Overview

The SPRING 2023 Technology Enhanced Learning Centre (TELC) Newsletter is out! 

In light of the recent explosion of interest in AI writers (e.g. ChatGPT) and their possible effect on education, TELC aims to be focusing more research on these powerful and quickly-improving technologies. As such, this newsletter is divided into two thematic areas: (1) AI writer-related articles and (2) other interesting/useful learning-technology information.

This newsletter therefore has information on AI detectors, how to tweak your assignments to make them harder for students to use AI-writers, group assignments to discourage cheating with ChatGPT, AI-policy ideas, other interesting AI nuggets. Additionally, in this new AI-technology epoch, TELC firmly believes the optimal road forward should be about discovering greater success using a ‘human with AI’ approach. Furthermore, as this area is changing so quickly, we also encourage faculty and staff to share their own observations related to generative AI in future newsletters.

Click here to view previous TELC newsletters. https://www.unic.ac.cy/telblog/newsletters/ 

TELC offers one-to-one, personalised support on a wide range of technologies to faculty and staff.  Training – TELC Portal (unic.ac.cy) 

We therefore wish you good reading!

Artificial Intelligence

Worried About ChatGPT Or Other AI Output Tools? These AI Detectors May Be Able To Help

You can use the following tools to detect whether text has been created by AI. As this new tech advances, these types of detectors will become crucial for all people especially educators.

A Sneak Peek At Turnitin’s Ability To Detect ChatGPT And AI Writing

TELC aims to be testing the effectiveness of this to-be-launched Turnitin AI detectorto verify Turnitin’s claims about it. Moreover, TELC in general tests the effectiveness of other AI detectors because AI writers are becoming increasing sophisticated with regard to fooling AI detectors.

Can Group Assignments Be A Good Idea To Discourage Cheating With ChatGPT?

I asked ChatGPT this question and liked its answer! And here’s how you do group assignments in Moodle with group messaging [Moodle: Group Assignments With Group Messaging]! 

Make Your Assignments Harder For AI Writers: Add Prompts

Because replacing written assessments with, for instance, oral exams may not always be possible, and/or getting students to include their rough notes with the final submission increases the marking workload significantly. 

Thoughts On Academic Integrity and AI Technology 

TELC aims to disseminate interesting approaches to providing relevant information and strategies for UNIC lecturers. 

AI Image Generators: DALL-E & StableDiffusion

Use these two forefront runners to create realistic images and art from descriptions in natural language.

The Current Version Of ChatGPT Sometimes Creates Fake References!

Written by Dr Katarzyna Alexander. A look at what ChatGPT had to say about Greek-Cypriot phonetics and phonology

Filechat & ChatPDF

Tools to explore documents using artificial intelligence. You can upload a PDF and start asking questions to a personalized chatbot.

Asking ChatGPT To Put Perplexity And Burstiness In An Essay Appears To Fool AI Detectors

Funny how the solution to fool detectors is to tell the AI to write less like an AI.

We Asked ChatGPT How do you cite ChatGPT?  

Teachers should discuss academic integrity with their students, explaining why it is important to give credit to sources and avoiding plagiarism. This can help students understand the importance of citing sources and discourage them from relying on language models without proper attribution 

100 Prompts For Teachers To Use With ChatGPT

Here are some prompts you might want to ask ChatGPT to help you with teaching

How To Detect AI Generated text

Use this interactive tool to see what to look out for when trying to determine if text is from human or an AI.

Writing Fiction With AI (ChatGPT) & Analysing It As a Writer

The stories, styles and techniques it comes up with are bland and lifeless. As as a writer’s tool, it lacks usefulness.

The Best AI Chatbots: ChatGPT & Other Interesting Alternatives To Try In 2023

Your workload can be reduced by using AI chatbots and writers to create emails, articles, and even arithmetic problems. Based on user input, they employ artificial intelligence to produce text or respond to questions. One well-known example is ChatGPT, but there are other standout chatbots as well.

Talk Face to Face With An AI – Alice

It is worth asking: Will people start chatting with handsome AI entities more than they do with real people? Take this tool for a test and judge for yourself.

General Technology Enhanced Learning Articles

Engageli Evolves to 3.0 & the UNic MBA(DL)

The new update adds a plethora of new features, as per Engageli’s constant dedication to actively supporting their customers. (Credit to Sasha Mathrani for the great original post)

Recording Directly In Stream (On Sharepoint) Compared to Camtasia

The Microsoft Stream platform allows you to record directly from within it, with the click of a button. But when should you use this and when should you use Camtasia’s more advanced toolkit instead?

