AI Efforts on Campus
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the focus of many听conversations and activities on our campus spanning academic, research, and administrative operations. The Office of Information Technology seeks to bring coordination to these pursuits to allow for knowledge sharing, education, best practices, and awareness of these activities. Additionally, it aims to ensure students, faculty, and staff can leverage the power of AI while also ensuring responsible use and data stewardship. On this page you can find information about AI events and workshops, AI communities of practice, the AI Strategic Steering Committee and more.
This a campus-wide AI strategic steering committee has representation from research, teaching and learning, administrative and operational disciplines. Members assist with the creation of resources and guidance to campus users. Learn more about our members and activities so far.听
The 天美传媒 Boulder AI community of practice is comprised of staff and faculty across many disciplines that have interest or expertise in the field of artificial intelligence.听
Participants in the community of practice are not expected to have any specific or previous knowledge of AI, only a motivation to improve the ways AI is used within our campus and in higher education. The AI Community of Practice鈥檚 role includes: 听
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- and informing campus guidelines in the disciplines of research, teaching, learning and operations.
To join this community of practice, please . The Center for Teaching & Learning and ASSETT also host a .
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There is a great need to think about how generative artificial intelligence (AI) integrates with and impacts teaching and learning in higher education.
The CTL's AI Literacy Ambassador program brings together educators from colleges across campus that represent diverse disciplines and who are moderately experienced to advanced thinkers around teaching, learning and AI. Cohort mentors and participants will:
- Explore how departments, instructors, and students interact with, respond to, and accept, ignore, or reject uses of generative AI.
- Create information sharing support structures (e.g. live cohort sessions, listservs, repositories) for participants to gain key skills and support each other's gen AI investigations and innovations.
- Support one another in developing a discipline specific innovation associated with gen AI, which can focus on pedagogy and/or instigating related unit level dialogue about gen AI.
Interested in joining this year's cohort? Contact Blair Young, the CTL's innovation catalyst, at byoung@colorado.edu.
Campus Events and Initiatives听
Through the development of the AI steering team and Community of Practice, we anticipate the coordination of future on-campus and virtual events promoting the responsible use of AI across research, teaching and learning, and operational uses. Check back here often for events such as AI showcases, workshops and recordings of those events. The Center for Teaching & Learning and ASSETT also offer . If you have a proposal for a campus AI event, please join our community of practice to coordinate.听
The , developed through a cross-campus collaboration between OIT, CTL, and other campus stakeholders, is available to all 天美传媒 Boulder faculty and staff. This self-paced course is designed specifically for 天美传媒 Boulder faculty and staff with little prior experience with artificial intelligence. The goal is to raise the baseline of AI literacy across campus, empowering educators and administrators to safely, and more confidently, engage with AI tools and concepts in their work.
This one-hour course is accessible to all 天美传媒 faculty and staff through 天美传媒 Boulder鈥檚 instance of Canvas. You will be asked to authenticate into the Canvas LMS using your IdentiKey credentials. Once enrolled, learners can locate the course by clicking 鈥淐ourses鈥 in the left navigation panel of Canvas, then clicking into the 鈥淎I Literacy Foundations鈥 course. For questions or issues, please contact the .
Join Blair Young for an engaging session in the Teaching & Learning with AI Community of Practice (CoP). This event is designed for educators interested in exploring the evolving role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Together, we鈥檒l delve into practical applications, ethical considerations, and strategies for integrating AI tools effectively in the classroom.
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The Center for Teaching & Learning in collaboration with ASSETT (Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) stewards several initiatives that support the campus community as they navigate the impacts of generative AI on teaching and learning. The Center is committed to providing the 天美传媒 community with the support and resources they need to enter boldly into teaching and learning in the age of AI.听
Click on the links below to learn more:
The Division of Continuing Education鈥檚 Learning Design Group hosts a virtual Course Design Series on timely topics related to teaching and learning. The sessions for Fall 2025 focus on AI on campus:
Fall 2025 Session Topics:
- September 2 at 10 am - AI Literacy: A Critical Need in Higher Ed
- October 7 - What Are We Assessing? Authentic Assessment in the Era of AI
- November 4 - What Students Expect in 2026: A Student Panel
- December 2 - AI and its Nuances: A Book Report
For full details, past session recordings, and resources, visit the Course Design Series page.
This working group is open to faculty from across disciplines to address salient gen AI topics that impact faculty, students, and teaching and learning. In Fall 2024, the working group developed new AI Use Syllabus Guidance which was released in January 2025. In Spring 2025, the working group will address honor code considerations including best practices for grading and gen AI (plagiarism detectors, student privacy, intellectual property) and communicating with students about classroom gen AI policies and practices as they relate to the honor code. The group meets online every other Friday from 12-1pm. Please email Shelly Miller, at shelly.miller@colorado.edu, to participate.
The 天美传媒 Generative Futures Lab on campus is an informal and experimental space for faculty, staff and students to interact with generative text, voice, image, and knowledge-management and research tools. Hosted by 天美传媒 faculty, the lab is open to the campus to learn more about the possibilities and considerations surrounding AI use.
If you have questions about the lab, email Diane at Diane.Sieber@colorado.edu.
When: 12-3 p.m., Monday - Friday
Where: Discovery Learning Center, Room 1B10
Please join the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Community of Practice for the AI @ 天美传媒 Boulder Spring Showcase. The showcase will discuss the state of AI on campus today and highlight three unique ways that AI is being utilized within teaching, research and administration on campus.
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This showcase highlighted three ways that AI is being utilized in teaching, research and administration on the 天美传媒 Boulder campus. Here are the presenters and the topics they discussed:
Michael Klymkowsky, MCDB faculty听
AI in the classroom: Socratic tutor
Esther Rolf, Computer Science faculty听
AI in research: Using AI to analyze large data sets
Tim Crean, OIT staff 听
AI in operations: Microsoft 365 Copilot & GenAI capabilities
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This session covered Microsoft Copilot foundations, prompt-crafting tips and tricks, and what Copilot offers compared to other Gen AI tools.
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Join the AI Community of Practice
Any 天美传媒 Boulder affiliate can join the AI Community of Practice. This community uses as the hub for community and collaboration. To join,听click the + AICoP Microsoft Team button below. A moderator will have to approve your request to ensure that you are a current 天美传媒 Boulder affiliate.
AI Use Case Repository
We are evaluating campus requests for AI functionality in order to best inform our future roadmap and possible tool pilots. Understanding how 天美传媒 Boulder faculty, staff and researchers wish to incorporate AI tools and functions into their work can help determine campus focus and priorities. Share your request via the AI Use Case Repository request form.