Hear from our speaker on how he has developed and applied AI skills in his own teaching practice.
Go beyond one-off prompts to build effective, consistent workflows using AI skills - reusable instructions that guide AI through performing specific tasks.
Join us to learn how to turn your existing teaching workflows into more effective, repeatable practice, without technical expertise or extensive experience with AI required.
You’ll also discover how to use and contribute to the university’s repository of teaching-related skills.
Event Summary
The lunchtime sharing introduced participants to AI skills – reusable packages of instructions, scripts, and resources that guide AI in performing specific tasks. Rather than having to repeatedly provide the same instructions and context, instructors can use skills to streamline recurring tasks and build on workflows they have already developed and refine.
Senior Lecturer Randall Duran, from the School of Computing and Information Systems, shared how he uses skills in AI-assisted teaching workflows that are more consistent, efficient, and repeatable. Using AI Studio’s Chat, SMU’s institutional AI platform that supports skills out-of-the-box, he demonstrated how this works in practice. Across a series of hands-on exercises, he walked participants through the process of creating, modifying, and sharing a Kahoot quiz generation skill – which he regularly employs in a workflow to generate in-class engagement quizzes.
The session also highlighted how skills can be shared and adapted by other instructors, allowing useful teaching workflows and practices to extend beyond their original creators. Participants explored how to export, share, and reuse skills, demonstrating their potential to support the exchange of teaching practices across the SMU community.
Quick links to get started
- Watch the session recording
- AI Studio Chat – look for skills in the left-hand navigation menu
- CTE's AI Skills Repository on Github – look out for a SharePoint version coming to AI Compass soon