AI Resistant Assignments

There may be some assignments in your course where you wish to discourage the use of generative AI (GenAI). Below are some strategies to create AI resistant learning experiences.

• Learn how GenAI would respond to your class assignments: Try out ChatGPT and other tools yourself to understand its capabilities and limitations.
• Make assignments more authentic and robust: Authentic assessments asks students to complete complex tasks similar to those they would in a non-academic setting.
• Add non-traditional ways of assessing learning (podcasts, oral exams, projects): Consider other ways of letting students demonstrate the knowledge they’ve learned in their course beyond the traditional college essay.
• Apply open education practices that involve collaborating with students to create and curate content: Engage students in open education and development of Open Educational Resources (OER) that are student-driven and reflective of the sharing of ideas and material common in various spaces and communities, especially those committed to teaching and helping other instructors!
• Use local or class-based prompts: One limitation of AI tools is that they do not know what happens in your class. Consider designing prompts related specifically to your course. For example, one could ask students to expand upon a particular class discussion or answer questions requiring knowledge from a lecture slide.
• Leverage other educational technologies: Instead of using open-ended questions in Canvas, try social annotation tools that require students to engage with a text or video along with their classmates. WashU supports Hypothesis for social annotation of texts and Annoto for collaborative commenting on videos.