Teaching and Learning Welcome Back: Assessment in the Era of GPA and GenAI

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Welcome Back

You are invited to register for the Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) team's three hour in-person Welcome Back Event taking place in the Central Quad (CQ-008), Grangegorman on Friday 4th September, from 10am to 1pm.

The event is designed to assist lecturers to prepare for the new academic year, with a particular focus on designing assessments and assessment rubrics while considering the context shaped by Grade Point Average (GPA) bands and the availability of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to students and lecturers.

The event will an activity for staff related to the guidelines and support available for the new academic year relating to the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning. This will include an opportunity to provide input into the next version of the University guidelines on GenAI for Teaching and Learning.

For the second year in a row, the winners of the national Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning are from TU Dublin. The winning team of Hilda Burton, Trish Medcalf and Niamh Braiden will make a presentation on their successful project titled "Ireland's Call", implemented in partnership with the Civic Theatre in Tallaght.

The LTA Affiliate Panel for 2026-27 will be launched at this event. LTA Affiliates are lecturers from across the University who provide invaluable support to the LTA Team by providing advice and enabling connections into the Schools and Faculties across all our campuses.

The LTA Team are busy developing the new University Teaching and Learning website. This website will be a valuable source of information, guidance and advice to staff across TU Dublin. It will include guidance pages, information about our programmes, case studies and rich media resources such as our LTA in Conversation podcast series.

LTA are delighted to welcome Prof. Taha Yasseri to conclude the event with a presentation on how AI is shaping human behaviour, in education and elsewhere. Prof. Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society in Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin, and his presentation title is "A New Sociology of Humans and Machines".

We look forward to welcoming all staff to this event to kickstart the new academic year. Register here.

Schedule

The event will take place in CQ-007 in the Central Quad Building in Grangegorman from 10am to 1pm on Friday, 4th September 2026. The schedule for the day is as follows:

9:30am: Registration
10:00am: Opening Address and Welcome
10:10am: Activity on GenAI in Teaching and Learning and associated University guidelines
10:40am: Launch of Teaching and Learning Website and information about supports, events and activities for 2026-27.
10:50am: Presentation by winners of the Jennifer Burke Awards.
11:00am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:20am: Workshop: Assessment Design in the Era of GPA and GenAI
12:20pm: Keynote Presentation: “A new sociology of humans and machines”, Prof. Taha Yesseri
1:00pm: Launch of LTA Affiliate Panel and Closing Remarks

Workshop: Assessment Design in the Era of GPA and GenAI

An assessment rubric is an instrument used by lecturers to provide clear information to their students about what is expected of them in their assessment and how they will be graded. Assessment rubrics can be designed in Word or Excel, or using tools such as the embedded rubric tool in the Brightspace platform.

In designing a rubric, a lecturer will clearly describe how a student can achieve different levels of outcome for each of the criteria that will be used to assess them. Generally, a small number of levels would be created.

A robust rubric is the cornerstone of valid, accessible, and actionable feedback. But how do we maintain this standard while navigating the shift toward GPA-based assessment, and broader issues with learner feedback engagement?

This workshop invites you to rethink the rubric design process by using Generative AI as a "design partner" to rapidly prototype criteria using shared exemplar assessments, while also considering how to incorporate the AI Assessment Scale into the assessment design.

This workshop will move away from the high-level debate on AI impact and get into the "how-to" of using technology to enhance the quality of your assessment tools. We will also dedicate time to unpacking the nuances of the new GPA system, providing you with practical strategies to ensure your marking criteria remain both transparent and pedagogically sound.

Keynote Presentation

The keynote presentation will be delivered by Prof. Taha Yasseri, the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society in Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin, on the topic of "A New Sociology of Humans and Machines".

Presentation Abstract: A New Sociology of Humans and Machines

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how students learn, how educators teach, and how institutions think about knowledge, creativity, and assessment. In this lecture, Taha Yasseri will present a series of experiments examining how humans and machines interact in shared social environments. Using controlled studies, he investigated how humans and artificial agents compete, coordinate, negotiate, and make decisions together. The findings show that AI systems do not simply act as neutral tools; they change human behaviour, influence trust and cooperation, and shape collective outcomes in often unexpected ways. As AI systems become embedded in classrooms, workplaces, and everyday life, understanding the social dynamics of human–machine interaction becomes increasingly important for educators and students alike. The presentation will reflect on what these emerging dynamics may mean for teaching, learning, and the future role of universities in an AI-mediated society.

Speaker Biography

Taha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin.

He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College. Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

He has interests in the analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.