Ohio University faculty, researchers and academic support staff interested in building custom chatbots are invited to a half-day, hands-on workshop designed by Professor Jared DeForest, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment GenAI faculty fellow and chair of the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology.

During the workshop, participants will be introduced to custom GenAI chatbots and how they differ from ChatGPT and other platforms, think about the use cases for this type of chatbot and receive a tutorial on how to frame knowledge to create the chatbot for use in teaching and research. They will also consider methods for evaluating and improving their chatbots.

At the end of this workshop, any participant with access to ChatGPT-4o will have a functional and tested custom GPT.

The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, Oct. 11, in the CTLA Collaboratory, McGuffey Hall. Please note, this is fall break. The event will be recorded, but the training will be in person.

Outcomes

• Participants will understand strengths, and limitations, of custom GPT's and evaluate whether they can be applied to their teaching and/or research environment. 
• Participants will understand the ethical considerations and evaluate if custom GPT’s will align with their vision of their GPT.  
• Participants will be able to create a custom GPT with Knowledge and understand how to train to GPT with Instructions to serve a specific purpose, but set boundaries to protect academic and research integrity.  
• Participants will be able to evaluate their GPT performance on usefulness and integrity to make necessary changes to the Instructions.

Register Here.