April IDIG Online Session
Creating Your Own AI Chatbot and Using it with Students, April 10 from 3-4 p.m.

Want to build your own AI chatbot for classroom use?
This hands-on session will show you how to set up AI-powered assistants for your classroom. Learn how these tools can enhance student engagement, provide personalized learning support, and streamline course interactions. We’ll also explore effective strategies to encourage students to use these chatbots to experience the most out of them.
What you’ll learn:
- Step-by-step process for creating custom educational chatbots
- Integration techniques for your existing learning environment
- Best practices for designing effective conversational flows
- Methods to align chatbot capabilities with curriculum goals
- Practical approaches to introduce chatbots to students
Benefits for your teaching:
- Save time on routine questions and feedback
- Provide 24/7 learning support for students
- Create opportunities for self-paced exploration
- Gather insights on common student challenges
- Foster digital literacy in an AI-powered world
Zoom Link to April 10 IDIG session.
If you have an interest in exploring best practices and useful tools for learning and assessment from colleagues, the IDIG group is for you! You can join this group to receive email notifications about upcoming meetings and events.
If you have an NC State unity account:
- Apply to join the group.
- Once you select the link, you will see a blue button at the top of the forum posts “Join group to post.”
- Select the “Join group to post” button.
- This will send a notification to the group owner (Daniel Davis), who needs to approve your application before you can participate in the IDIG group.
- After you’ve joined the IDIG group, you will get a confirmation email.
If you don’t have an NC State or Gmail account:
Please email Daniel Davis directly to be manually added to the IDIG group.