General Teaching Assistant
A comprehensive assistant trained on course newsletters, discussion guidelines, policies, and additional resources. Get help with general questions about GB 513.
Choose Your Assistant
Three specialized AI assistants are available to help you succeed in this course. Each is available in both ChatGPT and Google Gemini versions—try both and use whichever works best for you. All you need is a free account to get started.
Discussion Assistant
Focused exclusively on discussion boards. Tell it which unit you're posting for, paste your discussion response, and get targeted feedback to improve your contributions.
Project Assistant
Dedicated to helping with your final project. Upload your project presentation and receive comprehensive feedback to strengthen your work.
How to Use These Assistants
Discussion and Project Assistants
These specialized assistants focus solely on their respective areas. The Discussion Assistant knows only about discussion boards, and the Project Assistant knows only about the final project.
- Discussion TA: Tell it which unit you're posting for and paste your discussion topic response—it will provide feedback.
- Project TA: Upload your project presentation and ask for feedback—that's all you need to do.
Important Note:
These assistants will try to find recommendations every time you ask. If you revise and ask for a review
again, they may come up with different suggestions or even contradict previous ones. Use your judgment about
how seriously you want to act on their recommendations.
Handling Generic Responses
Sometimes the AI doesn't properly search its knowledge base and returns a generic, unhelpful response. For example, if you ask "what are some videos I can watch in unit 2?" it might say "check your course's multimedia section if it has one."
When you get an unhelpful answer that is clearly not based on actual GB 513 information, simply say:
Search your knowledge and answer again
This will result in a proper check of the documents and a better response. Be insistent and make them give a better answer if their initial response isn't helpful.
Managing Conversations
If you are having an extended conversation, the AI may start to forget things—it has limited "memory." Start a new conversation before switching topics to maintain quality responses.
You Are Responsible for What You Do
This is AI—it can get things wrong. It may say "you did a good job with this part" when it was actually lacking, or "your analysis was correct" when it wasn't. Just because it didn't find a mistake doesn't mean there wasn't one. It may also suggest things that are not necessary.
It works most of the time but not all the time. Treat it as a fellow student who is really good at the class but can still make mistakes. It's one tool to use as part of your work; it's not the overriding judge of what's good.
Use your judgment. You still need to do your best and check your work. If you are not OK with the responsibility this brings, don't use it.
Do Not Use It to Cheat
Remember that these assistants are here to help you, not do your work. You must create what you submit to the course.
AI assistants are not able to create Excel files with analysis using the Data Analysis Toolpak, which is what you will need to do for the 250-point Final Project. If you don't learn how to do the work yourself, you will have trouble when it matters most.
Citation Requirement:
If you use these tools to generate content that you then submit to the course, you must cite it. It's the
same as copying content from somewhere else. Do not try to pass content you did not create as yours.
Help Us Improve
If you have thoughts on how well (or poorly) these assistants worked, and suggestions to make them better, please email caltinoz@purdueglobal.edu.
We won't know how to improve them if we don't hear from users about where they failed and where they excelled.