Widespread availability of user-friendly artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Chat GPT, Co-Pilot, and Claude, and tutors such as Khanmigo can unsettle but also provide amazing opportunities for our traditional instructional models. One is the use of AI to efficiently create original instructional items such as reading, lecture, exercise, and assessment materials. The tools assist throughout the instructional resource development process, from aiding efficient organization of instructor knowledge, experiences, and insights into a framework conducive for learning to generating supporting illustrations and static or iteratively generated assessment questions.

The use of AI to develop instructional materials is especially valuable as a replacement for existing textbooks and other publisher supplied instructor teaching and assessment materials and programs. It reduces costs for students and provides considerable flexibility to instructors in what is covered in instructional materials and how it is covered, as well as allows even novice creators to easily and quickly refine them from term to term and even within a term.

This presentation will offer a short look at the process by showing attendees (1) creation of a chapter outline and fleshing out of one section using iterative interaction with ChatGPT, (2) creating a slide show of that content with one command in Co-Pilot, and (3) generation of assessment materials in a format that can be exported to Excel for uploading into a course management software using ChatGPT. Presentation time is short so the focus is entirely on exposure; that is, showing attendees what is possible for any novice.