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ChatGPT or Copilot?

Which generative AI tool? ChatGPT or Copilot?

Posted onOctober 31, 2024October 29, 2024

Recently I have been considering switching from ChatGPT to Copilot. For one simple reason, I do not know where my ChatGPT data really goes. My thinking on this Most Universities subscribe to Microsoft packages, and in some instances this includes Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, desktop, digital literacy, gapfill, technical proficiency, Windows

A student using AI to learn

Students and AI to support learning

Posted onOctober 30, 2024October 23, 2024

Can you use AI to support learning in academic studies? Why not. It is about how you use it. AI is a dirty word at times when it comes to students using it, but there are so many ways in Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital StudentTagsAI, digital literacy, higher education, learning, research, Students

Using AI to build a gapfill quiz question

Gapfill quiz questions in Moodle using AI

Posted onOctober 24, 2024October 21, 2024

If you have not already seen, you can use Generative AI, in this instance ChatGPT, to build MCQs for quizzes in Moodle. But, you can also build Gapfill questions using prompts and rules very much in the same way. We Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, gapfill, Moodle, quiz, technical proficiency, VLE

Using AI to build an MCQ quiz

AI Cheat sheet for MCQs in Moodle

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 20242 Comments

To create a set of MCQs quickly, I tend to use ChatGPT. By setting the rules for the output based on what Moodle is expecting, I can do this fairly quickly. The output still needs you to copy accross the Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, technical proficiency, VLE

Teaching the AI tool what I want it to do.

Teaching the AI models for Academic Work

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 20241 Comment

Sometimes I forget that AI can learn from my inputs as well as from inputs from data that is skimmed from the vast sea of information on the internet (don’t forget, only 5% of the internet is visible to you Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, Moodle, technical proficiency, VLE

AI tool building a quiz

Ethics of Using Generative AI in Academia

Posted onOctober 21, 2024October 21, 2024

There are two things to think about when you start approaching the use of generative AI for creation of anything to do with academia: Let’s start with the first bit. Is it ethical? Yes, you can use AI to support Continue Reading

CategoriesThe Digital AcademicTagsAI, digital literacy, Moodle, technical proficiency, VLE

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