Using Doodly in PPT– TELC Supports Faculty in the Creation of Animated Graphics in PPT using Doodly

Doodly allows people of any skill level to easily animate on whiteboards and make their content look better and artistic.

Turnitin Has Stated We Need To Move To The Turnitin Assignment Tool

TELC will help coordinate the migration from the Moodle Assignment Tool to the Turnitin Assignment Tool in 2023-2024.

The Journal of Teaching English With Technology (TEWT) “Boldly Goes….” 

TEWT Now: (1) Fast-Tracks AI And Metaverse-Related Research, (2) Uses Scholastica, (3) Has published Issue 1 2023 with DOIs! 

IMPORTANT: Moodle Quiz (Essay Question) Grades Sometimes Resetting To Zero

Clicking the Similarity () or Grademark() buttons sometimes reset the question grade to zero.

Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings

This assistant still has a long way to go until it works properly in a way that can actually be deployed without creating more work for you.

E-Learning Guide: Moodle Wiki

This guide is to help any newcommers with using the Moodle Wiki Tool.

New Microsoft Forms Features!

Microsoft continues to add features to Forms!

Dr Chris Alexander
Technology Enhanced
Learning Centre (HEAD)

Mr Vladislav Kolev
Multimedia Specialist & Learning Technologist (TELC)

Overview

The SPRING 2023 Technology Enhanced Learning Centre (TELC) Newsletter is out! 

In light of the recent explosion of interest in AI writers (e.g. ChatGPT) and their possible effect on education, TELC aims to be focusing more research on these powerful and quickly-improving technologies. As such, this newsletter is divided into two thematic areas: (1) AI writer-related articles and (2) other interesting/useful learning-technology information.

This newsletter therefore has information on AI detectors, how to tweak your assignments to make them harder for students to use AI-writers, group assignments to discourage cheating with ChatGPT, AI-policy ideas, other interesting AI nuggets. Additionally, in this new AI-technology epoch, TELC firmly believes the optimal road forward should be about discovering greater success using a ‘human with AI’ approach. Furthermore, as this area is changing so quickly, we also encourage faculty and staff to share their own observations related to generative AI in future newsletters.

Click here to view previous TELC newsletters. https://www.unic.ac.cy/telblog/newsletters/ 

TELC offers one-to-one, personalised support on a wide range of technologies to faculty and staff.  Training – TELC Portal (unic.ac.cy) 

We therefore wish you good reading!

Artificial Intelligence

Worried About ChatGPT Or Other AI Output Tools? These AI Detectors May Be Able To Help

You can use the following tools to detect whether text has been created by AI. As this new tech advances, these types of detectors will become crucial for all people especially educators.

A sneak peek at Turnitin’s ability to detect ChatGPT and AI writing

TELC aims to be testing the effectiveness of this to-be-launched Turnitin AI detectorto verify Turnitin’s claims about it. Moreover, TELC in general tests the effectiveness of other AI detectors because AI writers are becoming increasing sophisticated with regard to fooling AI detectors.

Can Group assignments be a good idea to discourage cheating with ChatGPT?

I asked ChatGPT this question and liked its answer! And here’s how you do group assignments in Moodle with group messaging [Moodle: Group Assignments With Group Messaging]! 

Make Your Assignments Harder For AI Writers: Add Specific Prompts And Personal Experience Prompts

Because replacing written assessments with, for instance, oral exams may not always be possible, and/or getting students to include their rough notes with the final submission increases the marking workload significantly. 

Thoughts On Academic Integrity and AI Technology 

TELC aims to disseminate interesting approaches to providing relevant information and strategies for UNIC lecturers. 

AI Image Generators: DALL-E & StableDiffusion

Use these two forefront runners to create realistic images and art from descriptions in natural language.

The current version of ChatGPT sometimes creates fake references!

Written by Dr Katarzyna Alexander. A look at what ChatGPT had to say about Greek-Cypriot phonetics and phonology

Filechat & ChatPDF

Tools to explore documents using artificial intelligence. You can upload a PDF and start asking questions to a personalized chatbot.

Asking ChatGPT To Put Perplexity And Burstiness In An Essay Appears To Fool AI Detectors

Funny how the solution to fool detectors is to tell the AI to write less like an AI.

