Welcome to our Nectir AI Community Forum! This is a fantastic place to introduce yourself, share a bit about your background, and connect with fellow instructors using Nectir AI.
To introduce yourself, consider answering the following questions:
What is your name and what subject(s) do you teach?
Which colleges do you teach at?
How are you currently using Nectir in your course?
What’s your favorite AI-related best practice, prompt, or teaching strategy? (Feel free to get creative! Share a fun story or an unexpected success you’ve had with AI in your classroom.)
Are you open to connecting with others? (Simply say “Yes” or “No” as you can always private message on this platform.)
What topics or areas are you interested in connecting with others about? (This could be anything from AI in education, teaching strategies, or even hobbies outside of work!)
After you’ve introduced yourself, take a moment to read through others’ introductions. React to their posts and feel free to comment or ask questions. Let’s make this a lively and supportive space for sharing ideas and best practices!
I teach instructors how to best leverage Nectir to scale student support, increase student engagement, and ultimately improve instruction and learning from students and faculty!
My new favorite prompt is adding an element of “double checking” before the AI responds to users. This strategy has been effective with ensuring the AI does a better job in following my directions at every response.
Yes, I would love to connect! I want to hear your most unfiltered user feedback.
Prompt:
Before every response, double-check that you have:
Accurately interpreted the question
Followed your directions for either course logistics or content questions
Not provided any direct answers, solutions, or examples for content questions. Instead, give concise, general steps for the user to apply, and always wait for the user to apply the steps. Do not use the information from the problem. Only when the user continues to struggle, give more detailed steps.
Used the provided directions for the specific discipline or topic
Hi! I am Francie Quaas-Berryman, and I teach English at Cerritos College.
I am currently using Nectir.AI (named- Quill) in my Critical Thinking class.
Right now, I am most interested in ideas for student engagement. My students don’t seem to be using the tool much. They did the introduction assignment, but then haven’t gone back. I need to do more to deliberately lead them to engage.
Steve Schessler, English, American Literature, College Composition, Composition and Critical Thinking
Cabrillo College
Nectir is assisting with assignment information and deadlines, support for course content information, and Socratic questions for better understanding the literary readings
How do I analyze poetry?
Yes
AI in education, supportive AI, assignment strategies
I’m Patrick Bungard from Crafton Hills College, teaching Business Communication, Human Relations, Public Speaking, and Interpersonal Communication.
I am offering Nectir AI (aka Patrickbot) as an extra credit assignments to really encourage usage. So far, though, only about a third have accepted it.
Yes I am open to connecting with others.
I’d love to see how others are encouraging their students to participate/engage with Nectir AI.
Hi all, my name is Luis Guerrero, I teach at Palomar College. I am a math instructor and also PD coordinator. I use NECTIR currently for our Math for liberal arts online class. Mainly to connect the content we see to students interest and majors. In other words use AI to answer the age old question in math classes: “when am I going to use this?”, now I have them research this for each unit in our class to great success.
I am John Wanko and I teach at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster CA. My main job is as a DSPS counselor. I teach two sections of a college success course (College and Life Management) and have integrated Nectir AI into my courses. I am very open to connecting with others!
Hi all! I’m Dawna DeMartini, and I teach English at Sacramento City College. I am using my AI assistant in my Advanced Comp/Critical Thinking course.
I’m open to connecting, esp. with other writing instructors!
Kenn PiersonGeiger from Rio Hondo College. I teach English and Literature. I am using the Nectir AI tool in one of two asynchronous online composition courses (ENGL 101). Getting constant feedback from students is important in learning how the tool functions.
Hi, I’m Sam Simmons. I teach Linguistics at Cypress College. I’m using Nectir in my course to help students with course information as well as subject info. Linguistics can be a tricky subject, so I wanted to see if using Nectir will help with students to understand the material as well as navigate the online environment better. I don’t have any best practices as I’m new, but I’m open to connecting. I think I’d be most interested in how to make and adjust prompts
My name is Lori Hokerson and I teach psychology at American River College (in Sacramento). I just launched my AI assistant last Friday so it’s still new to my students. I use AI a lot in my own work, but am still sorting through how to best utilize my AI assistant for my students. I am definitely open to connecting with others, to get ideas how to create a better tutor!
Hi, y’all! My name is Stephanie Tran, and I teach English at Cypress College. I’ve been using Nectir in my English 100 “College Writing” and English 104 “Critical Analysis and Literature” courses. We use Nectir to explore the writing process and practice critical AI literacy. I’m open to connecting with others to learn more about different ways to equitably and ethically integrate a human-centered approach to AI in the teaching of writing.
