# Faculty AI Use Cases ## expand\_more These pages collect examples of AI in teaching from across Harvard. Open any topic to see what instructors and students did in real courses, and contact the Bok Center to talk through a version for your own course. ### Students creating with AI Faculty are encouraging students to experiment with building things using AI, from interactive games and web-based essays to databases and timelines. When we design these activities with faculty, we preserve a desirable difficulty, so that creating with AI deepens students' understanding of course material and brings their ideas to full articulation. [### Studying AI itself ](/studying-ai-itself-0)Many courses study AI directly or examine its relationship to their field. We work with faculty to design experiences that help students think critically about AI, look beneath the hood of familiar tools, and investigate AI using the questions and methods of their fields. [### Tutor bots and AI feedback ](/tutor-bots-and-ai-feedback)Faculty can work with us to design AI assistants for their courses: chatbots that draw on course materials and follow instructions that guide their responses toward the teaching team's goals, offering support better suited to the course than a general-purpose chatbot alone. We also work with faculty to help students use generative AI in ways that support their learning. [### Assessment in the age of AI ](/assessment-age-ai)As faculty grow concerned about inappropriate AI use in asynchronous, take-home assignments, the Bok Center works with them to design and support other modes of assessment. These typically include an in-person component or work completed without AI. [### Annotation and research with AI ](/annotation-and-research-ai)In some courses, faculty are prototyping ways for students to use AI at different stages of the academic research and writing process: annotating texts, transcribing, finding and working with sources, and drafting and revising papers and presentations. [### Language instruction ](/language-instruction)We work with language instructors to create materials and tools for their students and to help students use AI in ways that support language learning. Students might build their own learning apps or practice with models that communicate in multiple languages, investigating what the models do well and where they fall short. #### Recent AI News [### From the Claude Code Workshops to the Classroom: Claire-Marie Brisson Launches Le Sillage ](/news/2026/10/claude-code-workshops-classroom-claire-marie-brisson-launches-le-sillage) October 20, 2026 Faculty who attended the Bok Center’s summer workshop series “Claude for Teaching, Course Development, and Research” have begun building tools for their own courses. This fall, students in French 64 are doing their coursework inside one of them: an online... ![Claire-Marie Brisson sitting at a table talking into a mic in the learning lab](/sites/g/files/omnuum6756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/Claire-Marie_Brisson_20260708.png?itok=SyF8hTKB) [### Beyond the Chatbox: Faculty Move From Chatting With AI to Building With It ](/news/2026/10/beyond-chatbox-faculty-move-chatting-ai-building-it) October 08, 2026 Most faculty know AI as a chat window in a browser. This fall, the Bok Center's Learning Lab is offering "Beyond the Chatbox," a ninety-minute hands-on workshop that moves them a step further. Faculty work in the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps, which can... ![Madeleine Woods talking at a table with students](/sites/g/files/omnuum6756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-10/20260903_AILab_stills_07.jpg?itok=Lw6CQsZ_) [### The Bok Center Develops Oral Assessment Resources with Faculty Partners ](/news/2026/03/bok-center-develops-oral-assessment-resources-faculty-partners) March 11, 2026 The Bok Center recently brought together Sarah Craycraft from Folklore and Mythology and Lauren Kaminsky from History and Literature to develop practical resources for implementing oral assessments. Drawing on historical research into the traditional... ![cards on table ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/oral-exam-test.png?itok=lRgj6jEr) [### Hebrew Students Build Custom AI Practice Tools in Bok Workshop ](/news/2026/03/hebrew-students-build-custom-ai-practice-tools-bok-workshop) March 05, 2026 In a recent workshop with MOD-HEB BB students, the Bok Center supported the development of custom AI-powered learning tools. Rather than relying on generic language apps, students designed interactive flashcard interfaces and vocabulary drills populated... ![madeleine writing](/sites/g/files/omnuum6756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/mod-heb.jpg?itok=ZGiHYi97) [### Prompt Engineering Workshop Supports AI Poetry Analysis in COMPLIT 126X/HUM5: Literature and/as Artificial Intelligence ](/news/2026/03/prompt-engineering-workshop-supports-ai-poetry-analysis-complit-126xhum5-literature) March 04, 2026 The Bok Center collaborated with Moira Weigel from Comparative Literature on a zero-code workshop focused on prompt- and context-engineering techniques. Students learned to break down complex operations into discrete, chainable steps, working from human... ![papers on table](/sites/g/files/omnuum6756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/complit126x_02.jpg?itok=c8ttTIym)