Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

In 2025, the First-Year Composition (FYC) program at the University of Central Florida (UCF) chose to engage in intentional conversations about the development of a meaningful resource, Principles for GenAI Use in FYC at UCF, that would best serve instructors and students as they navigated Generative Artificial Intelligence in their composition courses. Throughout this presentation, we invite others to examine their values and connect those values to GenAI policies, procedures, and guidelines to serve as a useful resource in their own local contexts. We outline how a collaborative, values-driven approach can sustain programmatic commitments in the midst of ever-changing conversations around GenAI.

“AI-ready” gets used as a slogan more than a design goal. We’ll show what it looks like inside an actual assignment. Walk through a Peer Review activity using Acai Feedback Coach to scaffold review quality in real time, a Reflection Coach prompt that captures student reasoning between drafts, and a Rubric Assistant plus Grading Assistant pairing that helps instructors design and implement these activities at scale.

The result: process assignments that students can’t fake, and that instructors can actually grade.

As the applications of GenAI within postsecondary education continue to evolve, the need for promoting GenAI fluency among all university constituents is critical. We will open this interactive session by using a think-pair-share exercise to introduce the Scaffolded Artificial Intelligence Literary (SAIL) framework and explore its relevance to designing institutional GenAI principles and policies. We will then establish connections between these principles/policies and outcomes associated with implementation of a GenAI faculty, staff, and graduate student/postdoc professional development opportunity on our campus, prompting attendees to reflect on how they might apply what they have learned in their own contexts.