AI + Assessment: Designing for Learning in the Age of GenAI
Idaho AI Catalyst Webinar #2
Registration Details
Date/Time: Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:00–11:00 AM Mountain
Format 60 minutes · AI Catalyst Training · Live Q&A
Where Zoom (registration required)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the join link.
Session description
Since 2022, many faculty increasingly face an onslaught of student work that’s clearly AI-generated. As a professor on the subreddit r/Professor recently expressed it, “You can smell the cheating a mile away.” What can faculty do? Or what can instructional designers do for faculty? On the one hand, we keep hearing there are ways to design courses and assessments that lean into AI-related durable skills; on the other hand, none of us wants to provide yet more opportunities for students to “offload” their thinking to ChatGPT. But the time and support to figure this out feels thin. This Idaho Catalyst session offers a clear, highly targeted set of moves you can use now or over the next year to update your courses. We will introduce the AI Assessment Scale, from “no AI” to “fully AI,” and show how to use it to reconfigure workshops, assignments, entire courses, or even rethink program outcomes. You will see research‑based practices, live demos, and ready‑to‑use checklists sourced from Idaho faculty who have already begun redesigning for AI.
Who this is for
Higher‑ed faculty, staff, and admins who design or evaluate learning experiences. Useful for instructors, coordinators, assessment leads, instructional designers, and department chairs.
What you’ll learn
- The AI Assessment Scale: how to place your assignments and courses on a spectrum from no‑AI to fully‑AI, and when to use each
- Research‑based tips for using genAI, custom chatbots, and other AI tools in ways that promote rather than hinder learning
- Cognitive offloading: where it typically occurs, how to detect it, and how to reassign the thinking back to students
- Practical redesigns: updating workshops, assignments, projects, and whole courses without starting from scratch
- Faculty spotlights: demonstrations from Idaho instructors who responded to student behaviors while increasing durable skills
- Community connections: how to connect with Idaho higher‑ed colleagues doing this work
About the Idaho AI Catalysts
A statewide network across Idaho’s public colleges and universities, facilitated by the Idaho State Board of Education. We share practices, build AI literacy, pilot tools, and host open trainings. Our aim is to help faculty use AI effectively and ethically within a community of practice.
