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AI prompts

Prompt engineering is about asking the right clear and concise structured questions in order to obtain a clear focussed relevant response.

Prompts for productivity

What are productivity prompts?

Productivity involves making study or work more efficient through time management and organisational tools. Productivity prompts involve asking a GenAI tool for help with time, energy, planning, and focus.

Using productivity prompts as a student

As a university student, you face competing priorities that require your time and attention. Balancing work, family, social activities, and study can be challenging. Productivity prompts help you use GenAI tools to study efficiently. Whether you need help planning your study schedule, recommending study methods, outlining steps to achieve a goal, or preparing for assessments and exams, productivity prompts can assist.

GenAI can aid in organising your study, but its impact is greatest when you start planning early. To improve productivity, ask a series of questions to generate personalised and relevant outputs.

GenAI is a valuable tool to help you focus on what matters most throughout the semester.

Prompting in action

Study goals and plans

Effective time management is crucial for academic success. A well-structured study plan keeps you organised, reduces stress, and maximises learning. GenAI tools can help you create a personalised study plan by identifying achievable goals or formulating a week-by-week schedule.

To get useful guidance, provide the GenAI tool with clear prompts, including your context, needs, and specific information.

The following interactive contains examples of study goals and study plan prompting. 

Activity overview

This interactive image hotspot provides some examples on how GenAI tools can help you create a study plan and goals. Hotspots are displayed as plus (+) icons that can be clicked, to present the information.

Hotspot 1: Identifying study goals

Use GenAI to help formulate Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART) goals. Share your academic targets and ask for guidance in breaking them down into smaller, manageable tasks.

Example prompts

Check out these two example study goal prompts and outputs in ChatGPT:

Hotspot 2: Creating a study plan

Ask for suggestions to allocate study time for different units and recommendations for prioritising and managing your time effectively.

Provide the Gen AI tool with information about your requirements such as – Units of study, topics covered, anticipated workload for each unit, due dates for assessments and study time availability

Example prompt

Check out an example study plan prompt and output in ChatGPT.

Organising your study approach

Different study methods can improve learning and comprehension. These methods enhance productivity by focusing your efforts and providing ways to demonstrate your knowledge.

Here are some example prompts for study approaches.