This page provides TEP-produced tools, UO-licensed programs available to you, and University of Oregon and other national and international resources to help you follow the conversation around AI and teaching.
Teaching Engagement Program Tools
Built by TEP, for direct use in your teaching
AI Course Readiness Self-Check
A short, interactive quiz that maps your course across three stances and three readiness zones. Get tailored feedback, download your responses, and schedule a TEP consultation if you'd like to talk it through.
AI-Aware Assignment Template (Word)
A TILT-informed template for communicating purpose, task, and AI expectations.
AI Assignment Testing Guide (Word)
A prompting document for testing your assignments against AI.
Student Metacognition Guide
A student-facing guide that encourages intentional pauses before reaching for AI.
UO Licensed Tools
Available to you through campus agreements
The University of Oregon provides access to several tools with AI features built in.
Microsoft Copilot Chat with Data Protection
Microsoft Copilot Chat (web-based) with data protection. Log in with your Duck ID at copilot.microsoft.com, or install the app for iOS or Android. When you sign in with your UO account, Enterprise Data Protection applies automatically. Prompts and responses stay inside UO's Microsoft tenant, are encrypted, and aren't used to train Microsoft's models or shared outside UO. This covers both Copilot Chat and licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Zoom AI Companion
Built-in AI assistant. Summarize meetings, flag action items, and more.
- Data terms: UO's enterprise agreement with Zoom includes contractual data terms similar to our Microsoft agreement. Zoom and its partners cannot use our content to train Zoom's or any third party's AI models. This is a flat prohibition rather than an opt-out, and it holds even though AI Companion routes some tasks to outside models.
- Practical guidance: Treat an AI-summarized meeting the same as a recorded one. If a conversation is sensitive, leave AI Companion off.
- For more details please visit: Getting Started with AI Zoom Companion
Gradescope
Software for efficiently grading student work, especially handwritten assessments.
Collaborative Annotation Tools
UO licenses two tools, Perusall and Hypothesis, that make reading visible and social. Students engage with readings, instructors, and one another.
Respondus Lockdown Browser
A locked browser for in-class Canvas exams. It keeps students from opening other programs or websites while they take the exam.
Explore Further
Guides, books, podcasts, and events from across UO and beyond.
For those who want to go deeper: UO resources, guides and frameworks from other institutions, books, podcasts and documentaries, conferences, and communities.
UO Resources
- UO Libraries offers AI consultations, a 30-minute AI literacy module for undergraduates, and in-person workshops. See Libraries' AI page.
- UO Libraries' research guide covers best practices for using AI in coursework and research. See Using Generative AI.
- UO AI Council advises UO leadership on the effective and ethical use of AI in teaching, learning, research, and administration. See AI Council page.
- AI Council Strategic Recommendations set out 18 recommendations for GenAI in teaching and learning. See Strategic Recommendations.
- LinkedIn Learning offers short video courses on AI basics, free to UO faculty, staff, and students. See UO's LinkedIn Learning page.
- Academic Impressions offers webcasts and courses on higher education topics, including classroom AI policy, free to UO faculty and staff. See UO's Academic Impressions page.
Guides/Frameworks from Other Institutions
- Oregon State University Ecampus shares assignment examples and assessment redesign tools. See Artificial Intelligence Tools.
- Stanford's Teaching Commons provides AI literacy modules for instructors. See Understanding AI Literacy.
- Columbia's Center for Teaching and Learning offers resources for instructors. See Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI.
- Civics of Technology is a critical technology education network focused on the civic and social stakes of tech in classrooms. See the Civics of Technology site.
- MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use Report proposes university-wide AI guidelines. See the committee's final report (2026).
- EDUCAUSE offers a framework for institutional AI policy. See 2024 Action Plan: AI Policies and Guidelines.
Books
- The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching: Vee, Watkins & Bruff (2026). Practical strategies for designing assignments, and addressing academic integrity.
- The Opposite of Cheating: Bertram Gallant & Rettinger (2025). Teaching for integrity with a focus on course design.
- Empire of AI: Karen Hao (2025). An investigative account of OpenAI's rise and the environmental, labor, and power costs of the AI industry.
- The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Bender & Hanna (2025).
Podcasts/Documentaries
- Teaching in Higher Ed (Bonni Stachowiak)
- Tea for Teaching (SUNY Oswego CETL)
- Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna)
- My Robot Teacher (California State University faculty)
- Ghost in the Machine (Valerie Veatch, 2026)
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, 2026)
Conferences
- AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education: October 28-30, 2026.
- Teaching and Learning with AI (UCF): June 1-3, 2027. In person only.
- AI Week 2026 (Oregon State University). Recordings available.
- AI Week (AAC&U). Recordings available.
- Public AI Summit for Educators (AI Pedagogy Project, metaLAB at Harvard)
National AI Resources and Spaces
- AI in Education (Google Group): A cross-institutional email list.
- EDUCAUSE: A national higher education technology association with AI reports, virtual events, and community groups.
- MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI.
- AI + Education = Simplified (Lance Eaton).
Looking for a specific resource, or want to talk it through? If something you need isn't here yet, or you'd rather talk through your course or assignment with someone directly, let us know. Email TEP or schedule a consultation.