Using UvA AI Chat to Collaborate with AI
Generative AI is rapidly changing how we design courses, support students and handle academic work with data , but most tools are not built for sensitive university information. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use UvA AI Chat as a secure “AI layer” on top of your own course materials, documents and datasets.
Course details
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how to use UvA AI Chat as a practical partner in your teaching and daily work. We’ll cover how to write effective prompts, create and reuse artifacts (for lesson prep, feedback, communication, and more). You’ll also get a sneak peek at upcoming options to connect AI directly to your own documents in Microsoft 365 and the LMS, so you can safely build on your existing materials with AI support.
Intended Learning Outcome
- Explain when and why UvA AI Chat is a secure choice for working with institutional documents and datasets, compared to external AI tools.
- Upload and organise documents for effective use in UvA AI Chat and decide when to use RAG versus only the context window.
- Design practical prompt workflows that let AI summarise, transform and analyse their own teaching or research data in a targeted way.
- Describe basic options for using APIs to connect AI to existing or new applications and identify at least one concrete workflow they could automate or enhance with AI.
Good to know
| Target audience | UvA teaching staff | |
| Language | English | |
| Trainer | Koen van Elsen (GenAI Living Lab) | |
| Participants | minimum of 8, maximum of 20 participants. | |
| Location | One of our UvA locations (see Registration) | |
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| Organised by | GenAI Living Lab, TLC Central |
Registration
The course is funded from central funds. Signing up is not non-committal, we will count on your participation.
- Registration buttons for employees with an @UvA.nl email address:
- For AUC, ACTA or FdG (AMC) employees: send an email with your name, faculty and date for which you want to register to tlc-centraal@uva.nl
After registering, you will receive an automated invitation for your Outlook calendar (please don’t forget to accept). If the location is not yet known at that time, an update will follow later.
A proof of participation is available upon request. Please send an email to tlc-centraal@uva.nl after the course.
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