students in discussions about the ethical implications of AI in business, such as the use of AI for consumer data analysis, automation, and decision-making. Faculty can assign case studies where students explore ethical issues surrounding AI in business, such as the use of AI in hiring practices, data privacy concerns, or AI-driven investment strategies. Students can also use AI tools to simulate different outcomes based on ethical decision-making frameworks.
  • Encourage students to explore how AI is transforming business models across industries, from AI-driven marketing automation to supply chain optimization. Faculty can assign projects that challenge students to develop AI-powered solutions to common business problems, such as optimizing a marketing campaign, improving supply chain efficiency, or creating AI-based customer service strategies.

Humanities 

  • Utilize AI tools for text analysis and digital humanities projects to assist students in examining large volumes of text or historical data for research. Instructors can leverage AI to develop interactive narratives or virtual historical reenactments that immerse students in historical or literary settings. 
  • Structured peer feedback sessions can be implemented where students use AI tools to assist in evaluating their peers’ essays or projects, focusing on argumentation and writing quality.

Suggested AI Tools: 

  • Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that provides evidence-based answers from scientific research. It uses AI to extract key findings from peer-reviewed sources and present them in a distilled and easily digestible format.
  • Research Rabbit simplifies the literature search and management for researchers. It offers personalized recommendations, interactive visualizations, and other collaboration options.
  • Inciteful is an open-source research tool that uses citations to help users explore and discover relevant academic literature. Inciteful include literature connector tool for interdisciplinary studies and integration with Zotero. 

Citation:

Pinzolits, R. (2023). AI in academia: An overview of selected tools and their areas of application. MAP Education and Humanities, 4, 37–50. https://doi.org/10.53880/2744-2373.2023.4.37

Social Sciences 

Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Criminal Justice, and related majors

  • Organize a debate on the ethical implications of AI in social sciences. Faculty can create a simulation where students use AI to model the impact of different social policies to analyze outcomes and make data-driven decisions.
  • Faculty may utilize AI-generated feedback to improve students’ argumentative writing in social science papers and case studies while still providing your own personalized, in-depth feedback on key theoretical points.
  • Encourage students to use AI to explore existing research on social topics (e.g., crime rates, social inequality, political behavior) and critically engage with the AI-generated connections between papers.
  • Assign essays or debates that explore topics such as how AI and machine learning influence public policy, social inequality, or criminal justice, encouraging students to think critically about both the opportunities and dangers of AI.
  • Use AI-driven case studies in Criminal Justice or Public Affairs to examine real-world scenarios, such as predictive policing or AI’s role in public administration.

Suggested AI Tools: 

  • Semantic Scholar or Connected Papers are AI academic search engines that can assist in conducting more efficient literature reviews. These tools can find relevant research articles and connect them based on citations and related topics.
  • ChatGPT to generate case study simulations or role-playing activities, prompting students to analyze the ethical considerations of AI applications in law enforcement, political campaigns, or public health systems.
  • Mendeley suggests relevant research articles and streamline teamwork in literature reviews where students can collaborate on research.
  • Polis is an AI driven platform for political simulations where students can engage in role-playing exercises that explore government decision-making, public administration, or international relations. Faculty can design a simulation where students assume roles in a political or policy-making scenario using AI to predict outcomes based on decisions they make in real time.

STEM

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and related majors

  • Faculty may assign projects where students analyze large datasets using AI-based tools to uncover insights, such as exploring climate data in Earth sciences or genetic data in Biology.
  • Design assignments where students use AI-powered simulations to solve real-world problems, such as predicting chemical reactions, simulating physics experiments, or modeling engineering systems.
  • Allow students to use AI-assisted coding tools in assignments but require them to explain their coding choices and demonstrate understanding of the algorithms or principles behind the AI-generated solutions.
  • Incorporate virtual labs powered by AI into your coursework, allowing students to conduct experiments in subjects like biochemistry or materials science, particularly when in-person lab access is limited.
  • Assign lab experiments where students use AI to predict and model outcomes before conducting physical experiments, fostering critical thinking and gaining an understanding of theoretical concepts in courses like mechanical engineering or organic chemistry.

Suggested AI Tools: 

  • Wolfram Alpha is an AI tool for education that provides answers and step-by-step solutions to complex concepts. This tool supports students through any subject problem using familiar, replicable methods. This can be used for assessment prep, homework assistance, and more. This tool is currently available at Cal State East Bay. See the library’s website for how to access and use.
  • Jupyter Notebooks is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. It’s widely used by data scientists, researchers, and educators for interactive computing and data analysis.
  • GeoGebra (for mathematics) uses AI to model complex systems and run simulations, allowing students to explore scenarios that would be difficult or impossible to create in real life.
  • PhET Interactive Simulations use AI to provide virtual lab experiences for students in biology, chemistry, and physics. This allows students to perform experiments in a virtual environment that replicates real-world lab conditions.
  • Zybooks and CodeOcean allow students to simulate and visualize the outcomes of STEM experiments in real-time. In engineering, AI can be used to simulate system behaviors or optimize design choices.