Introduction

Welcome to your AI Cookbook for the University of Missouri. We are here to share some recipes for prompting. Perhaps you have heard terms like prompting, prompt engineering, and prompt design. These prompts give directions, queries and intentions to generate text or images in generative AI.

The recipes (prompts) in this cookbook are focused on helping you to prepare and facilitate your courses. AI can assist you with creating content that meets outcomes, lesson planning, generating rubrics and producing syllabi among other things. This AI Cookbook is where ideas and models are presented in a user-friendly format of a cookbook.

Using This Cookbook

This cookbook is split into the following parts: “Appetizers” – Course Design Prep and “Main Courses" – Course Facilitation. Here you will find recipes (prompts) and ingredients (key words and considerations) to use with generative AI.

The way this book is structured encourages users to think of larger learning objectives, then working down to particular learning outcomes. You’ll want to approach this information in a linear manner to ensure alignment among your course design elements.

Have some goals in mind. Approach these prompts with an idea of what lesson plans and activities you’re planning. Some prompts may inspire new types of assessment. Like cooking, you can experiment by adding details or redirecting your intended result – the act of refining a prompt can unlock goals you may not have had going in.

Creative Commons License

This cookbook is licensed under a BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed license. If you plan to revise to fit your needs, please notify the authors at teachingtools@umsystem.edu. This cookbook was based on Generative AI Recipes Designed to Enhance Teaching & Learning A UFIT CITT Cookbook by Chris Sharp and Leslie Mojeiko.