About this module
Welcome to our module on generative AI (genAI) prompting. GenAI is a fantastic resource in your learning and study toolkit. This technology can create study plans, design graphics for presentations, compose study focus music or coach you through exam question preparation.
For genAI to produce the kind of content you’re looking for, you need to tell it what you want. Using genAI to get what you want first relies on understanding how to question or prompt effectively.
The Big Question
This module explores prompts. Ask yourself, 'How do my words affect what genAI creates?'
The words you put into a genAI tool hugely influence the quality of output that tool generates. It's important to consider how you currently ask a genAI tool to create content. How useful do you find the content it creates?
Click on the arrows to move through the interactive below to explore real world examples, and reflect on how you communicate with genAI tools.
Purpose of this module
In this module, we'll learn how to guide different generative AI platforms using prompts to get the best results for our academic needs. The key focus of the module is giving you some starting points for designing effective and ethical prompts (whether that’s for text or image or other genAI platforms) to get targeted, quality content for your study needs.
Learning objectives:
- Recognise the elements of prompting in genAI
- Explore genAI prompting for productivity, for learning and for strengthening your content
- Identify good practices to use in prompting genAI
- Reflect on how you can actively influence the quality of generated content through your prompting
This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Attribution and acknowledgement
Crediting creators or attributing content is a core part of both academic integrity and of being a digital citizen more broadly. This guide has been informed by the following resources in terms of the using genAI practical concepts, their instructional approach and their open education design:
- AI in Education modules created by University of Sydney students and staff
Definitions and other written content were augmented or refined through use of text based genAI tools: Bing Chat and ChatGPT (Microsoft and OpenAI 2023).
This module was created by Deakin Library. The text and layout of 'GenAI prompts' © Deakin University 2023 and licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0