Tools and workshops for AI in teaching
Booster workshops, verified AI tools and funding programmes: ETH offers lecturers a range of resources to successfully integrate generative AI into their teaching and adapt performance assessments to the new circumstances.?
ETH encourages lecturers to proactively use generative AI in teaching. To this end, it provides various resources – ranging from training courses to data protection-compliant access to AI chatbots. Daniel Flück, a specialist in innovation management in the Unit for Teaching and Learning (UTL), recommends three resources:
1. Rethinking assessment and teaching: Booster workshops
How is generative AI changing assessment? And how can it be used effectively in the classroom? These questions are at the heart of compact booster workshops. Lecturers invest three hours in preparation and take part in a four-hour workshop. There, they develop and discuss their ideas with colleagues. They then test their concept during interactions with students. The format works well because lecturers learn from one another and engage in hands-on work straight away.
Anyone looking for initial inspiration can take a look at the catalogue of Innovedum projects or visit the Learning and Teaching Fair on 6 May.
2. Using managed tools – now including Google AI Pro
The IT Services provide legally and technically vetted AI tools. These include Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and NotebookLM. The basic versions are included in the existing licence models. Those who log in using their ETH accounts gain access to more features and, subject to certain licence conditions, ensure that enquiries and uploaded documents are not used for training the models. The IT Services specify in their documentation which AI services are authorised for which types of data.
If required, extended versions can be purchased via the IT Shop – including, newly, the ‘Google AI Pro’ licence for Gemini. Additionally, course-specific chatbots or exercise tutors from the ETHEL project are available.
3. Get funding for projects
Through the Innovedum Fund, ETH supports projects on the use of AI in teaching and learning. Funding is provided in particular for initiatives that integrate existing AI tools into teaching and various forms of performance assessment, and apply them in practice.
Contact and information
All information, guides and links to the tools can be found on the website .
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