Chats for university educators

Faculty from a dozen disciplines shared chats they use for teaching and research. Tap a chat to get started.

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Refine your syllabus

Please analyze this syllabus carefully, taking on the perspective of an experienced educator. Your analysis should cover several specific areas of consideration. For each section, please be thorough but concise, focusing on actionable feedback. Please cover: • First Impressions & Questions • Content Gaps Analysis • Suggested Additional Sections • Visual Enhancement Opportunities • General Improvement Ideas

Tailor a problem set to your student’s interests

Here’s a set of practice problems on linear equations. Keep the core math problems and number values the same, but rewrite them for a student interested in skateboarding, anime and basketball.

Find new resources

I am teaching a course titled “Thinking Analytically in an Uncertain World” for students who are doing a master’s in public policy. I would like to open the course with the example of the decision that President Kennedy and his administration made during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Recommend resources I should read or watch to prepare.

Draft a letter of recommendation

I need to write a letter of recommendation for my research assistant. Here are my thoughts about her strengths and accomplishments. Use the structure, style, and voice of my past letters of recommendation to write a first draft.

Write replies to an email

Act as my executive communications assistant. Please write a professional, compassionate, and warm response to the following email. I want to maintain strong relationships, even when I’m setting a boundary, asking for more time, or saying no. Help me sound emotionally intelligent, gracious, and human. When appropriate, affirm their message, acknowledge effort or feelings, and provide helpful next steps or support. Please keep it short, sincere, and solution-oriented. Close the message with warmth, encouragement, or gratitude.

Make your examples more relevant

This is a problem set question that I would like to update with a new, more relevant example than teleworking during the pandemic. Find a set of data that is about a related topic but more interesting and relevant to 2025, and find a table that I can use instead of this one. Find three options for me to choose from. Provide links to the relevant sources and provide your output in the same format as the attached screenshot.

Adjust your schedule for a new semester

Here is the schedule from last spring. This semester, the course begins on Monday, January 12, 2026. Please adjust the dates so that they represent this semester's schedule, ending May 1, 2026, adjusting for weekend breaks.

Generate a quiz based on your lecture

Generate 10 multiple choice questions I can use as a quiz during this lecture to help my students test their understanding of the material. For each question, indicate the correct answer with an explanation.

Brainstorm hands-on activities

Generate 5 unconventional, surprising, creative activities for a graduate-level journalism class on presentation skills. Activities should help students: • Practice 30-sec venture pitches • Master calming breathing techniques • Apply our presentation principles (eye contact, charisma, gentle hands, planted feet, simple slides, clear start/end) Focus on surprising approaches that reinforce these principles while building students' confidence. The class is 60 minutes.

Make images for your slides

I have a framework that I like to share with my entrepreneurship and tech innovation students about the impact of pivots that draws an analogy to the planets in our solar system. See my slides. Help me express all of this in an image I can show my students.

Draft a grant proposal

I’m applying for this grant proposal. Help me figure out how to pitch my research project on translating and collecting the works of Adah Isaacs Menken.

AI-proof your assignments

I want to redesign assignments that are easily completed by AI. Can you analyze this assignment and suggest a creative alternative that still assesses the same skills — but makes AI a support tool, not the whole solution?

Generate makeup exams

Drawing from the study guide, please create a makeup exam question in the same style as these two questions. Do not touch on any of the topics mentioned.

Draft an annual assessment report

Assume the role of a university administrator. We are going to write an annual program assessment report. I will provide the learning outcomes being assessed, feedback scores, and a sample report to guide your drafting.

Create a lecture outline from a podcast

You are an expert lecturer and skilled communicator who specializes in transforming conversational material into clear, engaging, and structured educational content. Your role is to analyze a podcast script, extract its key themes, organize the main arguments logically rather than simply presenting them in chronological order, and present them as a concise lecture that is easy to follow, informative, and impactful. The final product should be suitable for delivery as a 20-minute lecture for a university-level advertising class. Begin by producing a clear outline that highlights the main sections and subpoints of the lecture.

Process your course feedback

Analyze these course evaluations I received and take apart the feedback so that I can make it actionable. I'm interested in their overall trends and the things that point to improvements I can make. Rank these improvements by importance and explain why.

Improve your lectures

Help me identify what I could have done better in this lecture for next time. I am teaching an introductory software engineering course and the lecture is on the impact of software engineering on the industry. Please provide a list of concrete improvements I could make.

Draft follow-up emails

Based on the tone and structure of my example email, please help me draft a follow-up email for my graduate-level entrepreneurial journalism course that reinforces key takeaways and provides clear next steps.

Conduct a lit review

Conduct a comprehensive literature review on consumer-AI relationships that I can use in my class notes for an upcoming lecture. Give me a report from marketing and consumer research journals, drawing exclusively from articles published in the Financial Times Top 50 (FT50) academic journals. Ensure that all references are accurately cited. Your analysis should encompass: - Theoretical Frameworks - Conceptual Models - Scholarly Debates - Research Gaps - Methodological Approaches

Summarize a report

I'm giving a presentation to engineering faculty today. Give me a few quick bullets from this report that I could use to encourage the use of gen AI to map to ABET guidelines.

Design a more interactive lesson

You are a senior instructional design expert. Help me design a short online learning module on project management that fosters active learning and deeper understanding. For this part of the lesson: - Include 2–4 Socratic questions that spark critical thinking and reflection - Suggest 1–2 low-overhead online activities (polls, chats, breakout discussions, role-plays) suitable for a virtual classroom - Use a scenario or real-world example related to ground the learning. Make your answer in an easy-to-follow list or outline format.

Extract and compile grades faster

I have a coding task that I would like your help with. I want to go through every submission of this Canvas Speedgrader interface and copy the grade breakdown. Here is a screenshot of the interface - grades are in the box on the middle right. I want a script to save each submission's written feedback, and then click the right arrow button to go to the next submission, and do this over and over, eventually getting a CSV of grade breakdowns for each submission. Create a script to do this that I can run in the Chrome console. Let me know what you need to write it effectively. Assume I know nothing about coding. Walk me through how to find whatever you need or what to copy.