Practical Guidance for Teaching with AI

What is SAGE

Strategies for AI-Guided Education

SAGE (Strategies for AI-Guided Education) helps higher education educators make practical, responsible decisions about generative AI. It is written for people who need to design a course, activity, assessment, or policy—not become AI specialists.

Treat AI output as a draft or input to professional judgment, not as an authority. Educators remain responsible for educational purpose, accuracy, student data, equitable access, and consequential decisions.

Start with what you need to do

I need to…	Start here
Decide whether AI is appropriate for a task	When to use generative AI
Check privacy, fairness, oversight, or EU governance	Responsible AI use
Set clear rules for a course or assignment	Setting course and assignment AI rules
Redesign an assessment for an AI-rich environment	Assessing learning in the age of AI
Create questions, rubrics, or feedback	Creating exam questions, creating rubrics, or providing feedback
Improve a prompt for a teaching task	The practical prompting pattern
Build students’ or educators’ AI competencies	AI competency pathway
Help students evaluate AI output	Teaching critical evaluation
Explore tutoring, writing, or simulations	Teaching and learning with AI

A useful order for new users

Use the short task checklist.
State what students should learn before choosing a tool.
Set and communicate the AI-use rules.
Test the activity with representative examples.
Review the evidence, student experience, accessibility, and unintended effects.

SAGE is an evolving resource. Pages that depend on changing evidence, policy, or technology include a review date and should always be read alongside local institutional guidance.