AI has its uses. We have to make all our course materials “accessible” which implies a lot of dumb clicking and formatting. I told Copilot to do it for me. Copilot wrote code in Python and turned my materials into ugly unreadable craps that give me a 100% accessibility scores.
I will send the normal version of the materials to the students in secret because nobody can get any use from the “accessible” version. We are on the verge of doing secret rotaprint documents like in the USSR. But at least I didn’t have to spend any time on creating the “accessible” craps myself.
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Our official syllabi are now a dozen pages long. Yet what students care about is what they’ve always cared about, which is where/when/how they can find instructor if they have questions, where they can find course postings online, how the grade is determined, when the exams and/or other graded activities are due and where they are held (if not their regular classroom), what books/readings they’re expected to go through, and a list of topics covered (ideally listed by date). All of this is 2 pages, tops. So now at the beginning of the semester I distribute a document that I don’t call syllabus but something vague like course info or course logistics, which contains the stuff students actually care about. It feels very subversive.
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I do the same. The official syllabus reads like a mockery. There are two separate sections on how to be respectful to others in the course that sound like they are addressed to pre-schoolers. Why anybody believes students will read these inane brochures is a mystery.
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