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Productivity with AI

AI productivity assistants may be able to help optimise your time and effort with classes, activity and your social life.

Ways they could help:

  • Create schedules to help structure your time.
  • Suggest structures for presentations to best optimise your allocated time
  • Review slides/ analyse the likely time it would take to read a specific script. 
  • Automate repetitive tasks like citations and grammar checks
  • Scan your to-do lists and suggest the most important or time-sensitive items to tackle first based on your goals.

Productivity with AI Examples

AI can assist in creating presentations, allowing you to focus your efforts on developing the best content.

It can provide recommendations for content and timing based on:

  • Presentation requirements
  • desired lengths
  • Key topics 

As you draft your presentation content, your chosen AI platform can scan through to identify areas that may require more explanation or streamlining to fit available speaking time. The AI can also highlight the most crucial points, allowing you to ensure that the core message comes across even if you have to cut back elsewhere.

AI can be your personal productivity assistant when it comes to staying on top of your studies by creating schedules.

AI platforms can create customised revision timetables as exam season approaches, factoring in your priorities and constraints, to keep you organised and on track.

You can even ask it to build in reminders and to adjust the plan if new commitments arise or if you get behind on certain tasks.

How AI is able to help with your repetitive tasks will be unique to you depending on what sort of tasks you typically have to handle regularly.

Examples:

  • Having AI take notes by transcribing content from lectures or seminars (or their own thoughts if they prefer to brainstorm aloud)
  • Using AI to ensure citations are managed correctly
  • Students who work with code generation may use systems like Copilot to automate repetitive, routine coding tasks (allowing programmers to focus their efforts on more complex, strategic parts of software projects).

Note: Code generators are not intended to wholly replace human programmers - developers must review and edit any generated code before implementation.

AI services can take your to-do list and help you sort through everything you need to get done.

By analysing factors like deadlines, estimated effort levels, and importance, an AI productivity assistant can provide suggestions on which tasks you should tackle first.

With an AI handling the organisation behind the scenes, you should be able focus your efforts on crossing things off your to-do list.

This streamlined productivity has the potential to reduce stress and ensure you meet key deadlines as a student, keeping you on track academically.

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Give it a Go!

Using ChatGPT, experiment with using AI as a tool for aiding productivity. 

 

Try one of these prompts:

'I have to give a 10 minute presentation for an interview on the benefits of teaching large lecture cohorts in higher education. Suggest 2/3 topics to cover and a breakdown of how to use my time.'

Input a list of tasks you need to complete over a day, weekend or week and ask ChatGPT to prioritise your list. Remember to give details for example, if any task has a deadline etc.

Copy and paste in your syllabus or content for a module. 'Create me flashcards to revise with on this content'

 

Remember to ask follow up questions!