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Accesso-Bot: Scaling Accessible Course Materials Across USC Marshall with AI-Assisted Remediation

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, David Melone, USC Marshall School of Business, demonstrates how “Accesso-Bot,” a custom GPT, helps rapidly remediate course materials into accessible formats for students, including transcripts, readable documents, and detailed image descriptions. He shows how the tool cuts turnaround time from days to hours while preserving instructional intent and supporting students who rely on screen readers and other assistive technologies.

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Teaching Research Judgment Through Annotated Bibliography

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Deborah Natoli and Minh Trinh, USC Price School of Public Policy, share how they redesigned an annotated bibliography assignment using AI tools like NotebookLM, including a structured guide for students to log AI use and verify sources while building AI literacy and critical evaluation skills.

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The 24/7 Office Hour: Bridging the Communication Gap with Custom GPTs

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Wanmeng Li, USC Dornsife (East Asian Languages and Cultures), demonstrates how custom GPTs and retrieval-augmented generation can automate routine student questions, reduce repetitive emails, and create course-specific Q&A bots grounded in syllabi and other class materials.

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Design, Test, Refine: Using AI to Build Better Assignments

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Mathew Curtis, USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, walks through a framework for using AI at three progressive levels to refine assignment prompts, generate examples, anticipate student confusion, and stress-test assignment design against course learning objectives.

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Prompts and Queries: Guiding Introductory Biology Students Through Effective Use of AI

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Rita Barakat, USC Dornsife (Biology), shares how she redesigned formative assessments in introductory biology to guide students in using generative AI through carefully structured prompts, problem sets, and reflection questions that build critical thinking and help them evaluate AI output.

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Beyond Role-Play: Using AI-Generated Patients to Practice Pain Management Interviews

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Mariela Padilla, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, demonstrates how she uses AI-supported role play scenarios to help students practice pain management conversations, emphasizing clinical communication skills, empathy, and responsible use of AI in patient interactions.

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Integration for Engagement: Teaching with AI

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Ian Spatz, USC Price School of Public Policy, shares how he incorporates AI into weekly reading assignments, using structured prompts to support student engagement, deepen analysis of course materials, and encourage critical evaluation of AI-generated responses.

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AI for Brainstorming and Editing (ABE) Tool in WRIT 340

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Liz Blomstedt and Jen Bankard, USC Dornsife Writing Program, demonstrate how they developed and use the AI for Brainstorming and Editing (ABE) tool in Writing 340 to support weekly writing assignments, strengthen hooks and counterarguments, and help students reflect on their writing process and revisions through instructor-visible timelines and change summaries.

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