Class planning isn’t just about creating syllabi. It’s about clarifying goals, inspiring students, and choosing where to spend your limited time and energy. Whether you’re building a brand-new course or refining materials you’ve taught for years, UT Verse can help expand your perspectives on planning for the academic session ahead. 

1. Clarify Your Learning Objectives
   Learning outcomes guide your course design, and you can use UT Verse to explore different ways of expressing your objectives, align them with Bloom’s Taxonomy, and ensure your materials and assessments connect to your goals. 
   
2. Prioritize What Matters Most
   It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by long lists of tasks. UT Verse can help you sort out what’s high-impact, break big projects into smaller steps, and create timelines that keep you on track—so you can focus your energy where it counts. 
   
3. Draft Materials Faster
   Need to get started on a syllabus, assignment instructions, or lesson plan? UT Verse can generate drafts, propose discussion questions, or suggest examples. You stay in control, refine, and personalize the content to fit your course and your voice. 
   
4. Navigate Complex Topics
   From writing inclusive policies to introducing sensitive subject matter, some parts of planning require extra care. UT Verse can help you find clear, thoughtful language and brainstorm ways to make your classroom welcoming for every student. 

Bonus Objective
Try creating a custom UT Verse AI Assistant that helps you with brainstorming tasks. Leverage the Smart Persona (magic wand icon in the personality box) to help you design its personality. You can base this persona on a subject, output format, specific guidelines, and anything you want the AI to know to complete its objectives. Once you create the AI Assistant, you may use it in any new or existing thread to help you with your work. Mastering AI Assistants will significantly improve your responses from UT Verse, specific to those tasks, as they change responses from generic to expert! Do you need help creating one? Ask UT Verse! 

With UT Verse, you can focus on what makes your course unique while staying organized, reflective, and inspired. 

Additional Resources

Check out OIT Teaching and Learning with AI resources.