SUNY Online Webinars: Leveraging Copilot & AI Assignments for Students: Assignment Examples

The SUNY Niagara AI Faculty Task Force would like to recommend the following two free webinars. 

Spring 2025 SUNY Online Teaching Webinars

March 26, 2025 – April 23, 2026

Zoom for all webinars: https://zoom.us/j/634598796 

All webinars are held 12:00-1:00PM EST- register for free here

March 26, 2025

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft, launched in 2023, and based on the GPT-4 series of large language models. Copilot’s conversational interface style resembles that of ChatGPT and is able to cite sources, create poems, generate songs, and use numerous languages and dialects. This webinar will explore Copilot and discuss use cases in online teaching and learning.

Presenter: Alexandra Pickett, Director, SUNY Online Teaching

 April 17, 2025

AI Assignments for Students: Examples from a Community of Practice

The Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship at SUNY Oneonta convened a community of practice inviting faculty from across campus to share approaches, tools, and materials related to AI in the classroom. The group met monthly to workshop assignments, troubleshoot challenges, and explore new pedagogies engaging with AI from a range of perspectives. These interdisciplinary discussions enabled faculty to adopt new technologies for use in their individual courses, draft and refine new curricular activities, and articulate values informed by diverse (and sometimes opposing) voices. In this panel presentation, group members will talk about their experiences and share materials developed out of their own engagements with AI tools for teaching and learning.

Presenter: Racheal Fest, Gina Solano, Liyao Pan, Wen Wen – SUNY Oneonta