Reflection on Chatbots in Education by Xanda Steyn

2025-06-19 08:33:21 UTC

We realized that custom models can give good strategies for passing exams

2025-06-19 08:33:22 UTC

I made a custom GPT that includes my entire lecture slides and a complex custom prompt.

The students don't use it much though... 🤷

2025-06-19 08:34:24 UTC

Chatbot as an additional tutor for individualized and flexible support for students

2025-06-19 08:35:50 UTC

Our students have come up with very elaborate systems to try and cheat in exams using chatgpt. Including things like taking brief pictures after distracting the teacher, and having someone outside sending it to chatgpt, then sending the answer back to a smartwatch display. Essentially chatgpt gets almost the perfect grade in the exam so we should rethink it all, but who has time for that...

2025-06-19 08:36:00 UTC

instead of a moodle "support chat" with everyone we can use an AI to answer questions to assignments. the AI could be trained on previous FAQs to provide standardized and helpful answers

2025-06-19 08:38:48 UTC

Using LLMs to provide general information/intro to the topic before the class, so that in-person lectures can focus on in-depth topics, discussions and student can benefit from the expert knowledge more

2025-06-19 08:39:42 UTC

for an essay, our students have to analyze a study critically on their own and with two AI models. They need to compare the three performances and insights. But since most of them are using ChatGPT to generate the essay in the first place, chatbots are comparing chatbots. I still think it's a nice idea though to integrate chatbots into the course

2025-06-19 08:39:47 UTC

It can act as a teacher assistant to answer learner' questions after the lectures and give feedback on assignments

2025-06-19 08:41:21 UTC

Musterlösungen für Anwendungsaufgaben erstellen

2025-06-19 08:41:31 UTC

I mainly use AI to streamline brainstorming + prototyping. My experience with using custom AI models as tutors has been underwhelming, as students prefer commercially-available AI models (especially ChatGPT since I believe they mostly haven't realised that Claude (Sonnet 4) is currently the best for coding).

2025-06-19 08:43:40 UTC

including custom AI tools for coding experiments, e.g. in VR, helps students to get into experimenting more quickly

mandanazare4006 — 2025-06-19 08:46:40 UTC

I was surprised by how smoothly it handled follow-up questions and adapted to academic tasks like summarizing and drafting content