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The introductory video to this collection highlights the purposes behind developing transparent assignments, including increases to educational equity. The remaining resources help you get started and offer you concrete ways to continue to improve the transparency of your assignments.

There is much value in the traditional essay, but it’s not always the only, or even the best way to accomplish our teaching goals. Instructors have experimented with a wide range of alternatives to the take-home essay, a process that the advent of generative AI has only accelerated.

Can a syllabus do more than convey policies and schedules? This collection includes our favorite examples of syllabi that embrace creative, fun, or otherwise unconventional interpretations of the syllabus genre while still fulfilling the basic roles of syllabi. It ends with advice and commentary about adding visual (and other) elements to your syllabus.

Students appreciate clear guidance on which uses of generative AI are permitted in coursework, if any, and which are prohibited. The syllabus statements in this collection are examples that instructors can use as they set and communicate boundaries for student AI use that align with their course goals and teaching values.