--- title: "Preserving the Journey: Designing College Assignments to Promote Critical Thinking & AI Literacy" description: Join our live faculty session Sept 30 to learn how Learning Intelligence makes the student writing process visible, giving you confidence in authentic learning without added grading burden. image: https://resources.packback.co/hubfs/webinar-facultyLIP%20(2).png --- [![Packback](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Packback_May2021/images/logo_packback-full.png?width=900&name=logo_packback-full.png "Packback")](https://www.packback.co/) ✦ on-demand WEBINAR # Preserving the Journey: Designing College Assignments to Promote Critical Thinking & AI Literacy ## Register Now You can read a completed essay start to finish and still have no idea how the student got there. That problem is older than generative AI. Essays and exams were never a precise measure of learning, they were the best tool available at the time. AI just removed the last bit of cover, and now the polished submission tells you even less than it used to. Every workaround costs faculty something. "AI-proofing" an assignment buys a single semester. Detection produces accusations you have to defend. Blue books trade away everything else the course was supposed to build. This session walks through a different starting point: assume AI is in the room. Then, make the student's planning, reasoning, and revision visible while the work is happening so you have something real to teach into and grade against.   ### In this webinar, you’ll learn how to: 1. **Make The Student Learning Process Visible:** See the timeline of their initial outlines and draft revisions to source verifications so you evaluate authentic reasoning rather than guessing about an output. 2. **Reclaim Your Workload (and Weekends!):** Leverage built-in coaching that guides student mechanics and critical thinking in real-time before work is submitted, saving you hours on routine feedback. 3. **Implement Process-Based Grading Fast:** Build and deploy a process-visible activity using your existing LMS without needing to overhaul your entire course syllabus. 4. **Transition from AI Policing to Pedagogical Coaching:** Replace high-stress AI surveillance with transparent, auditable student effort signals that build classroom trust and protect academic integrity. ### **This webinar is for you if:** - You've already tried banning AI, detecting it, or redesigning around it, and none of it held up past a term. - You need a scalable, practical way to maintain assignment rigor across your courses without sacrificing your weekends to grading fatigue. - You'd rather have students using AI in the open, with their judgment on record, than hiding it. - You sit on a curriculum committee, coordinate multi-section courses, or want practical strategies to share with department leadership asking what to do about AI. Your students are writing with AI right now, whether or not your syllabus has an opinion about it. You can keep grading the artifact and guessing, or you can start seeing the work behind it. Bring one course to mind before you join, because you'll leave with a plan for it. **Live Attendee Bonus:** Attendees will receive exclusive access to our practical *Faculty Field Guide to Learning Intelligence* to help your department build a transparent, process-focused assessment strategy. [Access On-Demand Webinar](https://resources.packback.co/grading-the-journey#top) ## **Meet Your Hosts** ![Kristyn\_Headshot\_Square](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Kristyn_Headshot_Square.png?width=150&height=150&name=Kristyn_Headshot_Square.png "Kristyn_Headshot_Square") **Dr. Kristyn Muller Mirasol | Speaker** Senior Product Manager @ Packback  Dr. Kristyn Muller Mirasol is a Senior Product Manager at Packback, where she leverages her ten years of experience in higher education to drive evidence-based product innovation focused on supporting student success. Previously, she served as a Product Manager at Anthology and the Impact Analyst for SUNY Online. Kristyn holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership, where her research focused on the efficacy of reflective learning practices. ![maela-mead\_headshot](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/maela-mead_headshot.jpeg?width=150&height=150&name=maela-mead_headshot.jpeg "maela-mead_headshot") **Maela Mead | Speaker** Product Manager @ Packback  A Product Manager at Packback, Maela Mead draws on six years in educational technology, starting in customer success before moving into product, where she champions pedagogy-first, student-centered design. She is committed to building technology that supports social learning and strengthens the relationship between educators and students.. ![michelle-barton\_headshot](https://resources.packback.co/hs-fs/hubfs/michelle-barton_headshot.png?width=150&height=150&name=michelle-barton_headshot.png "michelle-barton_headshot") **Dr. Michelle Barton | Expert in Chat** Senior Experience Manager, Packback  Dr. Michelle Barton is a former professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University. After using Packback in her own courses, she joined the team and has spent nearly four years supporting hundreds of faculty members implementing the platform. Michelle brings a unique perspective by combining firsthand teaching experience with a deep understanding of Packback's pedagogical foundations and diverse course implementation strategies. 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