Experience embracing genAI in an engineering computations course: What went wrong and what next

Summary

Barba candidly describes a course chatbot and autograder enabling answer-seeking shortcuts.

Students combined generated answers with repeated autograder submissions. Demonstrations and verbal guidance did not produce the engagement she expected.

Her redesign moved graded practice into class, retaining AI access under observation and peer interaction.

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