We Asked ChatGPT How do you cite ChatGPT?  

Teachers should discuss academic integrity with their students, explaining why it is important to give credit to sources and avoiding plagiarism. This can help students understand the importance of citing sources and discourage them from relying on language models without proper attribution 

100 Prompts For Teachers To Use With ChatGPT

Here are some prompts you might want to ask ChatGPT to help you with teaching

How To Detect AI Generated text

Use this interactive tool to see what to look out for when trying to determine if text is from human or an AI.

Writing Fiction With AI (ChatGPT) & Analysing It As a Writer

The stories, styles and techniques it comes up with are bland and lifeless. As as a writer’s tool, it lacks usefulness.

The Best AI chatbots: ChatGPT & Other Interesting Alternatives To Try In 2023

Your workload can be reduced by using AI chatbots and writers to create emails, articles, and even arithmetic problems. Based on user input, they employ artificial intelligence to produce text or respond to questions. One well-known example is ChatGPT, but there are other standout chatbots as well.

Talk Face to Face With An AI – Alice

It is worth asking: Will people start chatting with handsome AI entities more than they do with real people? Take this tool for a test and judge for yourself.

General Technology Enhanced Learning Articles

Engageli Evolves to 3.0 & the UNic MBA(DL)

The new update adds a plethora of new features, as per Engageli’s constant dedication to actively supporting their customers. (Credit to Sasha Mathrani for the great original post)

Recording Directly In Stream (On Sharepoint) Compared to Camtasia

The Microsoft Stream platform allows you to record directly from within it, with the click of a button. But when should you use this and when should you use Camtasia’s more advanced toolkit instead?

Using Doodly In PPT– TELC Supports Faculty In The Creation of Animated Graphics in PPT using Doodly

Doodly allows people of any skill level to easily animate on whiteboards and make their content look better and artistic.

Turnitin Has Stated We Need To Move To The Turnitin Assignment Tool

TELC will help coordinate the migration from the Moodle Assignment Tool to the Turnitin Assignment Tool in 2023-2024.

The Journal of Teaching English With Technology (TEWT) “Boldly Goes….” 

TEWT Now: (1) Fast-Tracks AI And Metaverse-Related Research, (2) Uses Scholastica, (3) Has published Issue 1 2023 with DOIs! 

IMPORTANT: Moodle Quiz (Essay Question) Grades Sometimes Resetting To Zero

Clicking the Similarity () or Grademark() buttons sometimes reset the question grade to zero.

Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings

This assistant still has a long way to go until it works properly in a way that can actually be deployed without creating more work for you.

New Microsoft Forms Features!

Microsoft continues to add features to Forms!

E-Learning Guide: Moodle Wiki

This guide is to help any newcommers with using the Moodle Wiki Tool.

Dr Chris Alexander Technology Enhanced Learning Centre (HEAD)

Mr Vladislav Kolev Multimedia Specialist & Learning Technologist (TELC)

Overview

The SPRING 2023 Technology Enhanced Learning Centre (TELC) Newsletter is out! 

In light of the recent explosion of interest in AI writers (e.g. ChatGPT) and their possible effect on education, TELC aims to be focusing more research on these powerful and quickly-improving technologies. As such, this newsletter is divided into two thematic areas: (1) AI writer-related articles and (2) other interesting/useful learning-technology information.

This newsletter therefore has information on AI detectors, how to tweak your assignments to make them harder for students to use AI-writers, group assignments to discourage cheating with ChatGPT, AI-policy ideas, other interesting AI nuggets. Additionally, in this new AI-technology epoch, TELC firmly believes the optimal road forward should be about discovering greater success using a ‘human with AI’ approach. Furthermore, as this area is changing so quickly, we also encourage faculty and staff to share their own observations related to generative AI in future newsletters.

Click here to view previous TELC newsletters. https://www.unic.ac.cy/telblog/newsletters/ 

TELC offers one-to-one, personalised support on a wide range of technologies to faculty and staff.  Training – TELC Portal (unic.ac.cy) 

We therefore wish you good reading!

Artificial Intelligence

Worried About ChatGPT Or Other AI Output Tools? These AI Detectors May Be Able To Help

You can use the following tools to detect whether text has been created by AI. As this new tech advances, these types of detectors will become crucial for all people especially educators.

