ITPro 1: 2/2025

Tools for Academic successes

R Batzinger

2026-01-27

Overview

  • Working collaboratively

  • Collaborative Software: MS vs Google

  • Studying online:

    • Creating documents/assignments
    • Online Grading
    • Checking Grades

  • Online Search Tools:

    • Search engines: Google/Bing
    • GenAI: LLM / AI
    • Wikipedia

Assessing Course Work

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Microsoft Teams

  • Requires Microsoft Teams either online or installed.
  • Login using your Payap University account
  • Join the Team with the Class Code:
  • Go to Files and open the slides

Google Classroom

  • Requires a browser open to https://classroom.google.com
  • Open the (+) and enter the class code
  • Click on the inside the course button
  • Go to the course work tab
  • Go to the Files and open the slides

Google classroom

Handling Assignments

  • Research
  • Documentation and description of points to be made
  • Organization of Ideas
  • Drafting of the required product
  • Editing the final document
  • Delivering the assignment

The Basic Structure of Papers

  • TITLE: Name the document
  • AUTHORS: Student names and IDs
  • ABSTRACT: A concise summary
  • INTRODUCTION: Describe the problem / core issues and its context
  • METHODS: Describe the approach you will use to find a solution
  • RESULTS: Describe your findings / solution
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Suggest how your work can be applied and expanded upon
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY: List all the references used in your research


Creating documents

  • Text documents reports
  • Smart accounting paper
  • Slides and posters
  • General notes
  • Questionaires
  • Annotated diagrams

MS OFFICE ONLINE

GOOGLE DOCS

Checking out the course website

  • Announcements
  • Handouts
  • Supplemental material
  • Assignments
  • Grades
  • Online meetings
  • Tutorials

Collaboration in Groups

  • Form a diverse working group
  • Spend time planning the work together
  • Assemble the final product as a team
  • Submit and present the work together

Need for Collaborative Software

Group Discussion in Google Meet

Group Discussion in MS Teams

Collaboration in MS Teams

Assignment

  • Form a diverse working group
  • Spend time planning the work together
  • Assemble the final product as a team
  • Submit and present the work together

LMS – Learning Management System

Moodle - lms2.payap.ac.th

Canvas Instructure

Classroom Learning Management Systems

Classrooms

  • Fluid design
  • Information can easily get out of order
  • Key focus on group work but can monitor individual projects
  • Uses MS Teams/Google Meet for online meetings
  • Consistent with S&M International Enterprizes

LMS

  • Static structure design
  • Information held in rigid course design
  • Can handle hybrid classes, online or in-classroom instruction
  • Supports MOOC wihere mastery of basics is required before moving on
  • Supports webinars and other related media events

LLM: Large Language Models

  • Bing Chat: copilot.com - General Text and Image

  • Google: gemini.google.com - Text and software development

  • Claude: https://claude.ai - Communication of text and data

  • ChatGPT: Open AI https://chatgpt.com - Cutting edge LLM and agents

  • Grok: https://grok.com - Removal of social filters

  • Deepseek - 深度求索 https://www.deepseek.com - Small Chinese LLM

Activity : Creating ChatGPT prompts

Establish a context:

  • Generate ….

  • Tell me about ….

  • Imagine that ….

  • Act as if ….

  • Do you know about ….

Successful Chats with ChatGPT

  • Ask the model clear, precise and specific questions

  • Keep ChatGPT on Point

  • Be articulate

  • Be patient to build a tested context

  • Provide enough good information

  • Offer specific directions

Demonstration of the Editorial power pf LLM

  • Common spelling, word usage, and word order

  • Tone, rhyme and rhythm

  • Music, narration, animation and illustration

Dangers of genAI

  • AI Hallucinations: LLMs were not designed to be fact retrieval engines. They work by predicting the probability of the next word in a sequence. LLMs may produce outputs that are factually incorrect, nonsensical, or entirely fabricated.

  • Model Bias: LLMs are built using large bodies of text, often scraped from the Internet. This data contains bias that LLMs can learn and propagate. LLMs can give responses that are biased or disparaging or provide responses of worse quality for certain subgroups.

  • AI Privacy Concerns: LLMs can leak or inadvertently disclose personally identifiable information or other sensitive or confidential details.

  • Toxic, Harmful, or Inappropriate Content: LLMs are capable of creating toxic, harmful, violent, obscene, harassing, and otherwise inappropriate content.

  • AI Copyright Infringement And IP Risks: LLMs are often trained with copyrighted data and thus can generate content that is identical to or similar to copyrighted material. They can also leverage materials online such as a person’s tone or voice to create highly similar content to what that person might have generated.

  • Security Vulnerabilities: LLMs have increased the surface area for security risk. Feedback cycles create an identity and profile.

  • Dependance and reduction of discretion: The speed and general accuracy cloud judgement and reduce long term retention.

Assignment

  • Sign up for a team of 3
  • Undertake the challenge given in Assignment 1
  • Develop and submit your answer online by 11:59PM on 11 Feb 2026

Conclusion and Q&A




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