Prompt Engineering

Search: Seminal Scholars, Studies, and Other Materials

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Have students report what the AI generates as foundational scholars, articles, or books within a given field or topic. Key Features of This Assignment Identification of Key …

Search: Explanations for Wrong Answers

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Direct students to look up answers they got wrong on an assignment or assessment. Key Features of This Assignment Self-Guided Error Analysis The assignment empowers students to …

Search: Narrowing Search Results

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Teach students how to purposefully narrow the responses ChatGPT generates. Key Features of This Assignment …

Prompt Engineering: New Chat

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Create an assignment where students see the value in restarting chat. Key Features of This …

Prompt Engineering: Length

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Ask students to alter the prompt to provide the same information in different lengths. Key …

Prompt Engineering: Sophistication

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Encourage students to include in their prompts how sophisticated of an answer they want. Key …

Prompt Engineering: Specified Style

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Ask students to exercise their creativity by asking ChatGPT for explanations or summaries delivered “in …

Prompt Engineering: Tone

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Make an assignment for students to obtain ChatGPT results that match a certain tone. Key …

Prompt Engineering: Context and Specific Requests

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Teach students via “graduated” prompts how to be specific and detailed to maximize ChatGPT output. …

Prompt Engineering: Rephrase Prompts

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Require students to ask ChatGPT a detailed question in more than one way to refine …

Prompt Engineering: Regenerate a Response

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Ask students to generate multiple responses from a single prompt. Key Features of This Assignment …

Prompt Engineering: Conversation

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Create an assignment that forces students to engage ChatGPT in a conversation. Key Features of …

Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs

This assignment, by Kyle Booten, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment suggests that “prompt engineering”—iteratively tinkering with and refining the set of instructions that guides the output of an LLM—is a worthwhile writing activity that can encourage students to be metacognitive about the “moves” that …

cmpttnl cnstrnt: An Exercise in Constraint and Prompt Engineering

This assignment, by Douglas Luman, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: As new context-aware generative models challenge the human relationship to language, students benefit from first-hand observation of these models’ successes and limitations. Using these models often requires using “prompts” (natural language-based directions) to guide their output. …

Testing ChatGPT Response Variety to Introduce Natural Language Processing

This assignment, by Elisa Beshero-Bondar, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This sequence of assignments progressively introduces students to natural language processing (NLP) through repeated prompt experiments with ChatGPT. Students are beginners learning Python and NLP. Accessing ChatGPT and writing prompt experiments successfully provided the basis for …

The Grand Exhibition of Prompts

This assignment, by Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: The Grand Exhibition of Prompts, a netprov In this collaborative creative writing game on a threaded discussion platform students experiment with AI image-making programs, but concentrate on the expressive, literary power of …

Analysis of Iterations of Responses to Human Prompts: ChatGPT and Automated Writing

This assignment, by Huiling Ding, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Generative AI and large language models such as GPT-3.5 introduce new tools and challenges to writing classrooms. This assignment aims to both introduce students to these new tools and to help them cultivate …