AI Spotlight: Image Accessibility Generator + Build a Syllabus Assistant

This 60-minute session is reserved for ASU faculty, staff, and teaching assistants.
This workshop will be held online only.

This session will not be recorded. The use of automated bots, AI assistants, or other meeting recording devices are prohibited without the prior approval of event coordinators.

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AI Spotlight: Image Accessibility Generator + Build a Syllabus Assistant

In this AI Spotlight session, the Technology Innovations Learning Team (TILT) at EdPlus will share their journey developing the Image Accessibility Generator, a tool that reduces the time and effort needed to write high quality alt text, improving accessibility and demonstrating how AI can address real world challenges and scale impact for learners.

Following the showcase, participants will move from inspiration to action by exploring the CreateAI platform in a hands-on activity where faculty and staff will build their own Syllabot, an interactive assistant that answers student questions directly from a course syllabus. This exercise demonstrates how anyone can quickly transform course documents into practical, interactive AI tools.

This workshop will help attendees:

• Identify at least one real-world challenge addressed by the Technology Innovations Learning Team (TILT) at EdPlus and explain how AI was used to solve it.

• Upload and configure a syllabus in CreateAI as the knowledge base for a syllabus assistant using the Syllabot template.

• Test and refine a customized syllabus assistant to ensure it accurately answers common student questions.
  

Presenters:

• Dee-Dee Collins-Jones, AI Emerging Specialist, LX Design, Enterprise Technology
• Michael Arseneault, Manager, TILT, EdPlus
• Wes Fleming, AI Digital Solutions Lead, TILT, EdPlus
  

Target Audience: ASU Faculty, staff and teaching assistants

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Important Details:

Online Attendance:

• Participants will attend remotely via Zoom (a link to Zoom room will be emailed the morning of the training).
• An ASU Zoom account is required to join this session.
• Please register using your ASU email.
• Time is based on Arizona time.
• Online Registration closes 15 minutes before the event start time.

For questions, please email: emergingtechnology@asu.edu.