Digital Learning and Teaching

Scenarios for use in everyday work life

Textgenerative AI models like ChatGPT excel in one thing: Writing texts. This means, their capabilities aren't limited to writing in itself, they can also answer questions, solve tasks, make suggestions, and more. And if they can do these things, they can also:

  • create drafts for teaching
  • provide outline
  • create exercises
  • summarize texts
  • simplify texts
  • evaluate solutions
  • translate
  • give feedback
  • ...

On this page, we collected some ideas, on where AI-tools can support teachers in their everyday work life. This collection is not complete by far - it is merely intended as an impulse for anyone interested in further looking into AI.
Naturally, we assume that the results produced by AI will not be taken as they are, but they should rather be evaluated critically and be seen as a first draft. Still, using AI can prove to be very useful, since it can help save a lot of time, which can then be used for tasks that no computer could do, such as personal feedback to students.

General organisation:

  • Create learning goals (ChatGPT knows Bloom taxonomy!)
  • Create descriptions for classes/moduls
  • Create a syllabus

Organisation of the semester:

  • Propose semester timetables
  • Create or optimise learning goals
  • Suggest teaching content
  • Planning of individual classes
  • Propose ideas for class

Introduction and motivation:

  • Give proposals for a (provocative) introduction
  • Generate a case study or a problem
  • Generate images

Activation of previous knowledge:


Knowledge transfer and development

  • Create texts
  • Summarize or simplify texts
  • Create outline
  • Create (individual) reading texts (e.g. foreign language classes)
  • Summarize a Youtube Video
  • Give suggestions for movies, music and literature
  • Create transcripts of videos

Taking in and reflecting the class:

  • Create tasks and problems
  • Create problem sheets
  • Write feedback

Application, exercise, transfer:

  • Create exercises
  • Create Quizzes
  • Suggest examination method
  • Topic suggestions for a seminar thesis etc.
  • Create exercises for performance record
  • Formulate test questions (with distractors)
  • Create evaluation grid
  • Create feedback texts
  • Suggest assesments (Do not upload exams: Data protection!)