Has anyone tried the idea of including visible GenAI instructions in assessment briefs so that if students want to upload the brief to a chatbot, it’ll be guided by certain pedagogically beneficial instructions?

I’m not talking about “don’t do the work on behalf of the students” type instructions (pointless) but instructions that save a student having to write their own custom prompt and actually benefits them.

I’m thinking this could be a good way to demonstrate AI literacy baked into a brief, and it signals trust in the students i.e. “feel free to use a chatbot for this assessment, here is one cool way to optimise the experience for you”.

I feel like there’s an equity angle here too. You build in a base level “good” use case for interacting with the brief using GenAI meaning that even those still struggling with AI literacy are given a helping hand.

Obviously I’m aware of the hidden instructions approach designed to catch students out (horrible) but this is pretty much the opposite of that.

Is this a thing? Did my brain fart out a useful idea or is this old news?

Paul Matthews Leon Furze Jason Gulya you guys came to mind.