AI Literacy for Instructors: Teaching and Assessing in the Age of AI

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How this course works

You can read the pages in any order, and you do not have to mark a page complete to move to the next one. To earn your certificate, click Mark Complete on each lesson and topic as you finish it, then take the final quiz and score 85% or higher. When every page is complete and the quiz is passed, your certificate unlocks and you can download it anytime from the course page.

A practical, self-paced course. Work through the lessons in order and pass the final quiz to earn your certificate.

What you’ll be able to do by the end

  • Explain in plain terms how generative AI tools work and where they fail.
  • Move beyond detection toward sound assignment and assessment design.
  • Design assignments and assessments that stay meaningful in an age of AI.
  • Talk with students openly about using AI in your course.
  • Write a clear course AI policy and point students to your institution’s guidance.
  • Use AI to support your own teaching workflow, responsibly.
  • Keep access and human judgment central as you adopt AI.

Course Content

Lesson 1: What generative AI is 3 Topics
Lesson 2: Why detection is the wrong foundation 3 Topics
Lesson 3: Designing assignments AI cannot easily do 3 Topics
Lesson 4: Redesigning assessment 4 Topics
Lesson 5: Teaching with AI openly 4 Topics
Lesson 6: Writing your course AI policy 3 Topics
Lesson 7: Using AI to support your teaching 3 Topics
Lesson 8: Access and keeping humans central 3 Topics