A sneak peek at Turnitin’s ability to detect ChatGPT and AI writing

TELC aims to be testing the effectiveness of this to-be-launched Turnitin AI detectorto verify Turnitin’s claims about it. Moreover, TELC in general tests the effectiveness of other AI detectors because AI writers are becoming increasing sophisticated with regard to fooling AI detectors.

Can Group assignments be a good idea to discourage cheating with ChatGPT?

I asked ChatGPT this question and liked its answer! And here’s how you do group assignments in Moodle with group messaging [Moodle: Group Assignments With Group Messaging]! 

Make Your Assignments Harder For AI Writers: Add Specific Prompts And Personal Experience Prompts

Because replacing written assessments with, for instance, oral exams may not always be possible, and/or getting students to include their rough notes with the final submission increases the marking workload significantly. 

Thoughts On Academic Integrity and AI Technology 

TELC aims to disseminate interesting approaches to providing relevant information and strategies for UNIC lecturers. 

AI Image Generators: DALL-E & StableDiffusion

Use these two forefront runners to create realistic images and art from descriptions in natural language.

The current version of ChatGPT sometimes creates fake references!

Written by Dr Katarzyna Alexander. A look at what ChatGPT had to say about Greek-Cypriot phonetics and phonology

Filechat.io & ChatPdf

Tools to explore documents using artificial intelligence. You can upload a PDF and start asking questions to a personalized chatbot.

Asking ChatGPT To Put Perplexity And Burstiness In An Essay Appears To Fool AI Detectors

Funny how the solution to fool detectors is to tell the AI to write less like an AI.

We asked ChatGPT How do you cite ChatGPT?  

Teachers should discuss academic integrity with their students, explaining why it is important to give credit to sources and avoiding plagiarism. This can help students understand the importance of citing sources and discourage them from relying on language models without proper attribution 

100 Prompts for Teachers To Use With ChatGPT

Here are some prompts you might want to ask ChatGPT to help you with teaching

How To Detect AI Generated text

Use this interactive tool to see what to look out for when trying to determine if text is from human or an AI.

Writing Fiction With AI (ChatGPT) & Analysing It As a Writer

The stories, styles and techniques it comes up with are bland and lifeless. As as a writer’s tool, it lacks usefulness.

The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT and other interesting alternatives to try in 2023

Your workload can be reduced by using AI chatbots and writers to create emails, articles, and even arithmetic problems. Based on user input, they employ artificial intelligence to produce text or respond to questions. One well-known example is ChatGPT, but there are other standout chatbots as well.

Talk Face to Face With an AI – Alice

It is worth asking: Will people start chatting with handsome AI entities more than they do with real people? Take this tool for a test and judge for yourself.

General Technology Enhanced Learning Articles

Engageli Evolves to 3.0 & the UNic MBA(DL)

The new update adds a plethora of new features, as per Engageli’s constant dedication to actively supporting their customers. (Credit to Sasha Mathrani for the great original post)

Recording Directly In Stream (On Sharepoint) Compared to Camtasia

The Microsoft Stream platform allows you to record directly from within it, with the click of a button. But when should you use this and when should you use Camtasia’s more advanced toolkit instead?

Using Doodly in PPT– TELC Supports Faculty in the Creation of Animated Graphics in PPT using Doodly

Doodly allows people of any skill level to easily animate on whiteboards and make their content look better and artistic.

Turnitin Has Stated We Need To Move To The Turnitin Assignment Tool

TELC will help coordinate the migration from the Moodle Assignment Tool to the Turnitin Assignment Tool in 2023-2024.

The Journal of Teaching English With Technology (TEWT) “Boldly Goes….” 

TEWT Now: (1) Fast-Tracks AI And Metaverse-Related Research, (2) Uses Scholastica, (3) Has published Issue 1 2023 with DOIs! 

IMPORTANT: Moodle Quiz (Essay Question) Grades Sometimes Resetting To Zero

Clicking the Similarity () or Grademark() buttons sometimes reset the question grade to zero.

Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings

This assistant still has a long way to go until it works properly in a way that can actually be deployed without creating more work for you.

E-Learning Guide: Moodle Wiki

This guide is to help any newcommers with using the Moodle Wiki Tool.

New Microsoft Forms Features!

Microsoft continues to add features to Forms!

Dr Chris Alexander
Technology Enhanced
Learning Centre (HEAD)

Mr Vladislav Kolev
Multimedia Specialist & Learning Technologist (TELC)