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Sample Prompts Template

HOW TO COMPLETE THE TEMPLATE

  • Clone this page and give it a name that is both short and will entice people to read. That will display at the top of the page. Decide what you want to have as text on the tile (3-4 words) and the blurb that is below the tile image. They should be mutually informative but different. Add an excerpt at the bottom of the post form – this is what will display below the tile.
  • Let Gail or Michael know if you want to include a “Prompt in Action” callout video and we can assist.
  • Ensuring that the Sample Prompt displays properly
    • Add a “featured image,” which is the “tile.” We use Canva to make the tiles. Begin by making a tile by duplicating one of the slides in Canva and adding the text, and then download just that one slide as a .png. The Canva project is located at https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhDwczu1Y/6OEKyUWOsyydiWnupSj7bw/edit
    • Check the category and tag settings. Category should only have “AI Tips” selected. Tag should also be AI Tips – start typing ai-tips and it should auto-complete. Use this exact text or the tile won’t be displayed in the collection. Publish the page and check to make sure it has been added to the collection of tiles. If not, double check the category and tag settings.

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Description

Insert a 2-3 sentence simple description of the use scenario and why it might be valuable.

Steps

Prompt in Action

Hear X talk about her/his experience
prompting Claude to produce [topic].

  1. Get clear about what you want and why. What are your goals? Do you want to kick around ideas, or are you focused on generating a specific product? Do you want to customize the output for a particular audience? Thinking about this in advance can help you prepare for the session and consider what materials to feed into Claude to yield better results.
  2. Gather materials to inform Claude’s output. This might be a syllabus, assignment guidelines, data set, etc. — whatever you think would be informative in generating a productive chat session or product.
  3. Begin prompting. You may already have an idea for a prompt. If not, try “[insert MVP prompt for the topic of the tip]”

  4. Review the output. Is there anything you hadn’t thought of that you want to keep? Is there anything you might want to add, delete, or consolidate? [provide a few examples of follow-up prompts that might be useful given the prompting scenario – for example with rubrics “consolidate some of the criteria, provide me with three options for weighting the criteria and explain your reasoning, create a checklist for students that is based on the rubric”]

  5. Continue to prompt Claude. Refine the output until you are satisfied. For example, you may want to run it several different ways to compare versions, tell it to keep the same version and update specific areas, change the level of language for different readers, distill or elaborate. Be sure to check the outputs, as the same prompt may yield different results. Note that they can share a link if they want, or they can copy and paste into a word processing document.
  6. Explore Further. For more ideas on how to engage and refine work with Claude, se [link].

Suggestions

X (topic of the prompt) has been demonstrated to improve student learning through Y. Below are some recommendations for effective use of X (include 3-4).

Recommendation Phrase: Text.

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References

References in APA format

 

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