AI in Curriculum

EAIT’s AI in Curriculum webpage is developed to house Faculty specific guidance, resources, and examples of AI in Curriculum. It is a complement to central resources:

AI Teacher Hub: Designed to support UQ staff to use, talk about, and design for AI in your teaching.
AI Student Hub: Designed to support UQ student use and understanding of responsible use of AI in their studies.
AI HDR Hub: Due for release in January 2026. It will offer tailored guidance, examples, best-practice advice, and access to UQ-approved tools.
This page was last updated on 19 December 2025.

UQ's Lead through Learning strategy

Lead through Learning (2025-2027) is UQ’s whole-of-University strategy addressing the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in education.

The strategy has 2 main goals:

Preparing students for responsible AI use. Equipping students with ethical, practical AI skills they can use in their studies, careers, and communities, and preparing them to lead and shape the future of AI integration in their fields.
Maintaining the integrity of the learning process. Ensuring that academic standards are upheld through secure and credible assessment practices.

Each Faculty has developed their own specific three-year plan to outline their approach to integrating AI in learning and assessment.

Read the EAIT Lead through Learning: Faculty-Based Operational Plan.

Note: This document is for circulation within EAIT only.

The Learning Enhancement Team is providing Faculty support for Schools to meet Lead through Learning goals through upskilling, development of resources, and providing guidance through workshops, one-on-one course consultations and other forums.

Designing and securing assessment

The development and continuous evolution of AI tools significantly impacts validity and design of assessment tasks. As part of Lead through Learning strategy, UQ is implementing revised assessment policy to increase assessment security in each course.

Guidance in designing and securing assessment:

EAIT Secure Assessment: Information and Guidelines (PDF, 167.7 KB)
Rubric adjustments for AI-assisted assessment (PDF, 117.6 KB) (i.e. not secure assessment): a guide on how rubrics and rubric criteria could be adjusted with a greater emphasis on cognitive skills, and less on outputs and tasks that can easily be completed by AI tools.
Interactive oral assessment guide: Design, planning, and implementation (PDF, 269.4 KB): Interactive oral assessments (IOAs) foster critical thinking, application of knowledge, and communication skills through authentic dialogue in a secure format that upholds academic integrity.
Question and prompt guide for interactive oral assessments (PDF, 150.7 KB): a guide on question design for interactive oral assessments drawing on learning design principles, criteria-based rubric design, constructive alignment, and principles of semi-structured interviews.
Further general guidance on the Designing and Securing assessment page of the AI Teacher Hub.

Resources: EAIT examples of practice

Resources and examples of practice specific to EAIT context are being collated and will be shared here regularly.

If you have an example of how you have secured your assessment against AI, or incorporated AI into the curriculum you would like to share, please contact the Learning Enhancement Team. General examples are available through the AI Teacher Hub.

Responsible use of AI

Students are looking for more guidance about how to use AI effectively in their courses. The main communication for this comes from the teaching team for the course.

Guidance about discussing AI with students:

For general guidance in discussing AI see the Responsible use of AI slide deck (PPTX, 1.7 MB). Contact LET if you’d this as a workshop or presentation in your School.
Detailed guidance is available on the Introducing AI and what students think about it page of the AI Teacher Hub.

Examples of how academics are discussing AI with their students are listed below:

Introduction to AI and UQ Support PowerPoint (PPTX, 24.5 MB): For informational and assessment examples that you can reference in your course and presentation materials. Developed by ITaLI, these slides were last updated 7 July 2025.
AI Usage Framework (PPTX, 4.7 MB): Responsible Use of AI Checklist: Outlines general principles for using AI in assessment and links to eight checks students can complete throughout their use. Developed by Dr Peter Worthy (EECS) for an introductory postgraduate web design course. Last updated 20 February 2025.
Acknowledging and reflecting on AI (PPTX, 4.6 MB): An example of how AI use can be acknowledged and its use reflected on as a written piece. Developed by Dr Peter Worthy (EECS) for an introductory postgraduate web design course. If you use this resource, please let Peter know. He is interested in hearing how others use it, find it valuable, and feedback. Last updated 20 February 2025.

How to use AI Tools

There are many AI tools out there that are geared towards specific uses. These resources steps through ways you can use and teach students to use AI tools in different ways in teaching and learning.

AI tools for writing (PPTX, 341.3 KB): General resource to explore ways you can use artificial intelligence productively and responsibly at university
AI tools for image generation and editing (PPTX, 56.4 MB): General guidance on how to use AI image generation tools available to UQ staff and students.

UQ Library regularly runs AI related workshops. While they are for a student audience, staff are welcome to attend. View upcoming Library training and workshops, and scroll down to find the Artificial Intelligence section. Workshops include:

GenAI Tools Deep Dive: Prompting, Uses and Nuances introduces different Generative AI tools and their applications in academic work and studies.
Mastering prompt engineering: learn to communicate effectively with powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Microsoft Copilot to get higher quality, more accurate responses.
Leveraging AI for literature searching: learn about AI tools for discovering academic sources and the best techniques for finding the literature you need.
How to use AI for your systematic review: learn about AI tools to speed up the systematic review process. From machine learning through to LLMs, we will cover AI's potential for all the steps of systematic and scoping reviews.

Tailored versions of these workshops can be arranged for your School. If interested, contact LET.

Commonly used AI tools

AI tools are constantly evolving, making a list of commonly used tools difficult to maintain.

UQ AI tools for staff and students include Microsoft Copilot and the Adobe Creative Suite.
The Library has an Overview of AI tools for literature searching.
Other key AI tools and uses are listed in the AI pressbook.