Setting up knowledge base articles and other documentation can follow outlines similar to those instructional designers and faculty members using prompts to plot out a course.
Permission to share these prompts was give by their creator, Jessica L. White, Ph.D., Senior Instructional Designer at North Carolina State University’s Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) and the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences (FBNS). She was one of my classmates in the EDUCAUSE Learning Lab ChatGPT in Higher Education course.
White said, “The first thing I tell all my faculty is to not be afraid of ChatGPT or any of its counterparts. AI has been here longer than some realize, and most of us incorporate it through Grammarly or other tools that aid us in productivity, writing, and analysis.”
She also explains to her faculty how the tool works. “Since I’ve done a compare/contrast of each tool, I offer options and encourage them to try all the tools for themselves to see which may meet their needs as all faculty need something different from these tools. The other thing I talk to my faculty about using it ethically and teaching their students how to use it for their benefit and learn from it as a tool,” said White.
When her faculty are ready to try the tool, she encourages them to create prompts and shares several examples.
Baseline Instructional Text Prompt
The elements in White’s baseline prompts are highly customizable. An example of the first two points – a course outline and an evaluation rubric – follows White’s prompt notes.
As a [subject] undergrad/grad professor who teaches [online/f2f/hyflex/blended], provide me with a course outline for a [X- week] semester. I’d like to cover the following topics throughout the semester: [Topic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
Create a rubric with [categories] for [topic] that incorporates [elements] to score to [point value] that addresses the [learning objectives/assignment task]
Example of a Filled-in Prompt
As a nutrition sciences undergrad professor who teaches hybrid courses, provide me with a course outline for a 12-week semester. I’d like to cover the following topics throughout the semester: food security, food accessibility, foodways, flavor profiles, and common ingredients.
Create a rubric with standard categories for nutrition sciences modules to score 100 points addressing the learning objectives or assigned tasks.
Example of the Prompt Adapted for Documentation
As an university infrastructure engineer in a highly regarded research university, you guide faculty members through their transition to safe cloud storage; provide an outline for setting up a new model for deploying IT applications in an academic research center to the cloud using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. I’d like to cover the following topics: control, reduction in human maintenance resources, improved delivery times with on-demand server creation, elastic capacity, improved disaster recovery, and robust security.
Weight the number of words in the different sections according to similar documentation published in the last 3 months, and add an introduction of two sentences to each section.
More Instructional Prompts to Edit
Create a course assignment that uses the following [learning objectives].
Create a [topic] case study using [learning objectives] with a minimum of 250 words that requires students to answer a minimum of [X] questions related to the following [case components related to LOs].
Create a [topic] case study using [learning objectives] with a minimum of 250 words that requires students to answer a minimum of [X] questions related to the following [case components related to LOs].
Image Prompt
Opening up Adobe Firefly one afternoon, I saw this gorgeous image of a college professor generated by a creator listed only as Professora de Química AG –which might be Portuguese.
See it and sigh. Then try the prompt yourself to get something like this:
