Customizing ChatGPT for You and Your Students
This chapter walks the reader through the use of ChatGPT's "GPT" tool for creating custom AI agents--no coding required. ChatGPT isn't the only tool for doing this, but it is a popular tool. And strategies that work for ChatGPT (e.g. prompting, use of an agent-specific knowledge base) often translate to other tools.
Custom chatbots created with ChatGPT are called Custom GPTs or simply GPTs. Custom GPTs are easy to build because no coding is required. This functionality of building Custom GPTs is reserved for paid users. However, users without a paid subscription can now use Custom GPTs that others have created. This means that if you have the paid ChatGPT version, you can create Custom GPTs for your students to use even if they don’t have a paid account. Step-by-step instructions for building Custom GPTs can be found in Section 2 below, while examples are provided in Sections 3 and 4.